Sunday, June 17, 2012

2012 Glastonbury Pilgrimage

June 17, 2012 Featured News

17/6/2012 The British Orthodox Church After a pause last year, the Glastonbury Pilgrimage resumed its annual commemoration at Glastonbury Abbey this year on 16 June. Abba Seraphim was the Orthodox celebrant in the morning in the abbey’s undercroft, assisted by Father Simon Smyth, Deacon John Stuart, Subdeacons Paul Ashdown and Daniel Malyon and Readers Anthony-Paul [...]

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DNA bolsters Bulgaria’s John the Baptist bones claim

June 17, 2012 Featured News
A Bulgarian East-Orthodox priest holds up a box containing bones, believed to be the relics of John the Baptist, in front golden-domed “Alexander Nevski” cathedral in Sofia, November 12, 2010. The bones, discovered earlier this year in excavation works in the town of Sozopol on the Black Sea coast, will be displayed in “Alexander Nevski” cathedral for several days. REUTERS/Oleg Popov

Estelle Shirbon Reuters 17/6/2012 LONDON (Reuters) – Bulgaria’s claim to have unearthed six bones belonging to John the Baptist has received a boost from scientists who have concluded after dating them and analyzing their genetic code that they could indeed be relics of the man who baptized Jesus. A Bulgarian East-Orthodox priest holds up a [...]

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Declaration of the Metropolis of Moldova, on the adoption of the Law ensuring equality

June 17, 2012 News

May, 2012 The Orthodox Church of Moldova We consider that the adoption by the Parliament of the Law ensuring equality is a defying action going against Christian moral norms. Repeated appeals of the Metropolis of Moldova, made by both clergymen and lay believers to the authorities of the country, so as to exclude the notion [...]

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Orthodox Celebrations of the Border Guard Holiday

June 17, 2012 News

Polish Orthodox Church Maria Nalewajko 28.05.2012 Orthodox celebrations of the Border Guard holiday were organized in Siemiatycze. On May 13 dean of the Border Guard within the Orthodox Military Ordinariate of the Polish Army organized the Orthodox celebration of the Border Guard. The ceremony began with the Orthodox Church liturgy. Orthodox Ordinary of the Military [...]

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Bishop Jerzy Elected Deputy Vice Chancellor

June 17, 2012 News

May, 2012 Polish Orthodox Church On 10th May bishop Prof. Jerzy (Pańkowski) has been elected deputy vice chancellor for student affairs at Christian Theological Academy (ChAT) in Warsaw. During voting by secret ballot at university senate meeting twenty electors has chosen a vice chancellor and two deputy vice chancellors. New vice chancellor and deputy vice [...]

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Egypt: Gutted Church Building Leaves Copts With Debt

June 17, 2012 News

14/6/2012 Wayne King A hasty, inadequate renovation of a church building that Salafi Muslims largely gutted a year ago has left the congregation with staggering debt from additional repairs, church members said. Waiting inside the main hall of the Virgin Mary Church in Imbaba, Cairo on Sunday (June 10), a woman looked at the woodwork [...]

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Residency of the Artsakh Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church opened in Stepanakert

June 17, 2012 News

16/6/2012 On June 16 President of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic Bako Sahakyan participated in the solemn opening ceremony of the residency of the Artsakh Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church in capital Stepanakert. The President noted that the opening of the residency in the capital would play a great role in the spiritual development of [...]

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Administration of Malatia owns Armenian Church

June 17, 2012 Featured News

14/06/2012 The authorities of Turkish province of Malatia have bought the land where Armenian Church of Tachoro is located, Turkish news site Sondakika said. It’s reported that the church is now being reconstructed, and the activities are planned to last till 2013. The church located in the block Cavusoglu (Hrant Dink’s birthplace) was sold in [...]

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Discussions on Armenian Genocide started in Knesset

June 17, 2012 News

YEREVAN, JUNE 12, ARMENPRESS: In Israeli Parliament –Knesset on June 12 have been organized discussions relating to Armenian Genocide issue. Armenpress reports citing Izrus news portal that during the discussions deputy Dov Hanin who represents “Khadash” party has mentioned that in the context of Armenian Genocide any numbers or state security issues must not be [...]

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Basilica News Agency Four Years Since Setting Up

June 17, 2012 Featured News

Romanian Orthodox Church On 16 June 2012, Basilica News Agency of the Romanian Patriarchate celebrates four years of existence. The role of Basilica News Agency of the Romanian Patriarchate is to present, as news and press documents the institutions, the activity and attitudes of the Romanian Orthodox Church on various topical issues. The selection and [...]

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Meeting Related to the Cathedral of the Nation’s Salvation at the Patriarchal Palace

June 17, 2012 News

Romanian Orthodox Church On 15 June 2012, the working session of the builders of the Cathedral of the Nation’s Salvation with representatives of the Romanian Patriarchate took place at the Patriarchate Palace. His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel was also present. “Today, BOG’ART firm presented the technological project of the works to be done for underground 3, [...]

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Ten years suffering for Christ

June 17, 2012 Featured News

Orthodox Archbishopric of Ohrid 17/6/2012 In the United States of America, the internet site “Free Archbishop Jovan” (see here) which informs the English speaking public about the state persecution on religious grounds in R. Macedonia, targeted against Archbishop Jovan of Ohrid, the Bishops, clergy, monasticism and faithful people of the canonical Church in our fatherland, [...]

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His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch attends inauguration of the President of Serbia Tomislav Nikolic

June 17, 2012 News

12/6/2012 His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch attended yesterday, on June 11, 2012 on the occasion of the inauguration of the President of Serbia Tomislav Nikolic. The reception at the building of the Presidency of Serbia was also attended by His Grace Bishop Irinej of Backa and His Grace Bishop Atanasije of Hvosno, vicar of Serbian [...]

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Address of the Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church to Ukrainian community in connection with holding Euro-2012 in Ukraine

June 17, 2012 News

12/6/2012 This year our country has the honor to host the European Football Championship. This is certainly an event that reveals the overall culture of our society. In particular, the ability to meet guests, to organize thousands of events, to present cultural and historical values ​​of our State. We hope that the guests of Ukraine [...]

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Orthodox priest met in Ukraine with families of hostages held captive in Libya

June 17, 2012 News

12/6/2012 Soon after his return from Libya coworker of the Department for External Church Relations of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church Archpriest Zechariah Kerstyuk met in Ukraine with the relatives of the prisoners, who are held captive by Libyan rebels for more than nine months. During the meeting, archpriest Zechariah told them about his meeting with [...]

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Church leaders to deliver anti-gay marriage letters

June 17, 2012 News

LEESHA MCKENNY 16/6/2012 LEADERS of Sydney’s major Christian churches will make a coordinated appeal against same-sex marriage straight from the pulpit this weekend in a bid to rally opposition before the federal parliamentary vote. Statements from Anglican, Catholic and Greek Orthodox church leaders will be read out or distributed at services, stressing the need to [...]

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Metropolitan Mar Seraphim launches Kidney Foundation of Bengaluru Diocese

June 17, 2012 News

Indian Malankara Orthodox Church Liju Cherian in Sultanate of Oman 17/6/2012 Metropolitan Mar Seraphim launches Kidney Foundation of Bengaluru Diocese,a unique project of Indian Malankara Orthodox Church # Holy Episcopal Synod to tackle kidney ailments on a war footing as ‘mission’ of the church # Indian Orthodox dioceses urged to implement them in each parish [...]

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Bulgarian Church Condemns Upcoming Gay Parade

June 17, 2012 News

14/6/2012 The Holy Synod of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church has expectedly condemned the Sofia Pride gay parade planned for June 30 in the capital. In an official statement, the Holy Synod claims that “homosexuality is an unnatural passion that undoubtedly harms the personality, the family and the society.” The Bulgarian Orthodox Church declares that it [...]

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