July 2012

Syria: Orthodox Christians Wary of Their Future in Post-Assad Regime

July 31, 2012 Featured News

31/7/2012 Joyce Hackel Syria’s Christian minorities are facing increasing dangers, especially in the city of Aleppo. The country’s estimated 1.5 million Christians are being targeted for attack and blamed for assisting a brutal regime. Mar Gregorios Yohana Ibrahim, the Archbishop of Aleppo tells host Aaron Schachter about the competing pressures Orthodox Christians face as they [...]

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US Diplomat visits Halki

July 31, 2012 Featured News

31/7/2012 The Ecumenical Patriarchate On July 30, 2012, United States assistant Secretary of State Philip Gordon visited the holy monastery and theological school of Halki. In conversation with Metropolitan Elpidophoros of Bursa, Mr. Gordon expressed the interest of the United States in the seminary’s re-opening. Furthermore, he conveyed Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s warm greetings [...]

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Bishop to tell Copts to immigrate

July 31, 2012 News

31/7/2012 Coptic Christian Bishop Paul of Tanta will tell Copts to leave Egypt if the Church is not guaranteed religious jurisdiction. Bishop Paul, a representative of the Coptic Orthodox Church in the Constituent Assembly, is also threatening to leave the Assembly if Article II is not modified to his liking. Bishop Paul wants the contentious [...]

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Patriarch Kirill celebrates the memory of St. Vladimir at Kiev Monastery of the Caves

July 31, 2012 Featured News

  On July 28, 2012, the commemoration day of the Holy Prince Vladimir Equal-to-the-Apostles and the Day of the Baptism of Russia, a national holiday in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia celebrated the Divine Liturgy at the Kiev-Caves Laura of the Holy Dormition. By the Russian Orthodox [...]

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Patriarch Kirill honours memory of Great Patriotic War soldiers and victims of the 1930s mass starvation

July 31, 2012 News

On July 28, 2012, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia visited the Memorial of Eternal Glory at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Kiev and the memorial to the victims of the 1930s mass starvation. His Holiness laid wreaths at the memorials and said a prayer for the repose of ‘the [...]

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Patriarch Kirill meets with Ukrainian President Victor Yanukovich

July 31, 2012 News

In the evening of July 28, 2012, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia and Ukrainian President Victor Yanukovich had a talk at the presidential residence in the Crimea. Mr. Yanukovich noted with satisfaction that the large-scale celebrations held by Local Orthodox Churches to mark the Day of the Baptism of Russia and [...]

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Metropolitan Hilarion: Our love of God is tested beyond the church walls

July 31, 2012 News

On July 29, the commemoration way of the Holy Fathers of the Six Ecumenical Councils, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations, celebrated the Divine Liturgy at the church of Our Lady the Joy to All the Afflicted in Moscow. After the liturgy, Metropolitan Hilarion delivered the following [...]

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Metropolitan Yakob Mar Irenaios calls for govt intervention to tackle issue of migrants

July 31, 2012 News

Liju Cherian 31/7/2012 # Migrant population needs special attention, pastoral care, counselling # New avenues and possibilities of mobility have proved to be a catalyst # Migrants’ have strength to harvest land but cannot influence legislation # ‘We are all migrants on this earth’ since we come from God and return to Him # Enlightened [...]

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The Son of the Prime Minister of Kenya is Baptized Orthodox

July 30, 2012 Featured News

30/7/2012 Patriarchate of Alexandria and All Africa Metropolitan Makarios of Kenya received about a month ago into the Orthodox Church the first-born son of Prime Minister Raila Odinga, Fidel Castro Odinga (named after the Cuban revolutionary leader), who was accompanied by his then future wife Lwam Getachew Bekele who is half Eritrean and half Ethiopian. [...]

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Muslim Persecution of Christians: June 2012

July 30, 2012 Featured News

Raymond Ibrahim 30/7/2012 U.S.-backed rebels are committing Christian genocide in Syria, where they are sacking churches and issuing threats that all Christians will be cleansed from rebel-held territory. A mass exodus of thousands of Christians is taking place, even as mainstream Western reporters like Robert Fisk demonize those same Christians for being supportive of the [...]

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And How Muslims Hold the Key to Christ

July 30, 2012 Featured News

29/7/2012 Pierre Klochendler JERUSALEM, Jul 29 2012 (IPS) – “A prayer knocks till the door opens,” a songster from the Church of the Holy Sepulchre sings from outside the door. Inside the Church, Abuna Nicholas, the Greek monk on duty, limps towards the door, crosses himself along the Stone of Unction where tradition says Jesus’s [...]

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Sunni Rebels Occupying Churches, Homes of Syrian Christians

July 30, 2012 Featured News

30/7/2012 www.worldnewstribune.com Assyrian International News Agency LONDON — The Vatican has determined that Sunni rebels were targeting the Christian community in Syria. The Vatican has received reports deemed credible that Sunni rebels financed by Qatar were attacking churches and ordering Christians to leave their homes. The reports, which stemmed from leading Catholic clerics, said the [...]

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Armenian Church in Erzrum has turned into stable

July 30, 2012 News

28/7/2012 YEREVAN, JULY 28, ARMENPRESS: They do not stop in Turkey to eliminate Armenian historical-cultural monuments in Turkey one after another. Armenpress reports calling Turkish Haberler.com that Armenian Church in Azizie district of Erzrum is used by Turks as a stable. About the poor condition of the Church warned local citizens. The church which is [...]

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Catholicos Aram I: We must support Armenians of Syria

July 30, 2012 News

29/7/2012 Catholicos Aram I of the Great House of Cilicia of the Armenian Apostolic Church continues to be in contact with the clergy members of Syria’s Armenian community and to follow their activities, press service of the Great House of Cilicia informs. Learning about the financial difficulties of some Syrian-Armenia families, the Catholicos allocated money [...]

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The Assyrian Genocide By Ottoman Turkey

July 30, 2012 Featured News

By Hermiz Shahen Family World News Assyrian International News Agency Assyrians are the indigenous people of Iraq, Turkey, Iran, Syria and Lebanon. , who have a history that spans over 7000 years. Today’s Assyrians are the descendants of the ancient Assyrian Empire that was one of the earliest civilizations to emerge in Mesopotamia. The Assyrian [...]

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Tenth Enthronement Anniversary of Catholicose Baselious Thomas 1st

July 30, 2012 Featured News

Syrian Orthodox Church in India 30/7/2012 On Friday the 26th July 2002, His Holiness the Patriarch of Antioch & all the East Moran Mor Ignatius Zakka-I Iwas, consecrated the 73-year old Mor Dionysius Thomas as the CATHOLICOS with the title ‘BASELIOS THOMAS I’ at a solemn function held at the St. Peter & St. Paul [...]

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Myrtle Beach site of 86th national FOCA convention

July 30, 2012 News

MYRTLE BEACH, SC [FOCA] 30/7/2012 The Fellowship of Orthodox Christians in America [FOCA] will hold it’s 86th annual National Convention at the Embassy Suites here August 29 through September 3, 2012. The convention will be hosted by the FOCA’s New Jersey District. One need not be a member of the FOCA to attend. In addition [...]

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British Cypriots look forward to free Orthodox school

July 30, 2012 News

Poly Pantelides 29/7/2012 FOR THE first time in Britain, a free Greek Orthodox secondary school has been given the go-ahead to open its doors in September next year, aiming to meet high academic standards while providing the Cypriot community in the UK with a strong Orthodox element within school. “St Andrew the Apostle is based [...]

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Ukraine Sees Revival of Orthodox Christianity

July 30, 2012 Featured News

By Milena Faustova 30/7/2012 Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill, who was staying in Kiev earlier this week, thanked the Ukrainian clergy for efforts made to maintain unity in the Church. He also praised the Ukrainian branch of the Orthodox Church for its contribution into the revival of Orthodox Christianity in the republic in [...]

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The Patriarch of Romania at the Celebration of the Saint Patron’s Day of Techirghiol Monastery

July 28, 2012 News

28/7/2012 On Friday, 27 July 2012, His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of Romania was present at the celebration of the saint patron day of Saint Maria – Techirghiol, patriarchal stavropighia. In the sermon delivered, the Patriarch of Romania showed that Saint Great Martyr Pantelimon represents a model of mercy and kindness for all those who suffer. [...]

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UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon visits Decani Monastery and Cathedral church of St. George in Prizren

July 28, 2012 Featured News

28/7/2012 Serbian Orthodox Church Serbian Province of Kosovo and Metohia Decani – UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon with his spouse and associates visited on Tuesday, July 24, 2012 within his one-day visit to Kosovo and Metohia the Decani Monastery. The distinguished guest was welcomed by heugomen of the monastery archimandrite Sava with hieromonk Petar and [...]

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Orthodox Youth Fest on Golija

July 28, 2012 News

26/7/2012 Serbian Orthodox Church The First Orthodox Youth Fest on Golija organized on July 24, 2012at the newly consecrated monastery of St. Sava, gathered a large number of boys and girls from Herzegovina and Niksic. The Holy Hierarchal Liturgy, with the blessing of the competent bishop – His Grace Bishop Joanikije of Budimlje-Niksic, was held [...]

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Monastery of Veselinje: Serbian Patriarch Irinej consecrates memorial church in glory and honour of the Glamoc hieromartyrs

July 28, 2012 News

Serbian Orthodox Church On Sunday, 7th after the Pentecost, on July 22 2012, on the day of the memory of hieromartyrs of Glamoc Sima and Mirko, hieromartyr Pancratius and Saint Theodor, His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch, upon the invitation of His Grace Bishop Hrizostom of Bihac-Petrovac came to the monastery of Veselinje in the village [...]

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Prayerful remembrance of Patriarch Varnava Rosic

July 28, 2012 News

25/7/2012 Serbian Orthodox Church His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch served today in the church of Saint Sava on Vracar the memorial service to Serbian Patriarch Varnava Rosic of blessed repose, the great confessor of the Orthodox faith, who died on this day in 1937. After it, a collection of works and a documentary film entitled [...]

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Russia Russian Orthodox Church To Clarify Stance on Tsar Family Remains

July 28, 2012 News

(RIA Novosti) 26/7/2012 The Russian Orthodox Church is planning to clarify its position regarding the recognition of the remains of Tsar Nicholas II and his family members who were murdered by the Bolsheviks shortly after the Russian Revolution, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia said on Thursday. Addressing members of the Holy Synod in [...]

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