Monday, July 2, 2012

In Memoriam: Archpriest Peter Gillquist

July 2, 2012 Featured News

2/7/2012 Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of North America Fr. Peter E. Gillquist, a retired clergyman of the Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of North America, fell asleep in the Lord last night at the age of seventy-three. Born into a Lutheran family, the future priest went on after university to become a full-time staff member of the Evangelical [...]

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Monastic life in the Judean Wilderness

July 2, 2012 Featured News

Daniel Peterson By William Hamblin and Daniel Peterson religion@desnews.com 1/7/2012 From the fourth through the seventh centuries A.D., a form of Christian religious devotion flourished in Palestine known as desert monasticism. From the fourth through the seventh centuries A.D., a form of Christian religious devotion flourished in Palestine known as desert monasticism. Drawing upon biblical [...]

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Kenyan churches attacked by gunmen, grenades, killing 17

July 2, 2012 Featured News

2/7/2012 NAIROBI // Gunmen killed at least 17 people and wounded 40 in gun and grenade attacks on two churches yesterday, Kenyan security officials said. Police commander Philip Ndolo said the bloodiest attack was on the African Inland Church in Garissa, a town about 195 kilometres west of the Somali border. Attackers threw two grenades [...]

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Mursi faces challenge to bring Egypt’s Copts on side

July 2, 2012 News

2/7/2012 BBC One of the toughest challenges that will face Egypt’s new President, Mohammed Mursi, will be relations with the country’s Coptic Christian community. In the presidential run-off election, Copts, who make up about 10% of the population, voted overwhelmingly for Mr Mursi’s rival, former Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq, motivated by concerns about having an [...]

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Istanbul Armenian is buried in accordance with Islamic rites

July 2, 2012 News

1/7/2012 ISTANBUL. – Another news item published in Istanbul’s Agos Armenian bilingual weekly is widely covered by the Turkish press. According to the news article, in order to organize the funeral service of Istanbul Armenian Harutyun Kambarizoglu who died at the age of 87, the Surp Garabet Armenian Church of Istanbul had asked for …

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Armenians of Old Crimea to mark transfiguration of Christ

July 2, 2012 News

2/7/2012 The third pilgrimage-festival devoted to the feast of Transfiguration of Jesus—also known as “Vardavar” among Armenians—will be held on July 12-15 in Old Crimea, Ukraine, Analitika.at.ua informs, quoting Primate of the Ukrainian Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church, Crimea’s abbot, Father Hayrik Hovhannisyan. Along the lines of the event, …

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‘Lights off’ plan aims to boost Mt Sinai visitor numbers

July 2, 2012 Featured News

South Sinai town to turn off lights during full moon so tourists can enjoy moonlit climbs up Mount Sinai. Ahram Online 1/7/2012 Saint Catherine, a nature reserve and eco-friendly town in South Sinai, will turn off its light during the full moon in order to attract tourists to Mount Sinai. On the 13th, 14th and [...]

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Armenia’s national airline resuming flights to Syria on request from the Catholicos

July 2, 2012 News

Yerevan, June 29, Interfax – Armenia’s national airline, Armavia, is due to resume on July 2 regular flights to Aleppo, a Syrian city where the majority of the Arab country’s ethnic Armenian community lives, after suspending them in March due to due to the domestic political crisis in Syria, company spokeswoman Nana Avetisova said. “In [...]

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An Insight into the Greek-Orthodox Community of Jordan

July 2, 2012 Featured News

By Irene Archos 1/7/2012 The saying, “Opou geis, kai patris,” is a familiar one attesting to the Greek spirit of seeking out fortune and adapting to many foreign soils. But as evidenced by the Greek community of Madaba, Jordan, not only can Greeks simply exist in foreign lands, they usually prosper. At the heart of [...]

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Russian Orthodox Church Spokesman Slams Abortions

July 2, 2012 News

2/7/2012 Russian Orthodox Church spokesman Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin has sharply criticized abortions, comparing them to Holocaust, and has said he hopes Russians will consider them unacceptable. “Abortions are the most terrible Holocaust in humanity’s life,” said Chaplin, who led a rally and a prayer against abortions and homosexual propaganda in downtown Moscow’s Gogolevsky Boulevard on [...]

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