Monday, July 9, 2012

Metropolitan Jonah tenders resignation

July 9, 2012 Featured News

SYOSSET, NY [OCA] 8/7/2012 In a letter addressed to the members of the Holy Synod of Bishops dated Friday, July 6, 2012, His Beatitude, Metropolitan Jonah tendered his resignation as Primate of the Orthodox Church in America. His Beatitude composed and signed the letter at his residence in Washington, DC, in the presence of Archpriest [...]

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Christians form fraternity

July 9, 2012 News

Daily News Egypt 8/7/2012 Activists from Egypt’s Coptic Christian minority have moved to buffer the rise of political Islam, particularly the Muslim Brotherhood, by establishing their own group – the Christian Brotherhood. The idea of a Christian Brotherhood group was formulated in 2005 as Islamist groups became more prominent in public life. Political analyst Michel [...]

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Coptic Egyptian minister denies VP offer by Mursi

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By JOANNA PARASZCZUK 9/7/2012 Christian Tourism Minister dismisses fears an Islamist president could harm tourism. Egypt’s minister of tourism, Mounir Fakhry Abdel Nour, denied on Sunday that newly elected president Mohamed Mursi has offered him the role of vice president. Abdel Nour, a Coptic Christian politician and secretary-general of Egypt’s secular, nationalist and liberal New [...]

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Orthodox Church enjoys triple celebration

July 9, 2012 News

By Rick Cousins Contributor 7/7/2012 GALVESTON — History isn’t really linear. Instead, it is marked by inflection points. These are places in time when the world seems to pivot around one moment, one person or one decision. October A.D. 312 is one of these most singular moments. It was then, according to traditional teaching, when [...]

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Greek Orthodox Church Stance on the “God Particle”

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7/7/2012 Areti Kotseli The Metropolitan of Messinia Chrysostomos expressed his opinion over the discovery of the so-called “God particle” that astonished the whole world during the past days, clearly drawing a line between science and religion. “I consider every comparison between the CERN experiment for the determination of the Higgs boson and the church’s approach [...]

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“OUR CLERGY ARE WHOLLY COMMITTED TO SERVE OUR CHURCH AND PEOPLE” Said Aram I on the occasion of the 17th anniversary of his election and consecration

July 9, 2012 Featured News

On Sunday, 1 July 2012, during the Holy Liturgy, special thanksgiving prayers were offered to thank the Almighty for the 17 years of Spiritual guidance, leadership and service of His Holiness Aram I as Catholicos of Cilicia. At the end of the Holy Liturgy, the Catholicos received the members of the clergy and the faithful [...]

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Man Has an Infinite Value for God

July 9, 2012 News

On 8 July 2012, His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church delivered a sermon at the summer chapel of the Patriarchal Residence, in which he explained the significance of the evangelical pericope of the 5th Sunday after the Pentecost, Matthew 8:28-34 and 9:1, which refers to the healing of the demonised people in [...]

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The Working Session of the Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church

July 9, 2012 News

The Press Office of the Romanian Patriarchate informs us: On 5 July 2012, the working session of the Romanian Orthodox Church took place in the Synodal Room of the Patriarchal Residence under the chairmanship of His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel. We mention some of the decisions taken and issues analysed: -the continuation of the social programmes [...]

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Constitutive session of the Commission of the Holy Assembly of Bishops for revision of the Constitution of the Serbian Orthodox Church

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5/7/2012 On Monday, July 2, 2012 at the Patriarchate, the constitutive session of the Commission of the Holy Assembly of Bishops for revision of the Constitution of the Serbian Orthodox Church. The Holy Assembly of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church with its decision of June 16, 2011 formed the Commission for revision of the [...]

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Patriarch Irinej meets participants of the Days of Cyrillic Alphabet

July 9, 2012 News

4/7/2012 His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch received on Saturday, June 30, 2012 the most successful participants of the competition of the Days of Cyrillic Alphabet, their parents, teachers and small hosts, members of the art ensamble “Aca Obradovic” from Bavaniste. Addressing the guests, Patriarch Irinej stressed that it is necessary to preserve religion, language and [...]

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Cultural treasure of the Serbs of Dubrovnik at the Archive of Serbia

July 9, 2012 News

2/7/2012 The Serbian church municipality in Dubrovnik, Archive of Serbia and the National Library of Serbia mutually prepared an exhibition The Culture of Serbs in Dubrovnik 1790-2010, from the Treasury of the Serbian Orthodox church of Holy Annunciation, which was opened at the Archive of Serbia. The exhibition represents a crown of the multi-year effort [...]

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Khabarovsk churches will distribute pamphlets about Orthodoxy in Chinese

July 9, 2012 Featured News

9/7/2012 The Chinese Autonomous Orthodox Church English translation by Katherine Ilachinski In Khabarovsk, they printed 1,000 copies of pamphlets in Chinese, which outline the basic teachings of the Orthodox Faith. These leaflets will be available in parishes, which are often visited by tourists from China. It is also planned to distribute them among the migrant [...]

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First celebration at a church in Lisbon recently transferred to Moscow Patriarchate

July 9, 2012 News

3/7/2012 On June 30, 2012, Bishop Nestor of Chersonese celebrated the Divine Liturgy at the church of St. Felix in Lisbon. The church was handed over to Orthodox Christians living in the Portuguese capital for limitless and free use by the Patriarchate of Lisbon of the Roman Catholic Church, the website of the Diocese of [...]

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Syria lost 50 thsd Christians – State Duma MP

July 9, 2012 News

Moscow, July 5, Interfax – About 50 thousand Christians have been killed or exiled from the country – such figures were unofficially voiced by a diplomat returned from Syria, the chairman of State Duma Committee on Constitutional Legislation and State Building Vladimir Pligin said. “I haven’t managed to check the figure,” Pligin said at a [...]

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