Friday, July 27, 2012

The Coptic Church announces voter list

July 27, 2012 Featured News

Basil El-Dabh 26/7/2012 The Coptic Orthodox Church has revealed the list of voters who will select the 118th Pope of Alexandria The Coptic Church has announced that the selection process for the Pope will yield its final results in November, at which point the successor to Pope Shenouda III will be announced. The current field [...]

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Syria’s Christians cautious in conflict

July 27, 2012 News

26/7/2012 By Paul Wood BBC News, near Zabadani, Syria “Oh Bashar’s mother,” they chant, “your husband’s being fried in hell. You and your son are following too.” The men are in good spirits. They have been driven back from the capital, but their offensive did better than anyone expected. And they are preparing for another [...]

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The birth of a divine Emperor

July 27, 2012 News

Jamesford 23/7/2012 Tafari Makonnen was born on this day in 1892. In 1930 would assume the throne of Ethiopia as the Emperor Haile Selassie I. Through the vagaries of mysterious karma, and possibly at least in part to the royal family’s claim to be descendent from the biblical Queen of Sheba and King Solomon, he [...]

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Archbishop Demetrios of America: “The Greek-American Community Will Continue to Help Greece”

July 27, 2012 News

Stella Tsolakidou 26/7/2012 “The Greek-American community will continue to help Greece and its people,” underscored Archbishop Demetrios of America during his meeting with a delegation from the Holy Archdiocese of Athens in NY. The Primate of the Greek Orthodox Church of America noted that in light of the estimated long duration of the crisis, the [...]

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Still no justice for 14 Serb farmers murdered in Kosovo

July 27, 2012 Featured News

Beta, Tanjug 25/7/2012 BELGRADE — The families of 14 Serb farmers shot and killed in Kosovo 13 years ago are remembering their loved ones, awaiting for their killers to be brought to justice. The 14 Serbs were ambushed and killed as they were harvesting their fields on July 23, 1999, in the village of Staro [...]

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Worldview: Copts in Egypt are watching and worrying

July 27, 2012 News

Samia Sidhom , managing editor of Watani, a newspaper for Egypt’s Coptic Christians, in her Cairo office. “There is a feeling that democracy has been a disaster for us,” she says. TRUDY RUBIN / Staff Trudy Rubin, Inquirer Opinion Columnist 26/7/2012 Among the biggest losers from the current Arab political upheavals are the Christian minorities [...]

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Topless woman “confronts” Patriarch Kirill in Kyiv

July 27, 2012 News

26/7/2012 Naked attacks are, of course, harder to defend against as a gun can be found on someone’s person. A naked assailant, though, is just a clothed person who can undress quickly. It is also worth noting that the news article seemingly ignored the words KILL KIRILL written on the woman’s back. So if you [...]

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Regular session of the Russian Orthodox Church’s Holy Synod begins at the Laura of the Caves in Kiev

July 27, 2012 News

On 26 July 2012, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia arrived in the capital of Ukraine and proceeded to the Holy Assumption Laura of the Caves in Kiev. He was met at the Near Caves by His Beatitude Metropolitan Vladimir of Kiev and All Ukraine and brethren of the monastery. A regular [...]

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His Holiness Patriarch Kirill meets with Ukrainian Prime Minister Nikolai Azarov

July 27, 2012 News

On 26 July 2012, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia arrived in the capital of Ukraine and proceeded to the Holy Assumption Laura of the Caves. Greeting His Holiness at the Near Caves were His Beatitude Metropolitan Vladimir of Kiev and All Ukraine and brethren of the monastery. His Holiness met with [...]

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His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia begins his primatial visit to Ukraine

July 27, 2012 Featured News

26/7/2012 His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia arrived in Ukraine on July 26, 2012. The official delegation of the Russian Orthodox Church accompanying His Holiness includes Metropolitan Varsonofiy of Saransk and Mordovia, chancellor of the Moscow Patriarchate; Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations (DECR); [...]

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Archbishop Nifon of Philippopolis, representative of Patriarch of Antioch to Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, was awarded the Order of Metropolitan District in the Republic of Kazakhstan

July 27, 2012 News

On 23 July 2012, at the Moscow Metochion of the Church of Antioch, Archbishop Nifon of Philippopolis, representative of the Patriarch of the Great Antioch and All the East to the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, met with Metropolitan Alexander of Astana and Kazakhstan, head of the Russian Orthodox Church’s Metropolitan district in the [...]

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Patriarch Theodoros II of Alexandria arrives in Russia

July 27, 2012 News

25/7/2012 On 24 July 2012, His Beatitude Theodoros II, Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, arrived at the Patriarchal and Synodal Spiritual, Administrative and Cultural Centre of the Russian Orthodox Church in the south of Russia at the invitation of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia. At the Centre, the [...]

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