Thursday, August 9, 2012

Sectarian slaying: Syrian rebels attack Alawites, Christians – reports

August 9, 2012 Featured News

9/8/2012 The ongoing conflict in Syria is becoming increasingly sectarian amid reports that rebel fighters have attacked a housing compound for employees of a power company, killing 16 civilians, mostly Alawites and Christians. The massacre took place in Jandar village near the western city of Homs on Tuesday, Syria’s state news agency SANA reports. “Armed [...]

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Fatal lot of Christianity’s homelands

August 9, 2012 Featured News

WILLIAM DALRYMPLE The Australian 9/8/2012 WHEREVER you go in the Middle East today, you see the Arab Spring rapidly turning into the Christian winter. The past few years have been catastrophic for the region’s beleaguered 14-million strong Christian minority. In Egypt, the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood has been accompanied by anti-Coptic riots and intermittent [...]

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Belcher: Perspective on ancient Ethiopian texts

August 9, 2012 Featured News

Wendy Laura Belcher, an assistant professor of comparative literature and African American studies at Princeton, specializes in medieval, early modern and modern African literature. Her current research focuses on the stories of women saints told in ancient Ethiopian texts. In 2011, Belcher spent a year in Ethiopia researching hagiographies — biographies of saints — stored [...]

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Georgia mourns victims of 2008 war

August 9, 2012 News

08/07/2012 Georgia is marking the anniversary of the Five-Day War of 2008. President Mikheil Saakashvili visited Dzever, Kitsnisi and Karaleti villages of the Shida-Kartli Region and described the challenges Georgia currently faces, Georgia Online reports. Saakashvili said that the country plans to join the EU and NATO. All flags in the country have been lowered [...]

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Holy Transfiguration Monastery Wins Copyright Appeal Against Archbishop

August 9, 2012 News

9/8/2012 Fish & Richardson BOSTON, Aug. 7, 2012 — /PRNewswire/ — The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit upheld a major copyright win for the Holy Transfiguration Monastery, a Greek Orthodox monastery located in Brookline, MA, in a copyright infringement suit involving the Monastery’s copyrighted translations of seven ancient religious Greek texts. The [...]

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The Celebration of the 20th Anniversary of the Enthronement of Archbishop Anastasios

August 9, 2012 Featured News

The Albanian Orthodox Church 9/8/2012 Another Historic Anniversary for the Orthodox Autocephalous Church of Albania On August 2nd in the new “Resurrection of Christ” Cathedral in the capital, the celebration took place of the 20th anniversary of the Enthronement of His Beatitude, Archbishop Anastasios; one of the most significant moments in the path of the [...]

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