Monday, August 20, 2012

Archbishop Abune Natnael elected as the Locum Tenens of Ethiopian Orthodox Church(Updated)

August 20, 2012 Featured News

20/8/2012 ERTA Addis Ababa:It has been reported that The Holy Synod of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church on Monday elected Archbishop Abune Natnael of Arsi Diocese as the Locum Tenens (Caretaker) of the Patriarchal Throne until a new leader is elected. It has also been reported that seven Archbishops . Abune Timotheos, Abune Gabriel, Abune Estephanos, [...]

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The Ethiopian Television to Boradcast Funeral Ceremony of the Late Patriarch Abune Paulos

August 20, 2012 Featured News

20/8/2012 Solomon Mengist (Special Correspondent) The Ethiopian Television (ETV) will bring to you the funeral ceremony of the late patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church, Abune Paulos live through the following streaming links Thursday starting from 9AM in the morning Addis Ababa time(GMT +3). The procession starts from the papal residence at the St. [...]

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SPC metropolitan:Pope should first visit Jasenovac

August 20, 2012 Featured News

20/8/2012 NOVI SAD – Metropolitan Jovan of Zagreb, Ljubljana and the entire Italy stated on Sunday that before coming to Serbia, head of the Roman Catholic Church Pope Benedict XVI should visit Jasenovac and honour the memory of the victims killed in the prison camp set up by the Nazi puppet state Croatia. Metropolitan Jovan [...]

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Orthodox Church forgives Pussy Riot

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20/8/2012 Two top clerics in the Russian Orthodox Church said that it has forgiven the members of feminist punk band Pussy Riot who were convicted of hooliganism and sent to prison for briefly taking over a cathedral in a raucous prayer for deliverance from Vladimir Putin. Tikhon Shevkunov, who heads Moscow’s Sretensky Monastery and is [...]

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Calling for all Copts, NGOs form coordinating body outside church auspices

August 20, 2012 Featured News

Mohamed Elmeshad 20/8/2012 Spurred by what they see as an increasing tide of Islamization lead by the Muslim Brotherhood, 13 Coptic civil society and political activist groups decided to band together and create a coordinating body unattached to the church. Inaugurated last week, the Coptic Consultative Council is meant to work as a “unifying entity [...]

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Pope says Orthodox-Catholic meeting raises hope

August 20, 2012 News

20/8/2012 CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy — Pope Benedict XVI has hailed as an important step a meeting in Poland between the leaders of Russia’s Orthodox church and Poland’s Catholic hierarchy. Poland and Russia have feuded for centuries, and their ties are marked by distrust. Benedict praised the goodwill efforts by Orthodox Patriarch Kirill and Archbishop Jozef [...]

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Bulgarian Orthodox Christians Honor St. Ivan Rilski

August 20, 2012 News

20/8/2012 The Bulgarian Orthodox Church celebrates Saturday, August 18, the assumption of Saint Ivan Rilski, honored as the patron of the Bulgarian people. St. Ivan Rilski was the first Bulgarian recluse. He was revered as a saint when he was still alive and the legend says wild animals were coming to him and birds were [...]

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Patriarch Kirill Awarded with Polish Church Order

August 20, 2012 Featured News

20/8/2012 MOSCOW(RIA Novosti) The head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, was on Sunday awarded with the Polish Orthodox Church’s Order of St. Mary Magdalene, 1st Class, the Polish Catholic News Agency (KAI) reported. On the last day of Patriarch Kirill’s visit to Poland, Metropolitan Sawa of Warsaw and [...]

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Message of Condolence on the Passing of Patriarch Abune Paulos, Head of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church

August 20, 2012 Featured News

Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, Information Services 18/8/2012 On August 17, His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians, conveyed condolences to the Holy Synod of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, to their clergy and to all the Ethiopian Orthodox Christians on the occasion of the death of Abune Paulos, Patriarch of the [...]

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