Saturday, September 1, 2012

The Armenian Apostolic Church calls to raise a voice of protest

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Gurgen Margaryan 1/9/2012 The Supreme Spiritual Council held an emergency sitting at the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin chaired by His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians. The Supreme Spiritual Council expressed concern over the release of the Ramil Safarov, an Azerbaijani officer, who brutally killed Armenian army officer Gurgen Margaryan [...]

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St. Asdvadzadzin Church in Turkish-occupied Nicosia to be turned into a “culture center”

September 1, 2012 News

1/9/2012 The Near East University will turn the Armenian Church in Nicosia into a cultural center, Gibrahayer e-magazine reports. Speaking to reporters, the university’s Director of the Board of Trustees Irfan Gunsel stated that “works have been launched in order to turn the historical Armenian Church and Monastery into a culture center.” Gunsel explained that [...]

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Christianity faces a Middle Eastern exodus

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Star News Services 1/9/2012 The final outcome of the Arab Spring will not be known for years, perhaps decades, but in the meantime Christian communities across the Middle East continue to wither. The latest to face a possible exodus are Syrian Christians, many of whom are on the wrong side of the deepening civil war [...]

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Georgia: Orthodox Church Looks Askance at Proliferation of Yoga Studies

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Molly Corso 1/9/2012 A growing number of Georgians are turning to yoga to shake off the stress of daily life. But their quest for inner calm and smaller waists is generating hostility from the powerful Georgian Orthodox Church. Over the past two years, yoga has gone from a largely unknown Eastern tradition to a popular [...]

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Pasadena officials speak out against denial of Armenian Genocide after Turkish official’s visit

September 1, 2012 News

His Holiness Aram I, of the Armenian Apostolic Church, visits the Armenian Martyrs Memorial Monument in Bicknell Park in Montebello Saturday, October 8, 2011. (SGVN/Staff Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz) 1/9/2012 Brenda Gazzar, SGVN twitter.com/bgazzar PASADENA – When Councilman Terry Tornek learned about the Holocaust as a boy, his mother gave him the novel “The Forty [...]

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Turkish state backs destruction of Armenian church

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1/9/2012 YEREVAN. – Vardzk magazine’s each issue includes topics which were never before covered, stated Samvel Karapetyan, chairman of the foundation studying Armenian architecture, during a press conference on Thursday. In his words, an article in the magazine is devoted to the seventh-century Armenian Church of Mren, which is located in Turkey, very …

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Four churches being restored in Ani

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Alisa Gevorgyan “Radiolur” 1/9/2012 Turkey is implementing reconstruction works in the historic Armenian city of Ani. ICOMOS Armenia company has tried to use the international levers to have Armenian specialists engaged in the process, its chairman Gagik Gyurjyan told reporters today. A resolution on involvement of an international expert group in the reconstruction of Ani’s [...]

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Orthodox youth to be united into All-Russian movement

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(RIA Novosti / Alexander Vikulov) 1/9/2012 RTV The Orthodox Church plans to unite numerous separate orthodox Christian youth organizations into an all-Russian movement which would do charity and missionary work and take care of the spiritual development of young people. The initiative was put forward by the Moscow Council of Orthodox Youth Organizations, which has [...]

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Two Orthodox churches robbed in Latvia

September 1, 2012 News

1/9/2012 Moscow, August 31, Interfax – Two Christian Orthodox churches were robbed on the days of the feast of the Assumption of the Virgin in East Latvia, the website of the Russian Church reported on Friday. On the night ahead of the feast, August 28, unidentified offenders robbed the Church of the Intercession in the [...]

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4 area Orthodox churches plan 1st combined service in 2 years

September 1, 2012 News

BY TANYA IRWIN BLADE STAFF WRITER 1/9/2012 Sylvania to be site; 3 others to suspend rites for special holiday weekend event. Four area Orthodox churches will hold a combined outdoor service Sunday, with four priests and a combined choir. The Orthodox Clergy Association of Greater Toledo will hold the Pan-Orthodox Outdoor Combined Divine Liturgy in [...]

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Saint John the Baptist is the Teacher of the Permanent Prayer

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1/9/2012 Romanian Orthodox Church On 29 August, the Romanian Orthodox Church celebrates the Beheading of Saint John the Baptist. He is known especially for the holiness of his life, for the strictness of asceticism and ardent desire to do justice and reach the Kingdom of God. The people of the Church named him angel in [...]

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Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk Celebrates Divine Liturgy at the Cathedral of the Mother of God “Joy of All Who Sorrow”

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Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia 1/9/2012 On the feast day of the Dormition of the Most-Holy Mother of God, August 28, 2012, His Eminence Metropolitan Ilarion of Volokolamsk, President of the Department of External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, gave His Eminence Archbishop Kyrill of San Francisco and Western America of the Russian Orthodox [...]

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Holy Synod of Ukrainian Orthodox Church holds its regular session in Kiev

September 1, 2012 News

1/9/2012 On 25 August 2012, the Holy Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church held an enlarged session in the residence of the Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church at the Holy Assumption Laura of the Caves in Kiev under the chairmanship of His Beatitude Metropolitan Vladimir of Kiev and All Ukraine. The members of the [...]

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Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk leads celebrations marking 200th anniversary of Fort Ross

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On August 25, 2012, with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations, led the celebration of the Divine Liturgy at Fort Ross, the place of the first Russian settlement in California. The liturgy was celebrated in [...]

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Eritrean UK Subdiocese of Europe Committee meets with Abba Seraphim

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Oriental Orthodox Churches Eritrean- British Orthodox Churches 1/9/2012 On 27 August, 2012 the Committee of the Eritrean Orthodox UK subdiocese of Europe met together with Abba Seraphim in Charlton to confer on their mission and progress. Prayers were said for the entire European diocese and especially for His Grace Bishop Makarios, whose ministry in caring [...]

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