February 2013

Abune Mathias Elected as the new Patriarch of Ethiopia

February 28, 2013 Featured News

  28/2/13 Addis Ababa : Archbishop of  Jerusalem, Abune Mathias is elected as the 6th Patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church .Abune Mathias won 500 of the 806 votes. He will be known as 6th Patriarch and Catholicos of Ethiopia, Ichege of the See of St. Tekle Haymanot and Archbishop of Axum. Catholicos of the East [...]

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Resumption of Georgian wine supply to Russian market will help improve bilateral relations – Ilia II

February 28, 2013 News

Tbilisi, February 27, Interfax – Catholicos-Patriarch Ilia II of All Georgia met with representatives of Russia’s Rospotrebnadzor, who are in Georgia to inspect the Georgian wine and mineral water manufacturers seeking permission to supply their products to Russia, in his residence on Wednesday. Ilia II expressed his satisfaction with the fact that Georgian wine and [...]

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Messiah College professor goes in search of Barnabas

February 28, 2013 Featured News
This church is part of the Monastery of Apostle Barnabas complex near Salamis, Cyprus. Turkish authorities will not allow Orthodox Christians to hold sacred liturgy in this church because Turkish officials decades ago turned the church into a museum for tourists.

By JOHN HILTON Daily Record/Sunday News – 28/2/13 Michal Cosby’s four-month stay in Cyprus reveals unexpected findings of the little-known biblical figure. As a historian, Michael Cosby knows he has to set the record straight on the little-known biblical figure Barnabas. As a human being who was welcomed with open arms during his four months [...]

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Bidzina Ivanishvili: Let’s first make church renovation, then start dispute

February 27, 2013 Featured News
St. Nshan church in Tbilisi, Georgia

27/2/13 The renovation of the Armenian theater in Tbilisi, as well as six churches will be implemented by the means of Georgia’s Prime Minister Bidzini Ivanishvili’s fund, the Georgian Embassy in Armenia informed earlier this week. For several years the Armenian churches in Georgia have been a matter of dispute between the Armenian Apostolic Church [...]

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Egyptian churches will not be attending national dialogue

February 27, 2013 Featured News

MENA 26/02/2013 The three Egyptian churches have excused themselves from the televised national dialogue session called for by President Mohamed Morsy for Tuesday. Bishop Andrea Zaki, head of the Coptic Evangelical Church, told the state news agency MENA that the Coptic Catholic, Orthodox and Evangelical Churches had decided not to attend the session, but were calling for [...]

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”This Is Simply Our Home”

February 27, 2013 Featured News
Land dispute with the Turkish government and Kurdish village leaders: The Mor Gabrial is the oldest surviving Christian monastery in the world. There have been claims that the monastery was built on the grounds of a previous mosque - regardless of the fact that the monastery was founded over 170 tears prior to the birth of Mohammed

  Syriac Orthodox Christians in Turkey Ekrem Eddy Güzeldere – 27/2/13 In recent years, around 60-100 Syriac Orthodox families have returned from central Europe to Turkey. Encouraged by changes in the political atmosphere, the minority nonetheless faces a host of problems, from the expropriation of land belonging to a monastery, to a ban on special [...]

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Bulgarian Orthodox Bishop Donates Rolex To Pay Church’s Electricity

February 27, 2013 Featured News

Ria Novosti - 27/2/13 Metropolitan Nikolay from Bulgaria’s second largest city of Plovdiv has donated his expensive Rolex watch to a local church so it could pay off an electricity bill, Novinite.com reported on Wednesday. The Saint Marina Church in Plovdiv recently received an electricity bill for January that amounted to the sum of BNG 2,940 [...]

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Patriarch Neofit of Bulgaria receives delegation of the Russian Orthodox Church

February 27, 2013 News

On February 26, 2013, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations, met with His Holiness Neofit, Patriarch of Bulgaria, and members of the Holy Synod of the Bulgarian Patriarchate. Participating in the meeting were Metropolitans Dometian of Vidin, Kiril of Varna and Veliki Preslav, Joseph of America, Canada [...]

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A group of Damascus Armenians by a miracle escaped bomb blast

February 26, 2013 Featured News

26/2/13 YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 26, ARMENPRESS: A bomb fell at Santa Rita church located near ”Homenmen” Hunchakyan club in Damascus Bab Tuma Christian district on February 24. Damascus based Armenian Nazaret Elmagyan told Armenpress, the incident left no victims. Fortunately Armenian church suffered no damages. The church hosted civil funeral ceremony of an old Armenian woman, [...]

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Retrace the roots of religion with Swan Hellenic

February 26, 2013 Featured News

26/2/13 Discover the world’s most sacred and holy sites integral to today’s major religions with Swan Hellenic on the Holy Lands cruise this Easter. The 15-day cruise will visit the Pyramids and Coptic Orthodox monasteries in Egypt, before calling at the holy cities of Bethlehem and Jerusalem over Easter. There will also be a chance [...]

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Bulgaria’s Chief Mufti congratulates Patriarch Neofit

February 26, 2013 News

26/2/13 Bulgaria’s Chief Mufti, Mustafa Hadzhi, has extended congratulations to Bulgaria’s new Orthodox Patriarch Neofit. “It is an exceptional honor to me to offer the most sincere and heartfelt congratulations on behalf of all Bulgarian citizens practicing Islam and me, on the occasion of your enthronization as Bulgarian Patriarch and Sofia Metropolitan,” Mustafa Hadzhi’s letter [...]

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Cardinal’s resignation raises Vatican conspiracy theories

February 26, 2013 Featured News

JOHN ALLEMANG The Globe and Mail 26/2/13 Questions are being raised about backroom tactics at the Vatican after Britain’s highest-ranking cleric, in the wake of abuse allegations, decided not to attend the conclave to elect the next pope. Cardinal Keith O’Brien resigned his post as Archbishop of Edinburgh, it was announced on Monday, a day [...]

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List of Five Candidates Announced for the Ethiopian Orthodox Patriarchal Throne

February 25, 2013 Featured News

25/2/13 Addis Ababa: The Patriarchal Electoral Committee of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church has announced the names of five candidates for the Patriarchal throne. They are as follows: His Eminence, Archbishop Abune Mattias of Jerusalem His Eminence Archbishop Abune Elsa of North Gondar His Eminence Abune Hizkias, Archbishop of Kaffa, Sheka, Bench and Maji, and General Secretary [...]

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Christian parties, Hezbollah and Amal firm on Orthodox plan

February 25, 2013 Featured News

By Hasan Lakkis The Daily Star 25/2/13 Opposition and majority sources told The Daily Star that ongoing talks have not yet broken the deadlock over a new electoral law but said this week could be decisive. Free Patriotic Movement MP Alain Aoun told The Daily Star that no one had contacted FPM leader Michel Aoun [...]

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Putin awards Old Believers Metropolitan

February 25, 2013 Featured News

22/2/13 On Friday, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin awarded the head of the Church of Old Believers Metropolitan Cornelius with an Order of Friendship. The Old Believers is a Christian denomination, which separated from the Russian Orthodox Church in the 17th century. This is the first time ever that a head of the Russian state awards [...]

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Patriarch Neofit:The Cross is Heavy

February 25, 2013 Featured News

25/2/13 Heavy is the cross that God and our Holy Church are giving me today, but in God’s words I trust and ask him for strength for when I am weak, then am I strong, Bulgaria’s new patriarch said. Patriarch Neofit delivered his first address to the Bulgarian Orthodox Christians during his inauguration at St. [...]

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New Patriarch to pray for peace in Bulgarian’s Soul

February 25, 2013 News

25/2/13 Neofit, the newly elected Patriarch of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, vowed to pray for peace in the hearts of the Bulgarian people, minutes after he was officially enthroned. On his way to the Holy Synod, the new patriarch declined to make any comments to the reporters and his only words were: “The first task [...]

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Three Hundred Years of Orthodoxy in China: a critical point

February 25, 2013 Featured News
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  Prof. Daniel Yeung, Director of Institute of Sino-Christian Studies (left), Prof. Zhang Baichun (Beijing Normal University), Bishop Ephraim (Prosyanok) of Bikin, Nelson Mitrophan Chin, President of Orthodox Fellowship of All Saints of China (Boston, USA) Prof. Marina Vitalevna Rumyantsev (IAAS MSU)     The Chinese Orthodox Church English translation by Liubov Afonina 25/2/13 In [...]

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Iranian Family Converted to Orthodoxy in Islamabad

February 24, 2013 Featured News

Russian Orthodox Church of Pakistan (ROCOR- Moscow Patriarchate) 24/2/13 Islamabad: A family form Iran accepted Orthodoxy. Ayub is a fearless lionhearted man, bold , educated and strong in faith. Fr Adrian met his family in Islamabad and he was excited him by their faith and lives. His wife Teresa and children Francis and Maria are [...]

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Metropolitan Neofit elected as new Patriarch of Bulgarian Orthodox Church

February 24, 2013 Featured News

  24/2/13 SOFIA, Bulgaria – The Bulgarian Orthodox Church says Metropolitan Neofit has been elected as the new patriarch. Neofit, who is 67, was picked Sunday among three candidates shortlisted in a secret ballot by the 14 bishops that make up the Holy Synod of the church. An electoral college made up of 138 members [...]

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Ruse Metropolitan Neofit Elected Bulgarian Patriarch

February 24, 2013 Featured News
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  24/2/13 Ruse Metropolitan Neofit has been elected Patriarch of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church by the Holy Synod’s national church council. Neofit prevailed over two other candidates at runoff. The three who were were chosen after prolonged debates and stalemates last weekend were: Neofit, the Stara Zagora metropolitan Galaktion, and Lovech’sGavriil. The news about Neofit’s election was announced Sunday by interim Patriarch andSofia Metropolitan, Kiril. Neofit collected 90 votes at runoff against Gavrail, who got 47. The announcement [...]

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Did the Pope quit to dodge blame for misdeeds or just to do the right thing?

February 24, 2013 Featured News

Igor Ogorodnev, RT 24/2/13 The latest allegation that a gay priest blackmail scandal was the reason for Benedict XVI’s sudden resignation shows that his sudden decision will be queried long after his departure, perhaps robbing him of his greatest achievement while in office. Italian newspaper La Repubblica has reported that the Pope was overwhelmed when [...]

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DISY boss receives Church’s blessing

February 24, 2013 News

Elias Hazou – 22/2/13 NICOS Anastasiades’ presidential candidacy yesterday got another endorsement, albeit this time from a non-secular – yet highly political – source. Archbishop Chrysostomos publicly lent his support to Anastasiades following a meeting with the DISY leader. “The country needs a strong government, and we shall stand by the government and Mr. Anastasiades,” [...]

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Bulgarian Orthodox Church Holds Historic Patriarch Vote

February 24, 2013 Featured News

24/2/13 The new Patriarch of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church is going to be elected Sunday by the Holy Synod at a national church council. Bulgaria’s Patriarch Maxim, who led the Church since 1971, passed away on November 6, 2012, at the age of 98. The election is historic for Bulgaria as the last one happened [...]

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Religious divides deepen in Syria

February 24, 2013 Featured News

Andreas Gorzewski  – 24/2/13 The fronts in the Syrian conflict are increasingly hardening along religious lines. But the prospects for the Christian, Druze and Alawite minorities are all very different. The various religious communities in Syria lived together peacefully for decades. But the ongoing conflict in the country is tearing ever deeper divides between the [...]

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