Monday, March 4, 2013

Coptic Church attacked in Libya’s Benghazi: ministry

March 4, 2013 Featured News
Libyan officials have condemned a Thursday attack on a Coptic Christian church in Benghazi. Here, Copts attend a service in the Church of St. Barbera in Cairo, Egypt.

4/3/13 Libyan officials condemn an attack on a Coptic Church that threatened two priests. Libya’s foreign ministry on Sunday expressed concern over an attack on a Coptic Christian church in the eastern city of Benghazi late last week, according to Reuters, citing the country’s LANA news agency. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation’s Sunday [...]

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A guide to the interior of a Russian Orthodox church

March 4, 2013 News

Joy Neumeyer at 04/03/2013 20:00 Just over a year ago, when Pussy Riot made its “punk prayer” inside Christ the Savior Cathedral, the English-language press was flooded with images of women in bright knitted masks – and iffy translations of church terminology. Many newspapers reported that the women performed on the church’s altar, when they were actually [...]

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Coptic church gets help from liberal groups after Islamists protest construction

March 4, 2013 News

Al-Masry Al-Youm  28/02/2013  After an Islamist attempt to halt construction at an Egyptian Orthodox Church in Qalyubiya earlier this week, political groups visited Coptic leaders to express their support and resolve the dispute. Salafis and Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated protesters had surrounded the Abu Maqar Church in Shubra al-Kheima Monday in an attempt to stop construction on the church’s [...]

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Russian Church official attacks Stalin but says Soviet history is not all bad

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4/3/12 A top Russian Orthodox cleric has praised the Russian people for disrupting Stalin’s plan to change the historical course of Russia, but at the same time called for not all Soviet history to be painted black. “I doubt that Stalin wanted Russia to return to its roots, he sincerely lived by the ideals of [...]

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Jennifer Aniston May Marry in Greek Orthodox Church

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Joanna Varikos - 4/3/13 Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux’s wedding plans are moving along, with buzz that the intimate ceremony may take place at a Greek Orthodox Church in Pennsylvania Aniston used to frequent as a child. Sources in the town of Eddystone, Penn., have said that the couple are looking at possibly marrying at St. [...]

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Washington Community Remembers Sumgait Pogroms

March 4, 2013 News

4/3/13 WASHINGTON—Shouting “We Remember Sumgait” and “Justice for Gurgen Margaryan,” Greater Washington, DC area Armenian Americans braved freezing temperatures today to commemorate the victims of twenty-five years of Azerbaijani violence and to stand in solidarity with the people of the independent Republic of Nagorno Karabakh, in their effort to secure a fair and lasting peace. [...]

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Lesser Synod, Metropolitan Council conclude meetings

March 4, 2013 News

SYOSSET, NY [OCA] 4/3/13 The Lesser Synod of Bishops and theMetropolitan Council of the Orthodox Church in America met at the Chancery here February 25-28, 2013. His Beatitude, Metropolitan Tikhon presided at the sessions. Members of the Lesser Synod who participated included His Eminence, Archbishop Nathaniel; His Eminence, Archbishop Benjamin; His Grace, Bishop Michael, secretary of the Holy [...]

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Hindus Urge New Ethiopian Church Patriarch to Promote Interfaith Dialogue

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Distinguished Hindu Statesman Rajan Zed

4/3/13 Ethiopia is home to one of the world’s greatest Christian religious-historical sites. (RENO) – Congratulating His Holiness Abune Mathias, 71, on his election as the sixth Patriarch of Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church headquartered in Addis Ababa, Hindus hope that he would promote interfaith dialogue in the world. Mathias, who has been serving as the [...]

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FIRST MONUMENT TO PATRIARCH ALEXIY II UNVEILED IN MOSCOW

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4/3/13 On February 23, 2013 the authorized representative of the Ukrainian Church on matters of higher education and science, Archimandrite Viktor (Bed) took part in the enlarged session of academic council of the National Medical-surgical N.I. Pirogov Center (Moscow), arranged for unveiling of the first monument to his Holiness Patriarch Alexiy II — the first [...]

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