Monday, March 11, 2013

Foreign sponsored bandits pursue power in Syria – Russia Orthodox Church

March 11, 2013 Featured News

Moscow, March 11, Interfax – The Moscow Patriarchate said that foreign forces supporting the Syrian opposition were trying to destroy Christianity in the region. “Unfortunately, the position of the Christian community in Syria is extremely difficult. The radical Islamist forces, which are currently pursuing the power, have a goal to destroy Christianity completely, to force [...]

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Protest at Libya’s embassy in Cairo over death of Copt in Benghazi

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Ahram Online- 11/3/13 Coptic group calls for protest by Libyan embassy Cairo demanding release of detained Christians. The Coptic Youth Front has called for a protest on Monday in front of the Libyan embassy in Cairo protesting the death of Ezzat Hakim, an Egyptian Copt declared dead after allegedly being tortured by security in a [...]

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The Patriarch of Romania at 23 years of hierarchal service

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On Monday, 4 March 2013, His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church celebrated 23 years since he was ordained hierarch. His Beatitude was ordained Bishop on 4 March 1990, on the Orthodoxy Sunday, in the Metropolitan Cathedral of Timişoara by His Eminence Nestor, Metropolitan of Oltenia, His Eminence Nicolae, Metropolitan of Banat, and [...]

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No material wealth can have the value of a saved soul

March 11, 2013 Featured News

On 3 March 2013, His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church delivered a sermon in the chapel of Saint Gregory the Enlightener of the Patriarchal Residence in which he explained the significance of the evangelical pericope of the 34th Sunday after the Pentecost, of Saint Evangelist Luke 15:11-32, presenting the return of the [...]

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Orthodox cathedral to be built in Estonian city

March 11, 2013 News

11/3/13 The ceremony of laying down the first stone of an Orthodox cathedral and a religious procession in connection with this occasion took place in the Estonian city of Narva on Sunday. It is planned that the construction of the cathedral’s walls and cupola will be finished somewhere in September 2013. According to preliminary estimations, [...]

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Russian Orthodox Church of Pakistan Protest attacks on Christians in Lahore – Exclusive

March 11, 2013 Featured News

11/3/13 The Russian Orthodox Church of Pakistan  Hyderabad-Pakistan: The entire parish of St Anthony’s Orthodox church , Hyderabad, Sindh Pakistan, with Fr Anthony demonstrate outside the Hyderabad Press club against the killings of Christians in Pakistan two days ago.   Source: OCP News Service

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Dozens of Christian homes set on fire by Muslim mob, Pakistani authorities say

March 11, 2013 Featured News

Associated Press – 10/3/13 (CNN) – The arrest of a Christian man accused of making remarks against the Muslim prophet Mohammed wasn’t enough to appease an angry mob in Pakistan this weekend. More than 100 homes of Christians were set on fire by outraged Muslims in the Badami Bagh community in Lahore on Saturday after police [...]

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