Wednesday, March 13, 2013

EU, IMF want Cypriot natural gas, but will get nothing – Archbishop

March 13, 2013 Featured News

13/3/13 Cypriot’s moneylenders, namely the European Union and the International Monetary Fund, seek to get hold of the natural gas deposits that have recently been discovered south of Cyprus in the Mediterranean, but they will get nothing, the Hierarch of the Cypriot Orthodox Church, Archbishop Chrysostomos, said in a live interview with Cypriot government television. [...]

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Russian Orthodox Church’s position on possible Patriarch-Pope meeting unchanged

March 13, 2013 Featured News

Moscow, March 13, Interfax – In light of the ongoing elections in the Vatican, the Moscow Patriarchate says that its position regarding a possible meeting between the Patriarch and the Pope remains unchanged. “As concerns a meeting with the Pope, our position is simple and unchanged: such a meeting cannot be held just for the [...]

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Enthronement of the New Archbishop of Buzău and Vrancea

March 13, 2013 Featured News

On Sunday, 10 March 2013, His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church and Metropolitan of Muntenia and Dobrudgea enthroned His Eminence Ciprian as Archbishop of Buzău and Vrancea. After the celebration of the Divine Liturgy in the Archiepiscopal Cathedral of Buzău, assisted by a group of hierarchs, priests and deacons, His Beatitude Patriarch [...]

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The Patriarch of Romania Celebrated the Divine Liturgy in the Archiepiscopal Cathedral of Buzău

March 13, 2013 Featured News

On Sunday, 10 March 2013, His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of Romania, celebrated the Divine Liturgy in the Archiepiscopal Cathedral of Buzău. Besides His Beatitude the following hierarchs concelebrated: His Eminence Joseph, Metropolitan of Prikonisou and exarch of All Propontida, His Eminence Ilarion, Metropolitan of Volokolamsk, His Eminence Hrisostom, Metropolitan of Patra, His Eminence Isaia, Metropolitan [...]

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The authorities are not bringing Archbishop Jovan to trial for more than three months

March 13, 2013 Featured News

On March 12, 2013, one year and three months are concluded since Archbishop Jovan of Ohrid and Metropolitan of Skopje is found in detention! The last court hearing in the latest staged court process on religious grounds against the Archbishop, the Bishops, monastics and faithful people of the Orthodox Ohrid Archbishopric was held on December [...]

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Looking at Bucharest’s Orthodox churches in the warm March sunshine

March 13, 2013 Featured News

      By Paul Wood – 13.3.13 Last week-end I took advantage of the extremely good weather – the thermometer read 21°C – and went looking round Orthodox churches in Bucharest. When I was a boy, looking at a beautiful church was the present I most wanted for birthdays and it still is. The [...]

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The Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church meets in session chaired by Patriarch Kirill

March 13, 2013 News

March 12, 2013, the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church has met for a regular session at the Synod’s Hall at the synodal and patriarchal residence in the St. Daniel Monastery, Moscow. It is chaired by His Holiness Kirill, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia. The permanent members of the Holy Synod are Metropolitans [...]

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Patriarch Kirill meets with President Alexander Ankvab of Abkhazia

March 13, 2013 News

On March 4, His Holiness Kirill, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, received A. S. Ankvab, President of the Republic of Abkhazia, at the patriarchal and synodal residence in the St. Daniel Monastery. They discussed the religious and cultural relations between the peoples of Abkhazia and Russia. Participating in the meeting were Metropolitan Hilarion of [...]

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Orthodox Church in Syria provides aid to conflict victims

March 13, 2013 News

13/3/13 The Department of Ecumenical Relations and Development (DERD) of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East has delivered around 75,000 humanitarian aid kits to an estimated 280,045 individuals in Syria amidst its on-going conflict. The Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East is a member church of the World [...]

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Gaza’s Orthodox Church Celebrates 1,606 Years

March 13, 2013 Featured News
A Greek Orthodox priest attends Christmas services at the St. Porphyrius church in Gaza City, Jan. 7, 2012. (photo by REUTERS/Mohammed Salem) Read more: http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2013/03/gaza-orthodox-church.html#ixzz2NLvQOWQV

  Asmaa al-Ghoul for Al-Monitor Palestine Pulse 12/3/13 In the only Orthodox Church in Gaza, surrounded by saints’ icons hanging on the walls, young and old churchgoers — along with Greek Orthodox Bishop Alexios and worshippers — sing hymns, hold candles and burn incense, filling the place with an aromatic smell and bringing more holiness [...]

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