Sunday, March 17, 2013

Will Pope Francis Stop the aggression of Malankara Catholic Rite against the Indian Malankara Orthodox Church

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OCP News Service – 17/3/13 Read:OCP Executive Council request IMOC to withdraw from Orthodox – Roman Catholic Dialogue Read:Vatican Continues to bless ‘Uniatism and Sheep Stealing’ in India Read:Roman Catholic Church contradicts on the Status of Self Proclaimed Catholicos and Malankara Metropolitan Read: Is The Catholicate Of The Romo-Syrians In India Canonically Genuine Or Bogus? [...]

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Public confidence to Church, Army and Police unrivalled in Georgia – survey

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17/3/13 Orthodox Church preserves its leadership in the rating of confidence to social institutions. According to the social research of the International Republican Institute (IRI), 95 percent of the respondents trust the Church. The next are the Army with 91 percent and the Police with 89 percent. Confidence rating in relation to other social institutions [...]

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Libya continues persecution of Copts, closes embassy in Egypt

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Egyptian Coptic Christian Ragaa Abdullah (C-R) wife of Ezzat Hakim Attallah, who died in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, days after being arrested on charge for allegedly seeking to convert Muslims in Libya, mourns with relatives during his funeral service at a church in Assiut city

Luiz Sanchez - 17/3/13 The Libyan crackdown on Copts continues as four more Egyptians are arrested for being Christians. The Maspero Youth Union (MYU) confirmed on Saturday that four Egyptian Copts were detained at a checkpoint on Friday in the Libyan city of Misrata. MYU claims that those detained are being held because they are Christians. [...]

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Tanzania: Coptic Pope to Meet With Kikwete

March 17, 2013 News
President Jakaya Kikwete

By Ludovick Kazoka -17/3/13 The visiting Coptic Orthodox Pope of the Church of Alexandria, His Holiness Theodoros, would on Monday have audience with President Jakaya Kikwete to thank him for great support granted to his church carrying out social initiatives in the country. Addressing journalists in Dar es Salaam on Saturday, Pope Theodoros, said his [...]

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Pope Tawadros II calls upon Coptic movements to choose ‘peaceful struggle’

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Ahram Online – 16/3/13 Tawadros II met several Coptic movements to discuss recent crisis in Libya and call upon groups to struggle peacefully. Coptic Pope Tawadros II has reached out to Coptic youth movements after recent troubles in Libya for the group, saying, “If you choose the route of struggle, then it has to be [...]

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Coptic Church Planning Senior Home on Aldama Street

March 17, 2013 News

David Fonseca - 16/3/13 The 62-unit senior living facility would be accompanied by a new recreation center. Holy Virgin Mary Coptic Orthodox Church is seeking permission from the Department of City Planning to build a 62-unit residential development with an adjacent recreational facility on a swath of church-owned land on Aldama Street. According to a notice [...]

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Orthodox flock of Rome: hopes are high for the new Pope

March 17, 2013 News

Milena Faustova 17/3/13 The Russian Orthodox parish in Rome has high hopes for cooperation and dialogue with the new Pope Francis, Father Antoni Sevruk, rector of the Russian Orthodox Church of Saint Catherine the Great Martyr in Rome, told the Voice of Russia. The Saint Catherine Church at the Russian Embassy is a ten-minute walk [...]

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Libya: Security of Christian Communities ‘Precarious’ in Libya – Archbishop

March 17, 2013 News

15/3/13 Tripoli — Various Christian communities in Libya, as well as some Muslim groups, have been feeling increasingly under pressure from hardline Islamist groups since the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi in October 2011. “The level of security remains precarious for all foreigners, especially for Christians, because of the presence of some fundamentalist Islamic groups,” Giovanni [...]

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Icons tied to salvation history

March 17, 2013 News

16/3/13 March 24 is the first Sunday of Great Lent for Orthodox Christians and is known as Orthodoxy Sunday. The theme of Orthodoxy Sunday is the “Triumph of Holy Icons.” Great Lent starts Monday. During the eighth century, the church was struggling with whether or not to keep or eliminate Holy Icons, the “pictures” of [...]

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Chinese audio recording of Bishop Ephraim of Bikin on the Eve of Great Lent

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The Chinese Orthodox Church  English translation by Nina Tkachuk Dimas  16/3/13 An audio recording of the words of Bishop Ephraim of Bikin about Great Lent; it was published in Chinese, with the assistance of the SS. Peter and Paul parish in Hong Kong, on social networks and websites devoted to Orthodoxy in China. Such pastoral instructions are [...]

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