Saturday, March 23, 2013

HIS HOLINESS ARAM I RECEIVES THE PRIME MINISTER OF KARABAGH

March 23, 2013 Featured News

23/3/13 On Wednesday, 20 March 2013, His Holiness Aram I received the Prime Minister, Ara Haroutiounian, and his delegation, who were visiting Lebanon to discuss new business partnerships. The Prime Minister briefed the Catholicos Karabagh’s economic achievements and future strategies. His Holiness Aram I honored his guests with a reception, at which they met members [...]

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Justin Welby enthroned as new archbishop of Canterbury

March 23, 2013 Featured News
ustin Welby strikes three times on the cathedral door with his pastoral staff. Photograph: Chris Ison/PA

Sam Jones- The Guardian – 23/3/13 African dancers and Punjabi hymn greet new leader of world’s Anglicans as he takes up his post at cathedral ceremony. Justin Portal Welby’s long and unlikely journey from young oil executive to leader of the world’s 77 million Anglicans ended with three slow and echoing taps on the west [...]

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Avramopoulos on Hagia Sophia’s Renovation

March 23, 2013 News

Margarita Papantoniou - 23/3/13 “The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is closely monitoring both the developments concerning Hagia Sophia of Istanbul and the reversal of the Turkish Government’s politics against Christian monuments in its dominion,” reported the Minister Dimitris Avramopoulos in a document forwarded to the Parliament. He pointed out that “Greece and the rest of the [...]

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The holy light of Easter in Jerusalem

March 23, 2013 Featured News
Woman lights candle in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the Old City of Jerusalem. This site is holy to Catholics and other Christians, who believe it stands on the ground where Jesus of Nazareth was crucified by Roman soldiers. It also marks the site where many believe Jesus was entombed and resurrected. Kip Evans, (c) Kip Evans Photography

By William Hamblin and Daniel Peterson, For the Deseret – 23.3.13 One of the oldest rituals in Christendom is enacted each year at the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem, the traditional site of Christ’s burial and resurrection, on the Saturday before Orthodox Easter — which falls, this year, on May 4. In the morning, the clergy of the [...]

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Syrian War Especially Hard on Christians, Priest Notes

March 23, 2013 Featured News

CARL BUNDERSON/EWTN NEWS 03/22/2013 DAMASCUS, Syria — The Syrian civil war, which has now begun its third year, has “totally destroyed” a quarter of the country with local Christians particularly hard hit by the fighting, says a missionary priest. “Christians are suffering so much. ‘Please don’t forget us’ is a very clear message,” Father Andrzej Halemba, [...]

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Open Doors Impacting Dislocated Syrian Christians

March 23, 2013 News

23/3/13 Emily Fuentes, Communications & Public Relations Coordinator, Open Doors USA, 949-413-6721, emilyf@odusa.org  SANTA ANA, Calif., March 21, 2013 /Christian Newswire/ — In the midst of the horrible Syrian civil war, Open Doors and its church partners are putting warm clothes on needy children. For three long months this winter, children of a church in Aleppo have had [...]

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Bringing Moscow spiritual authority to the North

March 23, 2013 Featured News

23/3/13 William Brumfield, special to RBTH Once a bulwark of the Muscovite state in the Russian North, today the Savior Prilutsky Monastery is both a historical site and center of worship. The 14th century was critical in many ways for the formation of the Muscovite state that would become the center of Russia. One of [...]

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Obama meets Armenian Archbishop

March 23, 2013 News

23/3/13 PanARMENIAN.Net -  U.S. President Barack Obama toured the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem with President of the Palestinian National Authority Mahmoud Abbas, as part of his visit to Israel. In the church, Obama was greeted by Greek Orthodox Patriarch Theophilos III, Father Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Franciscan Custodian of the Holy Land, and Armenian Archbishop [...]

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Obama lights candles, prays at Bethlehem’s Church of Nativity compound

March 23, 2013 Featured News

22/3/13 JERUSALEM (CNS) — U.S. President Barack Obama, visiting the West Bank city of Bethlehem, stopped twice to light candles for his family and himself: first at the Church of Nativity grotto, where Christian tradition holds that Jesus was born, then at the adjacent Catholic Church of St. Catherine. On the last leg of his [...]

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Gems of Armenia: Cairo’s Arax Choir commemorates Aram Khachaturian

March 23, 2013 News

Ati Metwaly – 20/3/13 Armenian Community’s Arax Choir conducted by Mihran Ghazelian commemorated the 110th anniversary of composer Aram Khachaturian last Saturday. On Saturday 16 March, the Armenian Community in Egypt gathered at the Nubarian Armenian School in Heliopolis to listen to the Arax Choir conducted by Mihran Ghazelian. The event commemorated the 110th anniversary [...]

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The Great Canon at the Patriarchal Cathedral

March 23, 2013 Featured News

On 18 March 2013, His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church celebrated the service of the canon of Saint Andrew of Crete in the Patriarchal Cathedral. The canon service began at 16.00 hours, in the Cathedral, with hundreds of faithful attending. Because we are during the Lent period, the Primate of our Church [...]

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2013 Catechetical Homily of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew for the beginning of Great Lent

March 23, 2013 Featured News

+ B A R T H O L O M E W By the Mercy of God Archbishop of Constantinople-New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch 21/3/13 To the Plenitude of the Church Grace and Peace be with you from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ together with our Prayer, Blessing and Forgiveness Beloved brothers and sisters, [...]

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Brahmavar Diocese launched its website

March 23, 2013 Featured News

The Indian Malankara Orthodox Church The Brahmavar Autonomous Orthodox Church - Diocese of Brahmavar 23/3/13 www.moscdob.com The Website of Indian Malankara Orthodox Church Diocese of Brahmavar, www.moscdob.com was inaugurated by Diocesan Metropolitan HG Yakoob Mar Elias at Abu Dhabi St. George Orthodox Cathedral on 15 March 2013 in the presence of Vicars Rev. Fr. V C Jose and Fr. Cheriyan [...]

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