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Islamists Warn Christians From Demonstrating to Topple Egyptian President

June 17, 2013 Featured News

15/6/13 Mary Abdelmassih Assyrian International News Agency (AINA) — The youth-led Tamarod (rebel) Initiative has collected more than their targeted 15,000,000 signatures calling for a no-confidence vote against President Mohammed Morsi and forcing early elections in Egypt, causing the ruling Muslim Brotherhood party and its Islamists partners to feel seriously threatened, say political observers. Millions [...]

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Donelson Coptic Church destroyed under huge fire

June 17, 2013 Featured News

17/6/13 UPDATE: 8:54 a.m. Investigators are still working to determine the cause of the fire that destroyed St. Mary Coptic Orthodox Church in Donelson on Sunday. Nashville Fire spokeswoman Kim Lawson said the fire did not appear to be suspicious. Reported earlier Flames tore through a Donelson church Sunday, leaving a charred shell of a [...]

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Feast of the Ascension of the Lord at the Patriarchal Cathedral

June 17, 2013 Featured News

On 13 June 2013, the Orthodox Church celebrated the Ascension of the Lord and the Day of the Heroes. In all the places of worship from the country and abroad, after the Divine Liturgy, remembrance services were celebrated for those who sacrificed themselves for defending the Romanian people. At the Patriarchal Cathedral the religious service [...]

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Colorado Springs faithful ask prayers in wake of Black Forest fire

June 17, 2013 Featured News
Colorado Springs church not in danger; numerous parishioners affected.

17/6/13 In the midst of what Colorado officials described on Thursday, June 13, 2013 as “the most destructive fire in state history,” Archpriest Anthony Karbo and the faithful of Saints Constantine and Helen/Holy Theophany Church here once again are requesting prayers, nearly one year to the day after they faced the Waldo Canyon fire. What [...]

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His Holiness Aram I heads delegation to the Presidential Palace

June 17, 2013 Featured News

17/6/13 On Saturday morning, 15 June 2013, His Holiness Aram I, accompanied by the Diocesan Bishops of the Catholicosate of Cilicia and 30 persons representing the General Assembly, met with H.E. Michel Sleiman, President of Lebanon. Catholicos Aram I first thanked the President for putting the case of Lebanon on the international agenda and for [...]

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The General Assembly of the Catholicosate of Cilicia opens in Antelias

June 17, 2013 Featured News

17/6/13 “The Catholicosate of Cilicia remains true to its vocation of upholding spiritual, moral and national values, building a common Armenian belonging, and demanding justice and restitution of our rights stemming from the Genocide,” Said Aram I On Wednesday 12 June 2013, the General Assembly began its deliberations under the presidency of His Holiness Aram [...]

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The Ascension of Jesus – the Patron Saint-day of the City of Belgrade and Ascension Church

June 17, 2013 Featured News

  14/6/13 The feast-day of the Serbian capital, Belgrade – the Ascension of the Lord was solemnly celebrated also this year. A joyful celebration of the feast day began with the Holy Hierarchal Liturgy, which was served by His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch, in the church of the Ascension of the Lord, with the concelebration [...]

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1700 years of Edict of Milan

June 17, 2013 Featured News

Come, o people, and see the works of God Who works wonders on the earth! 11/6/13 Behold, the year of the Lord’s goodness which has given us a rare and true celebration: it has been given us to celebrate 1700 years since the day when the Providence of God spoke through the holy Emperor Constantine [...]

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Coptic Orthodox Church grows in Glenbrook

June 17, 2013 Featured News

Kate King – 17/6/13 STAMFORD — The St. Peter & St. Andrew Coptic Orthodox congregation doesn’t have a church of its own yet, but its parishioners are already part of Glenbrook. Father Andrew Awad established the church last year and is focused on introducing the congregation to Stamford. The congregation, which rents worship space from [...]

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Department of Antiquities unearths Byzantine church in Jerash

June 15, 2013 Featured News

Gioia Forster/ Jordan Times – 15/6/13 AMMAN — Looting of archaeological sites in Jordan is a widespread problem, yet this time it has brought to light the mosaic floor of a previously undiscovered Byzantine-era church near the Roman city of Jerash. “Underneath about a metre of soil, the mosaic floor of Kanisat Qirmerl was almost [...]

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Your Travels: Finding the way on Jesus Trail

June 15, 2013 Featured News

By Kay Martin Special for The Republic 15/6/13 We intended to hike the 40-mile Jesus Trail from Nazareth to Capernaum. In Nazareth we checked into the Fauzi Azar Inn near the beginning of the trail. The next morning, we followed the orange dots to the top of Nazareth and down the road. After 5 miles [...]

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Small Island

June 15, 2013 Featured News

Helena Drysdale – 15/6/13 As anti-Islamist violence erupted across Turkey, another threat to the ambitions of Recep Tayyip Erdogan was the rising tension between Christians and majority Muslims. The problem stands out on Halki, home to a venerated and endangered Orthodox seminary. “You can’t come in,” snaps the moustachioed guard in front of the gates. [...]

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Egypt’s Brotherhood ‘exclusionary political sect’: Bishop

June 15, 2013 Featured News

Ahram Online – 15/6/13 Bishop Moussa says Muslim Brotherhood, President Morsi need to interact with all Egyptian citizens, Islamist forces, civic groups and Coptic Christians. Bishop Moussa, head of Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox Church’s Youth Bishopric, advised President Mohamed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood to abandon the concept of an “Islamic caliphate state” and reach out [...]

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Visit by Ethiopia’s Orthodox Church head to Cairo postponed

June 15, 2013 Featured News

13/6/13 A planned visit by the head of Ethiopia’s Orthodox Tewahedo Church to Cairo is postponed while officials scrabble for a diplomatic compromise on Ethiopia’s contentious Renaissance Dam project. A planned visit by the Patriarch of the Ethiopian Tewahedo Orthodox Church to Cairo has been postponed, Al-Ahram Arabic news website has reported. The Ethiopian church [...]

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Patriarch Kirill begins a primatial visit to Estonia

June 15, 2013 Featured News

On June 14, 2013, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia has arrived in Estonia. At the airport, he was met by Metropolitan Cornelius of Tallinn and All Estonia, Bishop Lazar of Narva and Prichudye, Estonia’s State Secretary Heiki Loot, Russian ambassador to Estonia, Yu, Merzlyakov, and Belarus’s Charges-des-Affaires V. Lazerko. The delegation [...]

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Patriarchs Rahi and Yazigi call on foreign sides to stop interference in Syria

June 14, 2013 Featured News

14/6/13 BEIRUT, (SANA) – Cardinal Mar Bechara al-Rahi, Patriarch of Antioch and All the East of Maronite Church, and Patriarch John X Yazigi of Antioch and All the East for Greek Orthodox Church called on all foreign sides to stop interference in Syria. After their meeting Thursday at the Patriarchate in Bkirki, the two patriarchs [...]

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Former Taliban From Afghanistan Baptized at the Monastic Republic of Mount Athos

June 14, 2013 Featured News

  13/6/13 Ahmed was born and raised in a village in Afghanistan in the middle of war. His childhood memories are dust, poverty, and compulsory Islamic education in the sacred writings and war. “I do not remember anymore who fought whom, however there was constant warfare.” For years he worked for the Taliban doing various [...]

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ICHAMARA ORTHODOX SECONDARY SCHOOL SEEKING SUPPORT

June 14, 2013 Featured News

13/6/13 OCP News Service Kenya Archdiocese of Kenya Kenya: The only school in Nyeri County, founded by the local parish of ST.Anthony the Great under the stewardship of Fr.Philip Maina Gathari in 2006, opened its doors for students in 2007. The only Orthodox Secondary School owned by a local Church under the jurisdiction of Orthodox [...]

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Sourp Kevork Armenian Church in Mardin Selected as “One of the 7 Most Threatened Landmarks in Europe”

June 13, 2013 Featured News

13/6/13 The Sourp Kevork (St. George) Armenian Apostolic Church (Mardin,Turkey) has been selected as one of the seven most threatened landmarks in Europe by Europa Nostra, a leading European heritage organization. The announcement was made yesterday by Europa Nostra, together with the European Investment Bank Institute, at a press conference in Athens, on the eve [...]

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Pope Tawadros II and Holy Synod enthrones 4 bishops, consecrates 7

June 13, 2013 Featured News

13/6/13 The 118th Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of All Africa on the holy Apostolic See of Saint Mark, His Holiness Pope Tawadros II and over 60 members of the Holy Synod consecrated 7 bishops and enthroned 4 existing bishops on 10 March 2013 in the Grand Cathedral of St Mark, Cairo, Egypt. Having taken [...]

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The role of the church is spiritual, pope says

June 13, 2013 Featured News

Al-Masry Al-Youm - 13/6/13 Coptic Pope Tawadros II has stressed the spiritual role of Egypt’s Christian church, as the debate surrounding Copts joining 30 June protests grows. “God is the Lord of history, the adjudicator of history and the leader of the movement of history,” the pope said during a Council of Churches meeting on Tuesday. [...]

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Egypt Finally Permits Another Church Building (But 149 More Still Pending)

June 13, 2013 Featured News

World Watch Monitor – 13/6/13 Why did President Mohamed Morsi choose to approve his first church permit now? (WWM) Seventeen years have elapsed since the Coptic Church first requested permission to build a church in the town of Nubaria, Northern Egypt. Last Friday, their wish was granted. But not all Egyptian Christians are lining up [...]

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What an Orthodox bishop thinks you should know about the Book of Revelation

June 13, 2013 Featured News

11/6/13 – Joel J. Miller Yesterday I posted a Q&A with Fr. Mark Arey about his stunning new graphic novel of Revelation. It features a fresh translation of John’s Apocalypse, all 404 of its enigmatic verses, along with some 570 images to illumine the text. Though today Christians seem somewhat obsessed with Revelation, that wasn’t [...]

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Eritrea: Christians Continue to Face Persecution

June 13, 2013 Featured News

Joseph DeCaro, Worthy News Correspondent – 13/6/13 ASMARA, ERITREA (Worthy News)– Religious persecution in Eritrea is at its highest ever and getting even worse, according to World Watch Monitor, the news outlet of Open Doors, a Christian charity that ranked Eritrea 10th on its World Watch List. This year alone, 191 Christians have already been [...]

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Egypt’s Coptic pope holds meeting on Nile row before meeting Ethiopian counterpart

June 12, 2013 Featured News

Ahram Online – 12/6/13 Coptic Pope Tawadros II meets with Egyptian church representatives to discuss Nile file in advance of scheduled trip to Cairo by head of Ethiopia’s Orthodox Tewahedo Church. Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II held a meeting with Egyptian Christian public figures on Tuesday to discuss the ongoing row over Ethiopia’s Grand [...]

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