Afghanistan

Syria’s future lies in ruins

October 20, 2012 Featured News

William Dalrymple The Gurdian 18/10/2012 To mourn Syria’s devastated archaeological and architectural heritage may seem trivial. Yet with it die precious traditions. Few forms of conflict are so damaging to a country or its people as a prolonged civil war. By 1939, when Franco’s forces had finished mopping up the last Republican resistance in Spain, [...]

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St. Vladimir’s Seminary Pres’s Children’s Book Receives Gold Medal

October 11, 2012 Featured News

11/10/2012 SVS Press Purchase a copy of the book here: [SVOTS Communications / Yonkers, NY] St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press (SVS Press)— the publishing arm of St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary in Yonkers, NY—has garnered a gold medal for its storybook, Saint George & the Dragon, written by Jim Forest and illustrated in iconographic style by [...]

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Fatal lot of Christianity’s homelands

August 9, 2012 Featured News

WILLIAM DALRYMPLE The Australian 9/8/2012 WHEREVER you go in the Middle East today, you see the Arab Spring rapidly turning into the Christian winter. The past few years have been catastrophic for the region’s beleaguered 14-million strong Christian minority. In Egypt, the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood has been accompanied by anti-Coptic riots and intermittent [...]

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Chaplain Cwiklinski ministering in Afghanistan

August 8, 2012 News

SYOSSET, NY [OCA] 8/8/2012 Father Jerome Cwiklinski, CPT CHC USN, a priest of the Orthodox Church in America, is currently ministering in Afghanistan, where he is providing Orthodox Christian services at Camps Dwyer and Leatherneck and elsewhere as requested. His tour will last for about one month. Orthodox Christian service members may have their unit [...]

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SOME AFGHAN PARLIAMENT MEMBERS EMBRACED CHRISTIANITY

April 5, 2012 News

Iranian Christian news agency, Mohabat News 3/4/2012 Afghanistan, a country suffering from longstanding civil wars, has not seen the face of peace for a long period of time. Continuous bombings by fundamentalist Muslims have stolen peace from lives of Afghanis. However, more recently the country has been seeing some improvement in its situation and among [...]

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The World’s Worst Religious Persecutors – OpEd

March 21, 2012 Featured News

By Nina Shea 20/3/2012 Today, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (Uscirf) released its 14th annual report, which it is mandated to do under the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998. The report identifies the world’s worst persecutors and makes foreign-policy recommendations, which are non-binding, to the administration and Congress. Its decisions are based [...]

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Christians fear losing freedoms in Arab Spring movement

February 1, 2012 Featured News

By Oren Dorell and Sarah Lynch, USA TODAY 1/2/2012 CAIRO – From her home in a labyrinth of stonewalled alleyways, Samia Ramsis holds a key chain bearing the face of the Virgin Mary as she sits in her yellow pajamas on the morning of Orthodox Christmas. Sunlight pours in through a window. Outside, visitors come [...]

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Orthodox Christian Navy SEAL killed in Afghanistan to be laid to rest in Minnesota

August 21, 2011 News

18/8/2011 ST. PAUL, MN [OCA] A visitation for Chief Petty Offier John Weston Faas, 31, one of 22 Navy SEALs killed with eight other US troops when their helicopter was shot down in Afghanistan on August 6, 2011, will be held at Holy Trinity Church [OCA], 956 Forest St., St. Paul, from 6:30 until 8:00 [...]

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KYIV. Chair of the Committee of the Families of soldiers killed in Afghanistan Alla Shipova was awarded the Order of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church

August 18, 2011 News

Ukrainian Orthodox Church On August 14, the day of Procession of the Precious Wood of the Life-Giving Cross, Vicar of the Kyiv Metropolis Bishop Theodosius of Brovary, Chairman of the Synodal Department of the UOC for Pastoral Care of the soldiers-internationalists, celebrated the Divine Liturgy at the Resurrection (Afghan) Church of Kyiv, where he …

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Alexander the Great: Impressions Of The Community And 2011 Zoullas Lecture – Next Edition!

August 17, 2011 Featured News
Fresco of Alexander the Great in the Monastery of Varlaam, Meteora, Greece.

By Catherine Tsounis 17/8/2011 “There is and will be only one Alexander the Great in history,” said my late father, George, a WWII decorated POW. The handsome figure of a blonde, blue eyed youth on a black horse has mesmerized school age children for generations. Alexander the Great of Macedon spoke only Greek. He made [...]

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Bishop George in Afghanistan

January 2, 2011 News

Polish Orthodox Church On 22-23 December Orthodox Military Ordinary Bishop Jerzy (Pankowski) accompanied by Minister of National Defence Bogdan Klich took part in Christmas meeting that took place in Ghazni – a city in eastern Afghanistan, where in the local base of Polish Task Force military mission carries about 2,600 Polish soldiers. In the delegation [...]

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Consecration of Armenian Chapel in Afghanistan

August 2, 2010 News

Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin On July 24, with the blessing of His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians, His Grace Bishop Vertanes Abrahamian, Head Chaplain of the Republic of Armenia Armed Forces left for the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan with the delegation led by Mr. Seyran Ohanian, RA Minister of [...]

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Consecration of Armenian Chapel in Afghanistan

July 26, 2010 News

Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin On July 24, with the blessing of His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians, His Grace Bishop Vertanes Abrahamian, Head Chaplain of the Republic of Armenia Armed Forces left for the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan with the delegation led by Mr. Seyran Ohanian, RA Minister of [...]

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