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President Ilham Aliyev congratulates Orthodox Christians in Azerbaijan

May 4, 2013 Featured News

4/5/13 Baku – APA. President Ilham Aliyev has congratulated Orthodox Christian community of Azerbaijan, APA reports. The message of congratulations says: “Dear compatriots! I congratulate you on the sacred Easter, extend my best wishes to you. Throughout the centuries mutual respect, confidence and fraternal relations have existed among different nations and religions in the Azerbaijani [...]

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Georgia,Turkey Hold Mosque-for-Church Talks

March 28, 2013 News

Giorgi Lomsadze - 28/3/13 A new mosque will be a bridge between Turkey and Georgia, according to Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmed Davutoğlu, but, depending on how the matter is handled, the sanctuary could also become a wall between the two countries. Georgia, Turkey and Azerbaijan — the only three mutually friendly countries to be found in [...]

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Washington Community Remembers Sumgait Pogroms

March 4, 2013 News

4/3/13 WASHINGTON—Shouting “We Remember Sumgait” and “Justice for Gurgen Margaryan,” Greater Washington, DC area Armenian Americans braved freezing temperatures today to commemorate the victims of twenty-five years of Azerbaijani violence and to stand in solidarity with the people of the independent Republic of Nagorno Karabakh, in their effort to secure a fair and lasting peace. [...]

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Patriarch Kirill on four years as Patriarch: a lot has been done, a lot remains to do

February 3, 2013 Featured News

Moscow, February 1, Interfax – Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia served a liturgy in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior on the fourth anniversary of his enthronement as patriarch. “These four years were full of so many events that would be enough for forty years and even more,” the Patriarch said after the [...]

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‘No nuance of Orthodox community’s life escapes president’s attention’

January 10, 2013 Featured News
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10/1/13 There is no disagreement between the representatives of the various religious denominations in Azerbaijan. The statement came from Archbishop Alexander of Baku and Azerbaijan at a reception hosted by the Baku-Azerbaijan Diocese on the occasion of Christmas. “President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev congratulated the Azerbaijani people on the New Year, especially with a greeting [...]

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Religious leader congratulates Orthodox Christians of Azerbaijan

January 7, 2013 News

7/1/13 Caucasus Muslims Department chief Allahshukur Pashazade has congratulated the Archbishop of Baku and Azerbaijan, Alexander and the orthodox community of Azerbaijan on Christmas. “On behalf of Muslims and personally on my own behalf I congratulate you and all representatives of the orthodox community of Azerbaijan on Christmas. I share your happiness on occasion of [...]

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President congratulates Orthodox Christians

January 5, 2013 News
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5/1/2013 President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has congratulated the Orthodox Christian community of Azerbaijan on Christmas. The congratulatory message reads: “Dear fellow countrymen, I extend my heartfelt congratulations and best wishes to you and the whole Christian community of Azerbaijan on the holy Christmas-the birth of Prophet Jesus. World religions in Azerbaijan have peacefully coexisted [...]

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Armenian Americans demand Azeri axe-murderer’s re-incarceration

September 11, 2012 News

10/9/2012 PanARMENIAN.Net – Armenian Americans from throughout the Greater Washington DC area called Hungary’s release and Azerbaijan’s pardon and glorification of convicted axe-murderer Ramil Safarov a travesty of justice and pressed for the killer’s immediate re-incarceration, at a demonstration held in front of the Hungarian Embassy. “Hungary’s extradition of an unrepentant axe-murderer to Azerbaijan, where [...]

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Azerbaijani version of Patriarch Kirill’s book ‘Freedom and Responsibility: In a Search of Harmony’ presented in Baku

July 16, 2012 News

9/7/2012 On June 23, 2012, a presentation of the book by His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia ‘Freedom and Responsibility: In a Search for Harmony’ took place at the Muslim Board for the Caucasus. Published in 2008 in Russia, it is a collection of the Patriarch’s speeches and articles united under the [...]

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Russian Orthodox Church: Equality of different religions in Azerbaijan confirmed by actions

June 24, 2012 News

Trend I.Isabalayeva 23/6/2012 All religions in Azerbaijan are equal, and this is confirmed not only by documents, but also by actions, Bishop of Baku and Azerbaijan Alexander (Alexander Ishein) said on Saturday at the awarding ceremony with the Dostlug (Friendship) Order organized at the State Committee for Work with Religious Organizations. “Compared with other countries [...]

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Pilgrims allowed back into Azerbaijan monastery

May 23, 2012 Featured News

23/5/2012 GARDABANI, Georgia (AP) — Pilgrims to one of former Soviet Georgia’s most renowned monasteries, part of which lies in Azerbaijan, are again able to visit the entire complex after an agreement between two countries. Early this month, Azerbaijan began blocking pilgrims from visiting the approximately 2 percent of the David Gareja monastery complex inside [...]

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Georgian, Azerbaijani FMs Discuss Disputed Border Section in Monastery Complex Area

May 20, 2012 Featured News
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Civil Georgia, Tbilisi 19/5/2012 Georgian and Azerbaijani foreign ministers held a phone conversation on May 17 to discuss a recent controversy, caused after repositioning of Azerbaijani border guards on May 6 in a disputed border section running through Davit Gareji monastery complex, no longer allowing visitors from Georgia to access some of the sites of [...]

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Serbian Patriarch Irinej meets with delegation from Azerbaijan

May 5, 2012 News

3/5/2012 His Holiness Irinej received on May 2, 2012 in an official visit the delegation from Azerbaijan: Elcin Efendiyev, deputy Prime Minister of Azerbaijan; Archbishop Aleksandar Bakinski from the Russian Orthodox Church; Shejkulislam Allahshyukur Pashazde, President of Administration of Caucasian Muslims; Salaman Musayev, the first deputy President of the Administration of Caucasian Muslims; Mugedes Payizov, [...]

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Religious leaders appeal for Khojaly recognition

February 22, 2012 Featured News

22/2/2012 The heads of four religious denominations in Azerbaijan have issued an appeal to parliaments and heads of state to recognize the Khojaly massacre as genocide. The 20th anniversary of the massacre falls on Sunday 26 February. During the night of 25-26 February 1992, 613 Azerbaijani civilians were killed in an attack by Armenian forces, [...]

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Azerbaijani ambassador: Armenians try to represent Karabakh conflict as religious to Europe

February 3, 2012 News

Trend E.Tariverdiyeva 2/2/2012 Russia has recently proved that it wants the OSCE Minsk group to promote the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict, the Azerbaijani ambassador to Italy Vagif Sadikhov said in an interview with the Italian Limes newspaper. “Russian presidents have organised over 10 meetings between the Azerbaijani and Armenian presidents over the years. [...]

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Commentary: Georgia’s Chokehold on Armenia Reaches Critical Level

January 28, 2012 News

By Edmond Y. Azadian 26/1/2012 While Armenian news media outlets have been concentrating on the French Senate action criminalizing the denial of the Armenian Genocide, closer to home relations with neighboring Georgia are causing heartaches for citizens and government officials alike. Relations are tense, to say the least. Georgian authorities are cognizant that they have [...]

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Armenian residences of Tehran and Esfahan started 2012 in their Churches

January 10, 2012 Featured News

10/1/2012 Armenian residences of Iran moved to Iran in 1605 when Shah Abbas was ruling over the country. Most of the Armenian immigrants settled in the cities of Tehran, Esfahan, Azerbaijan-Sharghi and Azerbaijan-Gharbi and today their seeds continue to live there. The New Year celebrations is being held every year in greatest and the most [...]

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President congratulates Azerbaijan’s Orthodox Christian Community

January 6, 2012 News
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5/1/2012 President Ilham Aliyev congratulated Azerbaijan’s Orthodox Christian community on Christmas. The letter reads: “I congratulate the whole Christian community of Azerbaijan on the occasion of Christmas and I extend my heartfelt greetings and best wishes to you on such a dear day. Religions and confessions in Azerbaijan famous a model of tolerance, place of [...]

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Religious Leaders Call For Sniper Withdrawal In Nagorno-Karabakh

November 30, 2011 Featured News

30/11/2011 YEREVAN — The leading religious leaders of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Russia have called for a withdrawal of snipers from the front lines in the disputed breakaway Azerbaijani region of Nagorno-Karabakh to stop bloodshed amid more reported casualties in the conflict zone, RFE/RL’s Armenian Service reports. Russian Patriarch Kiril read out a statement that he [...]

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Controversial Visit: Religious leader of Azerbaijan “is not afraid” to say “all that needs to be said” in Yerevan

November 28, 2011 Featured News

By ARIS GHAZINYAN ArmeniaNow reporter 28/11/2011 Sheikh ul-Islam and Grand Mufti of the Caucasus Allahshukur Pashazade’s visit to Yerevan is in the focus of public attention, and not only because he represents Azerbaijan. Pashazade arrived in Yerevan Monday, to participate in the meeting of the Presidium of the CIS Inter-Religious Council, along with leaders and [...]

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Russian patriarch awarded Order of Sheikh ul-Islam

November 23, 2011 News

22/11/2011 The chairman of the Caucasus Muslims’ Department, Sheikh-ul-Islam Allahshukur Pashazade, has attended the Russian patriarch’s birthday celebrations. On behalf of the Muslims of Azerbaijan and the Caucasus, the sheikh awarded Patriarch Kirill the Order of the Sheikh ul-Islam for his personal contribution to the development of interreligious and interethnic dialogue, the strengthening of cultural [...]

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Orthodox bishop praises freedom of religion in Azerbaijan

September 22, 2011 News

22/9/2011 Bishop Alexander of the Baku and Azerbaijan Eparchy of the Russian Orthodox Church has praised religious freedom in Azerbaijan. He made the comments in a report to a round table on “Our independence and national and moral values” at the State Committee for Work with Religious Organizations on Thursday, Gun.Az reported. “We are marking [...]

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The ‘last’ among the world’s ‘first’ Christians

September 13, 2011 News
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12/9/2011 NIJ, Azerbaijan – Newspapermen like myself often seek to understand the history of Azeris in this country, the Armenians next door, Turkey’s Kurds, Iran’s Ba’hai or Egypt’s Copts. But what do we know of Iraq’s 60,000 Shaleks, Iran’s 5,000 remaining Mandeans or the 50,000 Mhallami of Turkey? Not much. Which was the nature of [...]

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First Georgian Orthodox Church to appear in Kazakhstan

September 13, 2011 News

Azerbaijan, Baku 13/9/2011 Georgian Orthodox Church is planned to be constructed in Kazakhstan, Novosti-Kazakhstan reported referring to Georgian media. On 17 September delegation of Georgian Orthodox Church will arrive to Astana. These days the main relic of Russian “near abroad” which is Kursk icon of Virgin Mary will be brought to Kazakhstan. During the visit [...]

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Azerbaijan to finance restoration of mosque, Orthodox church in Serbia

July 26, 2011 News

26/7/2011 Azerbaijan will assume financing of restoration of the orthodox church of Saint Peter and Bayrakly Mosque in Serbia. The statement came from Azerbaijan’s ambassador to Romania and Serbia Eldar Hasanov. ‘We have decided to restore the historical mosque Bayrakli dated to the Ottoman empire in Belgrade and medrese that was burnt by Serbian radicals [...]

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