Eritrean Orthodox

Abba Seraphim visits Eritrean Church in Birmingham

September 15, 2012 Featured News

British-Eriterian Orthodox Churches On 8 September Abba Seraphim celebrated the Divine Liturgy at St. George’s Church, Bridge Street, Newtown, Birmingham, at the invitation of Father Mulebrhan, the newly ordained priest for the local Eritrean Orthodox community within the Diocese of Europe, under His Grace Bishop Makarios. Assisting him were Father Mulebrhan and Father Yonas Tesheme [...]

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Petition Campaign to Save Historic Syriac Orthodox Monastery in Mardin

July 13, 2012 Featured News

12/7/2012 Some 300 writers, academics and artists in have joined a petition campaign to protest a verdict by the Turkish Supreme Court of Appeals to nationalize the estates of the Mor Gabriel Monastery (Mardin), the oldest surviving Syriac Orthodox monastery in the world, dating back to 397 AD. Established in 397 A.D., the Mor Gabriel [...]

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Imprisoned Head Of Eritrean Orthodox Church In Urgent Need Of Medical Attention

March 14, 2012 Featured News
His Holiness Patriarch Abune Antonios of Eritrea

14/3/2012 Eritrean Orthodox Church Sign Petition to restore Patriac Abune Antonios here: Read Exclusive article on the persecution of Christians in Eritrea: March 14, 2012 Washington DC (International Christian Concern) –Patriarch Antonios, who has been imprisoned for his faith, is a diabetic and his situation is deteriorating due to lack of medical attention. The Patriarch [...]

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ŒCOCW Calls for International Religious Freedom for Exiled Eritrean Orthodox Patriarch

January 22, 2012 News

22/1/2012 The Holy Synod of the Œcumenical Canonical Orthodox Church Worldwide (ŒCOCW) joins the faithful of the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahdo Church in demanding religious freedom for its exiled Patriarch. According to a report by George Alexander, Secretary of the Orthodoxy Cognate Media Network, a significant portion of the Christian population in Eritrea are being severely [...]

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The Detained Patriarch, Persecuted Christians and a Dying Church

January 18, 2012 Featured News
Asmara, the Eritrean Capital

18/1/2012 This is not just an article; rather I would like to shed some light into the pathetic conditions of Christians in Eritrea, which requires high volume of international attention and help. As we all know Eritrea is a country situated in the ‘Horn of Africa’, bordered by Sudan in the west, Ethiopia in the [...]

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Abba Seraphim ordains priest for Eritrean Orthodox

November 20, 2011 Featured News

20/11/2011 The British-Eritrean Orthodox Churches At the request of His Grace Bishop Makarios, Overseer of the North American Archdiocese of the Eritrean Orthodox Church and Bishop of the Eritrean Orthodox Church in diaspora, Abba Seraphim ordained Deacon Habtom Ftuwi, to serve the Medhane Alem Eritrean Orthodox community in Manchester. Abba Seraphim’s contact with the Manchester [...]

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Ordination of Forty Nine New Deacons

March 25, 2009 News

Diocese of Eritrean Orthodox Church,North AmericaOn Sunday March 8, 2009, forty one servants were ordained to the ranks of Deacons, assistant Deacons, readers and singers through the blessed hands of His Grace Bishop Youssef, Bishop of the Coptic Orthodox Diocese of the Southern United States. The ordination took place at Saint Mary Coptic Church, …

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