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West has betrayed Christianity, Russia will save it – Orthodox Church official

by OCP May 15, 2012 Featured News

14/5/2012 Countries of the “Russian world” are capable of changing the globe within ten years, believes top cleric of the Russian Orthodox Church Vsevolod Chaplin. By the “Russian world” he means states with a historically strong tradition of Orthodox Christianity which, apart from Russia, include Ukraine, Belarus, Greece, Romania and several others. “Our Orthodox civilization [...]

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Eastern Christian countries capable of altering humankind in 10 years – Archpriest Chaplin

by OCP May 15, 2012 News

Moscow, May 14, Interfax – Russia, Ukraine, Byelorussia and other Eastern Christian countries are meant to change the entire humankind together, the head of the Synodal Department for Church and Society Relations archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin has said. “Our Christian Orthodox, Eastern Slavic civilization is not the most numerous but it is central because it is [...]

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One Armenian’s Fateful Escape from the Titanic

by OCP April 14, 2012 Featured News
Krekprian rarely spoke about his experience on the Titanic

BY DAISY SINDELAR From Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty 14/4/2012 Neshan Krekorian was barely in his twenties when his father urged him to emigrate from western Armenia and start a new life far away across the Atlantic Ocean. Thousands of Armenians were doing the same, in a bid to escape rising violence and persecution at the [...]

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Hopes to Revive the Christian Area of Turkey

by OCP April 5, 2012 Featured News
Orthodox Christians at Sumela Monastery, 15 August 2010/Umit Bektas

By SUSANNE GÜSTEN 4/4/2012 IDIL, TURKEY — Clambering over the rubble of what was once his hometown, Robert Tutus pointed to a spot just up the road from where his family’s house had stood. “This is where my father was assassinated,” he said. “Two men walked up to him as he was returning home one [...]

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Europe bishops slam Saudi fatwa against Gulf churches

by OCP March 24, 2012 Featured News

By Tom Heneghan, Religion Editor 24/3/2012 PARIS (Reuters) – Christian bishops in Germany, Austria and Russia have sharply criticised Saudi Arabia’s top religious official after reports that he issued a fatwa saying all churches on the Arabian Peninsula should be destroyed. In separate statements on Friday, the Roman Catholic bishops in Germany and Austria slammed [...]

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Bulgarian Archaeologists Claim Oldest Monastery in Europe

by OCP March 19, 2012 Featured News
The ancient shrine at the St. Athanasius monastery in Bulgaria's Stara Zagora region. Photo by BGNES

19/3/2012 Bulgarian archaeologists have uncovered what they believe is the oldest Christian monastery in Europea near the village of Zlatna Livada in southern Bulgaria. According to latest archaeological research, the St. Athanasius monastery, still functioning near the village, has been founded in 344 by St. Athanasius himself, reports the BGNES agency. Until now, the Candida [...]

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5.0 Magnitude Earthquake Shakes Mount Athos

by OCP March 11, 2012 News

Fani Toli 4/3/2012 An earthquake of magnitude 5.0 on the Richter scale occurred on Mount Athos in Chalkidiki at 05.30 on Sunday morning, 30 ​​km west of Mount Athos. It has been confirmed that no damage or injuries had been reported, while Professor of Geology at the University of Athens, Efthymios Lekkas, gave an interview [...]

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Orthodox Believers Stand Up For Jailed Anti-Putin Punk Rockers

by OCP March 10, 2012 Featured News
Sympathizers rallied in support of Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova outside a Moscow police station on March 8.

9/3/2012 Radio Free Europe Public outrage is mounting over the jailing of two Russian women accused of staging an illegal anti-Kremlin performance in Moscow’s largest church. Investigators claim the pair belong to the all-girl dissident punk group Pussy Riot that broke into Christ the Savior Cathedral last month and performed a caustic “punk prayer” from [...]

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Turkey warns Europe against mounting racism, Islamophobia

by OCP February 6, 2012 News
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said France's legislation was introduced because of a racist and discriminatory attitude toward his country.

1/2/2012 ANKARA: Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday warned of rising racism and Islamophobia in Europe as he once again denounced a recent French bill outlawing denial of Armenian genocide. The French bill, was a “serious manifestation of an insidious danger in Europe”, he said. “There is an undeniable racist approach, a racist [...]

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

by OCP 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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Georgia wants CoE to take charge of its Orthodox monuments in Abkhazia

by OCP January 28, 2012 News

Strasbourg, January 25, Interfax – Georgian parliamentarians are going to draw the attention of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) to what in their view is a deplorable state of the historical monuments of the Georgian Christian Orthodox Culture in Abkhazia. “Georgian representatives in the Council of Europe have long raised the [...]

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Aram I urges Europe to develop interfaith relations

by OCP January 28, 2012 News

26/1/2012 PanARMENIAN.Net – Archbishop of Canterbury’s Interfaith Dialogues Assistant Rana Kahn visited residence of the Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia Aram I. During the meeting the Assistant dwelled on the activity that the Anglican Church promotes in England and in Europe. The sides further exchanged views on cooperation and relations between Christian and [...]

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Opinion: Time to rethink how we relate to Christians

by OCP January 26, 2012 News

25/1/2012 Jews are known for their intellect, and for legitimate reasons. The number of Jewish recipients of Nobel Prizes, for example, is wildly disproportionate to the Jewish proportion of the world’s population. Jews make up about one-fifth of 1 percent of the world’s population, yet they have received about 20 percent of the Nobel Prizes [...]

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Hellenism in Vienna Honors the Late Metropolitan Michael of Austria

by OCP January 25, 2012 News

Fani Toli 23/1/2012 Many Greeks in Central Europe attended the requiem Liturgy being held in honor of the late Greek Orthodox Metropolitan of Austria-Exarch of Hungary and Central Europe Michael at Hagia Triada Church in the Greek historical area in Vienna. Representatives of the Ecumenical Patriarchate were also present at the requiem Liturgy, as well [...]

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Europe No Longer Center of Christian Faith

by OCP December 23, 2011 News

BY BRUCE WALKER 20/12/2011 Christianity was once so localized to Europe that the term “Christendom” largely meant Europe. After the fall of Constantinople in 1453, the last outpost of Christian rule in the East was lost. The history of Medieval Europe was flecked with Christians holding back Islam. The Battle of Tours in France prevented [...]

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Christianity is world’s largest religion, says Pew Forum survey

by OCP December 20, 2011 Featured News

By JohnThomas Didymus 20/12/2011 Christianity is the world’s largest religion, so says a new Pew Forum Survey called “Global Christianity.” According to the survey, about half of all the world’s Christians are Catholics, with Protestants accounting for 37%, and Orthodox Christians 12%. The Pew Forum reports about one-third of the world’s people, that is, 2.2 [...]

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Christianity Sees Major Shifts In 100 Years, Percentage Of Population Remains Constant

by OCP December 19, 2011 Featured News

19/12/2011 Washington, D.C. — With Christmas fast approaching, the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life published a new comprehensive demographic report on the size and distribution of the world’s Christian population. The study finds that there are 2.18 billion Christians of all ages in more than 200 countries around the world, representing [...]

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Religious structure of Armenians

by OCP December 9, 2011 Featured News

6/12/2011 YEREVAN. – A scientific conference entitled “Religious structure of Armenians: challenges and opportunities” will take place in Yerevan on Friday and Saturday. Armenia’s Ministry of Diaspora, Hixox foundation and Noravank foundation organize the event. Special attention will be paid to the preservation of national identity by different Armenian religious sectors to interfaith harmony. Due [...]

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Christians happiest people in Europe: survey

by OCP December 9, 2011 News

8/12/2011 A study of the effect of religion on happiness has revealed that Christians are the happiest people in Europe. The study was an empirical analysis of the effect of religion on happiness, using data from three waves (2002/2003, 2004 and 2006) of the European Social Survey (ESS) covering 114,019 individuals in 24 different countries. [...]

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Hellenism Honours the Late Metropolitan Michael of Austria

by OCP November 30, 2011 News

28/11/2011 Hellenism of Central Europe attended the requiem mass being held in honor of the late Greek Orthodox Metropolitan of Austria-Exarch of Hungary and Central Europe Michael at Hagia Triada Church of the Greek historical area in Vienna. Representatives of the Greek and Cypriot authorities were also present to the requiem mass as well as [...]

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Is liberalism killing the copts?

by OCP November 19, 2011 Featured News

Marc Michael 18/11/2011 One consequence of neo-liberal policies under Mubarak lead to religious ghettoisation of Egypt says author. Cambridge, United Kingdom – On ‘bloody’ Sunday October 9th, about 20 Copts were crushed flat on the pavement by berserk military police and their armoured vehicles, seven shot dead, and 300 wounded in a bleak and larger-than-life [...]

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“Palestinian Theologian” Trashes “Palestinian Theology”

by OCP November 10, 2011 News

by Malcolm Lowe 10/11/2011 For over two decades, parts of the Christian world have been bemused by the writings of self-styled “Palestinian Christian theologians.” Since their brightest lights are Protestant pastors, they are minor figures among the overwhelmingly Orthodox and Catholic faithful of the Holy Land. But they are strangely popular in Liberal Protestant circles [...]

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Orthodox church at the gates of Purgatory

by OCP November 9, 2011 News

Laurenţiu Mihu 9/11/2011 In Bucharest and in Athens, the exacerbation of the economic crisis has undermined public tolerance for the privileges enjoyed by the Orthodox Church. If things do not change, warns România Liberă, the organisation runs the risk of paying a heavy cultural tribute. With each passing day, the crisis that has swept across [...]

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Peresopnytsia Gospel presented and the exhibition about Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra opened at the Council of Europe

by OCP November 9, 2011 Featured News

7/11/2011 STRASBOURG – KYIV: With the blessing of His Beatitude Volodymyr, Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine on November 7, under the chairmanship of Ukraine in the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, the Peresopnytsia Gospels was presented, and the photo exhibition devoted to the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra opened. In this regard, [...]

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Tax Breaks Planned For Armenian Church

by OCP October 29, 2011 News

Sargis Harutyunyan 28.10.2011 In a further boost to the Armenian Apostolic Church, Armenia is poised to introduce major tax breaks for hundreds of worship sites and other properties belonging to the ancient institution. The Armenian parliament approved this week in the first reading a set of government-drafted legal amendments that would exempt them from property [...]

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