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Ecumenical Patriarchate, European bishops to commemorate Edict of Milan

May 17, 2013 News

17/5/13 The Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, in conjunction with the Council of the Bishops’ Conferences of Europe (CCEE), is commemorating the 1700th anniversary of the Edict of Milan by hosting a conference devoted to religious freedom. The edict, issued by Constantine, granted “to the Christians and others full authority to observe that religion which each [...]

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Religious Freedom Today-Emperor Constantine’s Edict of Milan: 1700 years later

May 17, 2013 Featured News

Istanbul, Turkey 5/16/2013 Istanbul, Turkey, 17-18 May 2013 1700 years have passed since 313 when, through the Milan Edict of Toleration, Emperor Constantine granted freedom of conscience and freedom of worship to all cults, thus putting an end to centuries of persecution against Christians in the Roman Empire. Since then, Christians have enjoyed religious freedom, [...]

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‘Russia’s spiritual revival might inspire’ Western Europe

May 8, 2013 Featured News

7/5/13 The spiritual revival of Russia might inspire Christians in Western European countries that have adopted anti-religious laws’. This was stated by head of the Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill after a service at the Novodevichy Monastery in Moscow to celebrate the anniversary of the return to the Church of the Iberian Mother of God [...]

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Catholicos Karekin II meets CoE Secretary General

April 19, 2013 News

18/4/13 PanARMENIAN.Net - On April 18, Catholicos of All Armenians Karekin II met with Secretary General of the Council of Europe Thorbjørn Jagland. Karekin II highly assessed the support of Council of Europe in Armenia’s reform implementation, noting that Armenia’s presence in the institution significantly contributes to the strengthening of democratic processes in the country. Catholicos Karekin II voiced [...]

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Two Armenian churches shortlisted as Europe’s most threatened archaeological sites and landmarks

April 19, 2013 Featured News

18/4/13 YEREVAN, APRIL 18, ARMENPRESS: Church of St Peter and St Paul in Aragatsotn, Armenia and St George Armenian Church in Turkey  have been shortlisted as Europe’s most threatened archaeological sites and landmarks for a rescue mission by heritage body Europa Nostra, reports Armenpress referring to The Guardian. A total of 14 archaeological sites, religious buildings, [...]

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Eritrea: Ruthless Kidnapping Rings Reach From Desert Sands to U.S. Cities

April 2, 2013 News

Joel Millman – March 2013 Ruthless Kidnapping Rings Reach From Desert Sands to U.S. Cities CAMPBELL, Calif.—Ande Zerasion’s voice chokes up reliving the sound of his daughter pleading for help: “Baba, I am in Sinai. Please call me.” It was early October, recalls Mr. Zerasion, a 35-year-old refugee from the tiny African country of Eritrea [...]

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His Holiness visits Diocese of Middle Europe

April 2, 2013 News

2/4/13 His Holiness Irinej, Archbishop of Pec, Metropolitan of Belgrade-Karlovci and Serbian Patriarch, in capacity of the administrator, visited the Diocese of Middle Europe for the second time in the last two months. His Holiness arrived in Frankfurt on Wednesday, 27 March, at the airport where he was welcomed by bishop’s deputy, protopresbyter-stavrophor Milan Pejic [...]

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Lamenting Jerusalem: The Armenian Quarter In The Old City

March 30, 2013 Featured News

BY TAMAR BOYADJIAN – 30/3/13 For the last two millennia, Jerusalem has been represented as a space of desire – a place that has been perennially occupied and lost, and an area of which the borders are contested until today. Jerusalem – as both a spiritual and secular space – has over the years attracted [...]

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Bishop warns of “toughest times” for Serbs since 2004 pogrom

January 25, 2013 Featured News

TANJUG – 25/1/13 BELGRADE — A SPC bishop based in Kosovo has said that the position of the Serb people in Kosovo and Metohija (KiM) has not been this difficult ever since March 2004. Ethnic Albanians at that time organized widespread attacks on Serbs, their property, and holy places. “Eight full years have passed since [...]

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New media cracks Eritrea’s iron curtain

December 17, 2012 Featured News

Martin Plaut - 17/12/12 Isolated in exile, young Eritreans have developed new forms of resistance. Young Eritreans, who have fled abroad to escape their government’s stifling repression and years of compulsory military service, have turned to new media to attack the regime. Over the last year they have used chat-rooms, phone messaging and flash-mobs to get [...]

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NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Europe in Patriarchate of Pec

October 17, 2012 Featured News

15/10/2012 Admiral James Stavridis, NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Europe, visited  with KFOR Commander Folker Halbauer Stauropegial Laura of the Patriarchate of Pec in Metohija on Thursday, October 11, 2012 . Admiral Stavridis was welcomed by His Grace Kyr Jovan, Bishop of Lipljan, Vicar Bishop of the Serbian Patriarch, who informed him about the treasure of [...]

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European Parliament holds seminar on Discrimination of Christians in Europe

October 12, 2012 Featured News

9.10.2012 A seminar on the Discrimination of Christians in Europe was held on October 2, 2012, in the European Parliament in Brussels. Organized together by parliamentarians from the European People’s Party, the Alliance of European Conservatives and Reformists and the Catholic Commission of Bishops’ Conferences, the EU seminar gathered together several hundred participants from among [...]

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Christianity under threat in Sarajevo

September 13, 2012 Featured News

13/9/2012 SARAJEVO: The head of the Serbian Orthodox Church has warned that Christianity was under threat in Sarajevo, as Muslim and Christian clerics argued during talks meant to promote reconciliation. “Christianity is very threatened here,” Patriarch Irinej said in an interview with Bosnian Serb public television during his visit to Sarajevo, adding the Serb population [...]

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BACKGROUND: Middle East Christians suffer persecution and expulsion

September 13, 2012 News

By our dpa-correspondent and Europe Online 13/9/2012 Berlin (dpa) – More than 15 million Christians are thought to be living in the Arab world, although estimates are complicated by the fact that official statistics often put their numbers much lower than the Christian communities do themselves. The rising influence of Islamists has frequently been accompanied [...]

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Eritrean UK Subdiocese of Europe Committee meets with Abba Seraphim

September 1, 2012 Featured News

Oriental Orthodox Churches Eritrean- British Orthodox Churches 1/9/2012 On 27 August, 2012 the Committee of the Eritrean Orthodox UK subdiocese of Europe met together with Abba Seraphim in Charlton to confer on their mission and progress. Prayers were said for the entire European diocese and especially for His Grace Bishop Makarios, whose ministry in caring [...]

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Greek politicians eye Orthodox Church’s income, expenses as target for budget cuts

August 12, 2012 News

12/8/2012 Listen Mp3 In Greece, the Orthodox Church is tied financially to the state. The state pays some priests and exempts the church and its activities from any taxes. But with tight economic times, some politicians are calling for the relationship to be adjusted. No one expects the Greek government to take a hard-line against [...]

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Persecuting Christianity… in Europe

July 13, 2012 News

Milena Faustova Moscow Times 11/7/2012 The Russian Orthodox Church is going to challenge in court a ban on wearing crucifixes, which was recently introduced in the UK. Russian priests, together with Russian lawyers, intend to help two UK women who were recently fired from work for wearing crucifixes and refusing to take them off. The [...]

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XIVth Western European Orthodox Congress

May 21, 2012 Featured News

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER: Dear All Christ is risen ! Please let me remind you that the XIVth Western European Orthodox Congress will take place in Strasbourg (France) on May 25-28th. A lot of people have already registered, thank you to all! However there still remain places in hotels, so sign in unhesitatingly! All the [...]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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