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Annual From Easter to Ascension concert series graces Georgia

by OCP April 22, 2012 News

By Salome Modebadze 20/4/2012 The 7th International Festival From Easter to Ascension opened with an instrumental duets evening on April 18. Pianist George Vachnadze made the audience feel the beauty of music at Tbilisi State Conservatory alongside his cellist friend Suren Bagratuni. The festival founded by the International Charity Foundation of the Catholicos-Patriarch of All [...]

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Georgia-Israel Relations Continue Stumbling With Monastery Flap – Analysis

by OCP April 19, 2012 Featured News
The Monastery of the Cross, Jerusalem.

By Brittany Pheiffer 19/4/2012 A controversy over a historically Georgian monastery in Jerusalem is further complicating already-strained ties between Tel Aviv and Tbilisi. Despite mutual reputations as bastions of liberalism in charged geopolitical zones, Georgia’s relationship with Israel has been rocky for years. Georgia’s previously positive relationship with Israel became tense after intelligence indicated that [...]

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Ancient monastery attacked by Israeli extremists

by OCP April 5, 2012 Featured News

By Lauren Gelfond Feldinger 4/4/2012 Continuing vandalism at religious sites prompts condemnation from religious communities and politicians. A medieval Greek Orthodox monastery in Jerusalem, one of the latest holy sites to be targeted in the region in an epidemic of vandalism, is at the centre of a diplomatic dispute between Greece and Georgia. In February, [...]

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Houses of the Holy

by OCP March 23, 2012 Featured News
The cupola of the medieval Georgian Orthodox monastery of Oskhi in northeastern Turkey

Eka Chitanava 21/3/2012 A diplomatic deal to restore crumbling Georgian monasteries in Turkey faces stiff Orthodox opposition. TBILISI | The cupola of Oshki monastery dates to the 10th century, and it’s falling apart. Medieval frescoes are peeling off the building’s moss-covered interior walls. In recent years two stone columns covered with bas-reliefs have been plundered. [...]

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Russians and Georgians brethren in religion – Georgian Patriarch

by OCP March 14, 2012 Featured News

14/3/2012 Georgian church leader congratulates Putin on election win. In a message to Russian President-elect Vladimir Putin, Patriarch of the Georgian Orthodox Church, Ilia II, congratulated him with election victory and told him that Georgia would never tolerate “tearing away” Abkhazia and South Ossetia. “I think that your huge experience will contribute to strengthening of [...]

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Georgia’s Patriarch congratulates Vladimir Putin on his election as President

by OCP March 14, 2012 News

N.Kirtzkhalia 13/3/2012 Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia Ilia II has congratulated Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on his victory in the presidential election. The Patriarchate of Georgia told Trend that Ilia II sent a congratulatory message to Putin. “Please accept my congratulations on your election as president. I think that your vast experience will contribute to peace [...]

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Georgian Monk Calls Opposition ‘Devils’

by OCP March 14, 2012 News

14/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 14 (RIA Novosti) An abbot of an Orthodox Christian monastery in Georgia earned a reprimand from church hierarchs for calling the political opposition “devils” and banning them from service. “I need no devils at my service. He who does not love the president is the devil,” Archimandrite Shio Gabrichidze, abbot of a [...]

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Greek Patriarch denies negotiations over monastery

by OCP March 10, 2012 Featured News
His Beatitude Theophilos III - Patriarch of Jerusalem

DFWATCH STAFF 10/3/2012 TBILISI, DFWatch – Theophilos III, the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem, is unfamiliar with there being negotiations regarding returning church control over the Monastery of the Cross to Georgia. The Patriarch said this in an exclusive interview with the online portal Izrus.co.il. The site where the monastery was built in the 11th [...]

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Repairs for Saint Nshan: Georgia to restore Armenian Church

by OCP March 8, 2012 News

7/3/2012 The National Agency for Protection of Cultural Heritage of Georgia announced Tuesday that it has begun restoration of Saint Nshan church, an Armenian house of worship that was seriously damaged in two fires during January. Restoration is expected to take three months. In mid-January, a group of experts from the Ministry of Culture of [...]

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Armenia’s Supreme Spiritual Council holds meeting in extended format

by OCP March 3, 2012 News

3/3/2012 Armenia’s Supreme Spiritual Council meeting in extended format took place at the Holy See in St. Etchmiadzin led by all Armenian Catholicos Karekin II. The Supreme Spiritual Council heard Georgia’s Armenian Diocese leader Bishop Mirzakhanyan who presented the Armenian sanctuaries’ condition in Georgia. The council also touched upon the anti-Armenian report representing the Hojalu [...]

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Georgia demands return of Monastery of the Cross from Jerusalem

by OCP February 27, 2012 News

27/2/2012 Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili wants Israel to return control over the Monastery of the Cross in Jerusalem, News.ru reports. The monastery was built by a son of Georgian King Bagrat IV in the 11th century. It was named after part of the cross used for the crucifixion of Christ, which was stored at the [...]

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His Holiness and Beatitude Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia Ilia the Second Visits Israel

by OCP February 23, 2012 News

22/2/2012 His Holiness and Beatitude Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia Ilia the Second departed for Israel on February 16. During his visit in Israel His Holiness will meet the Patriarch of Jerusalem Orthodox Church, Theopile II and visit Holy Christian sites. While in Israeli, the Patriarch will have a meeting with President of the State of [...]

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Ecumenical Patriarchate recognized Abkhazia canonical territory of Georgian Apostolic Orthodox Church

by OCP February 16, 2012 Featured News

15/02/2012 Ecumenical Patriarchate and Constantinople Patriarch Bartholomew support the territorial integrity of Georgia and recognize Abkhazia as canonical territory of the Georgian Apostolic Orthodox Church. Journalists were told about this in the Patriarchate of Georgia after the visit of the delegation of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Tbilisi. This position was voiced by the delegation at [...]

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Building mosques to restore churches

by OCP February 13, 2012 Featured News

13/2/2012 Georgian church On February 9, the Georgian Patriarchate released a statement condemning a recent agreement between the Georgian and Turkish governments, on the restoration of religious sites on one another’s sovereign territory. The Georgian government has consented to build a new mosque in Batumi, in exchange for restoration work to be conducted on the [...]

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Interior Ministry Says It Helped Secure Release of Georgian Monk from Captivity in Abkhazia

by OCP February 12, 2012 News

Civil Georgia 12/2/2012 The Georgian Interior Ministry said in a brief statement on February 11 without providing further details, that a Georgian priest-monk was released “after 25 days of captivity on the occupied territory of Abkhazia as a result of efforts” undertaken by the Ministry. Last month the Georgian media sources reported, that priest-monk Iona, [...]

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Historic documents tell it all

by OCP February 7, 2012 Featured News

07/02/2012 Disturbing news is coming from Abkhazia. With instigation of the Moscow Patriarchate and through blindness of the separatist authorities of Abkhazia vandals of the XXI century are purposely destroying all Georgian trace on monuments of cultural heritage. As a result of so-called restoration works in the Ilori St. George Church of the XI century [...]

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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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Commentary: Georgia’s Chokehold on Armenia Reaches Critical Level

by OCP 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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Tbilisi municipality launches restoration of Armenian Church

by OCP January 24, 2012 News

23/1/2012 TBILISI. – Municipality of Tbilisi started restoration works of the Armenian Church St. Nshan in the ancient part of the capital. “Currently the territory is being cleaned up from rubbish. Afterwards, the restoration will start,” municipality informs, Georgia Online reports. As Armenian News-NEWS.am informed earlier, the agreement to restore the Armenian Church was reached [...]

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Handing over of Armenian churches must be based on principles of equality – Georgian patriarch

by OCP January 23, 2012 News

23/1/2012 The Georgian Orthodox Church passed a statement after the fire at the Church of St. Nikolai (Surb Nshan) on Serebryanaya Str. in Tbilisi. The Georgian patriarch says that the church needs enforcement. A joint commission should be organized for archeological studies. Georgian and Armenian officials must take part in the process to give impartial [...]

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565 more babies became Patriarch’s godchildren

by OCP January 21, 2012 News

20/1/2012 565 more babies became the Patriarch’s godchildren. The 21st baptism was held at the Trinity Cathedral yesterday. The Patriarch arrived at the cathedral for the baptism and blessed his godchildren. He also delivered a sermon. Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia Ilia II is already the godfather of 10,400 children. The Patriarch has been baptizing each [...]

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Armenian church in Tbilisi to be restored

by OCP January 21, 2012 News

19/1/2012 Armenia and Georgia have reached an agreement on restoration of the Armenian Church of Surb Nshan in Tbilisi, News Armenia reports. A group of Armenian experts from the Culture Ministry, supervised by the head of the Agency for Preservation of Historic and Cultural Monuments, Serzhik Arakelyan, visited Tbilisi on January 11-13 to investigate the [...]

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Friday the 13th

by OCP January 17, 2012 Featured News

16/01/2012 Irakli Tskitishvili Club of Experts In recent times the month of January has become quite scandalous for Abkhazia. This was the case last year, when Sukhumi was visited by head of the Accounting Chamber of Russia Sergey Stepashin and which was followed by a serious confrontation between local authorities and the opposition. And it [...]

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Armenian-Georgian relations continued to develop actively in 2011 – Armenain MFA

by OCP January 17, 2012 News

16/1/2012 YEREVAN. – Armenian-Georgian relations continued to develop actively in 2011. Bilateral visits on various levels were significantly activated, as well as an active political dialogue was run, Armenian MFA’s report on 2011 reads. Georgian President Mikhail Saakhashvili visited Armenia on Jan. 22-23, last year. Heads of the two states discussed issues on relaxing crossing [...]

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Catholicos Patriarch of all Georgia to visit Germany for medical examination

by OCP January 17, 2012 News

17/1/2012 Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia Ilia II will leave for Germany for medical examination at the end of this week. As Patriarchate told Trend, he will stay in Germany for 10 days and will undergo rehabilitation in one of the clinics. Two years ago, Ilia II underwent surgery on his heart, and therefore doctors recommended [...]

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