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Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court rules in favor of Greek Orthodox church in dispute with city of Springfield over fire detection system

by OCP May 5, 2012 News
St. George Greek Orthodox Cathedral, 22 St. George Road, is seen in Springfield's North End.

By Dan Ring, The Republican 4/5/2012 BOSTON — The state’s highest court today ruled in favor of St. George Greek Orthodox Cathedral of Western Massachusetts in a legal dispute with the city of Springfield over a fire detection system. In a decision written by Judge Barbara A. Lenk, the state Supreme Judicial Court upheld a [...]

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Rebuilding Of St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church Moves Forward

by OCP April 27, 2012 News
The old St. Nicholas Church – New York, NY (file / credit: Grisha Ressatar)

26/4/2012 NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – On September 11, 2001, the Twin Towers weren’t the only structures destroyed. The St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church was also erased from Manhattan when the World Trade Center collapsed on it. Now, the effort to rebuild it is moving ahead, WCBS 880′s John Metaxas reports. “We have a plan and [...]

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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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Pilgrimage Rights of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate

by OCP April 17, 2012 News

By Areti Kotseli 16/4/2012 The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, known as the Church of the Resurrection, has been an important pilgrimage destination since the 4th century. There are three major rights of the Greek-Orthodox Patriarchate over the pilgrimage area. The first one is the key of the inside gate of the Church [...]

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Archbishop denounces Israeli restrictions on freedom of religion in Jerusalem

by OCP April 14, 2012 Featured News
Greek Orthodox Archbishop of Sebastia, Atallah Hanna, has denounced Israeli actions in occupied Jerusalem.

14/4/2012 The Greek Orthodox Archbishop of Sebastia, Atallah Hanna, has denounced Israeli actions in occupied Jerusalem imposed due to Jewish holidays. In a press statement released on Thursday, Archbishop Hanna said, “During these days in which we live a week of pain in preparation for Easter, we have witnessed the Israeli authorities restricting the movement [...]

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Istanbul: Historic Greek Orphanage to Become Environmental Center Under Patriarch Bartholomew I

by OCP April 10, 2012 Featured News

By Areti Kotseli 10/4/2012 The Büyükada Greek Orphanage of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate is set to become an international environmental foundation, according to a recent article of the Turkish newspaper todayszaman.com. A ruling by the European Court of Human Rights in June 2010 stated that the Turkish government should re-register the historic Orthodox orphanage on [...]

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Turkey returns historic graveyards to non-Muslim communities

by OCP April 10, 2012 News

10/4/2012 Six historic graveyards were returned to İstanbul’s Jewish, Greek and Armenian communities. Six historic graveyards were returned to İstanbul’s Jewish, Greek and Armenian communities on Thursday, following a decision by a government board that regulates the practices of the country’s non-Muslim communities. The decision of the Directorate General for Foundations (VGM) to restore the [...]

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Syria’s Christians caught in the middle

by OCP April 8, 2012 Featured News

7/4/2012 As the year-long conflict polarises Syrian society, Omar Abdel-Razek from BBC Arabic finds an Orthodox Christian community worried it could face trouble from both the government and opposition. “The university has become a battlefield between the supporters and the opposition of the regime.” That was what Lena (not her real name), a medical student [...]

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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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Reopening of Greek Orthodox Seminary back on agenda

by OCP March 30, 2012 Featured News
Halki Orthodox Seminary

27/3/2012 TODAY’S ZAMAN, ANKARA Turkey has decided to reopen a former Greek Orthodox seminary on an island off the coast of İstanbul, according to a statement made by US President Barack Obama. The EU and the US have frequently criticized Turkey for not reopening the Halki Greek Orthodox seminary — which experts say is related [...]

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Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia Calls For Expansion of Cemetery in Matraville

by OCP March 30, 2012 News

By Stella Tsolakidou 29/3/2012 The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia is calling all Greek-Australians to join the action taken for preserving and, in the future, expanding the burial space of Botany Cemetery at Eastern Suburbs Memorial Park at Matraville. With space quickly diminishing in cemeteries across Australia, the Botany Cemetery serves some 1.4 million citizens [...]

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Christos Anesti! Alithos Anesti!

by OCP March 30, 2012 News
Members of the Holy Cross-Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Cathedral gather in Harpersville at Camp Vakakes for their Pascha, or Easter, service. (Contributed)

By NICOLE LOGGINS / Staff Writer 30/3/2012 HARPERSVILLE — “Christos Anesti” or “Christ is risen” is a traditional greeting among Greek Orthodox Christians during their Pascha, or Easter service. “One person says ‘Christos Anesti!’ or ‘Christ is risen!’ and the person with the other egg responds with ‘Alithos Anesti!’ or ‘Truly he is risen!,’” said [...]

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The Oldest Church in the City of Beirut

by OCP March 19, 2012 News

18/3/2012 The Greek Orthodox Cathedral of Saint George holds a special place in the hearts of many Lebanese because of its unique location overlooking Parliament Square right in the heart of Beirut’s city center. The Cathedral of Saint George is the Mother Cathedral of Beirut’s Greek Orthodox community. It’s the “Thronos”, the throne of the [...]

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How a Funeral Home is Healing the Painful History of Turkish Christians

by OCP March 10, 2012 Featured News
An Orthodox woman prays during Christmas Liturgy at Fener Greek Orthodox Patriarchate in Istanbul / Reuters

10/3/2012 An Orthodox cemetery in Istanbul is trying to negotiate Turkey’s complicated Muslim-Christian relationship. More than 40 years ago, Kirkor Çapan, an ethnic Armenian, and his father set up what today is one of the last Christian funeral homes still operating in Istanbul. But the funeral parlor is not a religious island unto itself. With [...]

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Turkey: Istanbul Funeral Home Fosters Muslim-Christian Understanding

by OCP March 10, 2012 News

9/3/2012 More than 40 years ago, Kirkor Çapan, an ethnic Armenian, and his father set up what today is one of the last Christian funeral homes still operating in Istanbul. But the funeral parlor is not a religious island unto itself. With so few Christians left in Turkey, the stonemasons and carpenters working with Çapan [...]

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The Russian Grand Duke’s long-ago gift to local Greek Orthodox congregation on display this weekend

by OCP March 10, 2012 News
The 'blessing cross' dates from 1849 and was hand-tooled in Moscow.

By Bruce Nolan, The Times-Picayune 9/3/2012 For the first time in years, the city’s one Greek Orthodox congregation on Saturday will display a sampling of its old Bibles, antique icons and other treasures — including a silver cross that seems have been a gift from Russian Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich, whose 1872 visit to New [...]

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Turkish government ‘firm’ on solving woes of minorities

by OCP March 4, 2012 Featured News
Arınç said that the Foundations Council, the highest authority on religious foundations, now includes a non-Muslim member representing minority faiths for the first time.

ANKARA – Anatolia News Agency 4/3/2012 Turkey has taken several steps to ensure the rights of the country’s non-Muslim religious minorities after decades of official neglect and mistrust, Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arınç has said, adding that the government was determined to solve minorities’ problems. [Our goal is] to guarantee that the rule of [...]

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Syria’s Greek patriarch opposes foreign intervention

by OCP March 3, 2012 Featured News

3/3/2012 The leader of Greek Orthodox Christians in Syria opposes any foreign intervention in the country, saying it would be harmful to both Christians and Muslims, a newspaper reported on Thursday. Ignatius IV Hazim, patriarch of Antioch and All the East, said “the harmful effects of any foreign intervention in our affairs would touch Christians [...]

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Turkish, Greek Cypriots agree to renovate monastery in Karpaz

by OCP February 23, 2012 Featured News

23/2/2012 Turkish and Greek Cypriots have agreed to launch a joint renovation project for a Greek Orthodox monastery in Cyprus, a senior Turkish Cypriot official said Wednesday. Turkish and Greek Cypriots have agreed to launch a joint renovation project for a Greek Orthodox monastery in Cyprus, a senior Turkish Cypriot official said Wednesday. “We have [...]

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Ecumenical Patriarch makes history in Turkish Parliament

by OCP February 22, 2012 Featured News
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, (L) spiritual leader of the Eastern Orthodox Communion arrive to speak to the members of a parliamentary subcommittee seeking an all party consensus for a new constitution in Ankara, on February 20, 2012.

22/2/2012 Göksel Bozkurtgöksel.bozkurt@hurriyet.com.tr ANKARA – Hürriyet Daily News Greek Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew and Syriac Mor Gabriel Monastery Foundation head Kuryakos Ergün speak at Turkish Parliament, demanding equal treatment and rights for Turkey’s non-muslim communities. Greek Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew made a landmark presentation at Parliament’s constitution-making commission yesterday, demanding equal treatment for non-Muslim minorities, including an [...]

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Turkey reaches out to its minorities in another step for writing new constitution

by OCP February 22, 2012 Featured News
Orthodox worshippers, seen here at a mass at St George Cathedral in Istanbul, do not want to be 'second-class citizens', says their leader. MURAD SEZER / REUTERS

22/2/2012 ISTANBUL // Leaders of Turkey’s small Christian community have hailed as historic a meeting with Turkish lawmakers to discuss the country’s new constitution, but the visit also highlighted the challenge of securing rights of minorities in this mostly Muslim nation. “A new Turkey is being born,” said Bartholomew I, the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople [...]

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Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew to Address Turkish Parliament

by OCP February 16, 2012 Featured News

Stella Tsolakidou 15/2/2012 Greek Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew will address the Turkish Parliament on February 20, presenting the problems of Turkey’s minorities for the first time since the creation of the Turkish Republic. The Greek Orthodox Patriarch will discuss the minorities’ views on the new Turkish constitution, while he will also refer to matters such [...]

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Greek Orthodox Church Paid 12.6 Million Euros in Taxes in 2011

by OCP February 16, 2012 News

By Natalie Weeks 16/2/2012 Feb. 16 (Bloomberg) — The Orthodox Church of Greece paid 12.6 million euros ($16.4 million) in taxes to the state last year, the Holy Synod of Bishops said in a statement on its website today. The church is taxed like all non-profit organizations in Greece, according to a separate statement posted [...]

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Greek Orthodox Church Closes Radio Station Amid Economic Crisis

by OCP February 9, 2012 News

By Paul Tugwell 9/2/2012 Greece’s Orthodox Church halted broadcasts over its radio station after 22 years because of its inability to cover losses amid the country’s economic crisis. “The Church of Greece has decided to immediately suspend the station’s radio signal given inflexible and tight economic circumstances,” the Athens-based Holy Synod of Bishops said in [...]

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Priest in probe over Facebook claims

by OCP January 29, 2012 News
Reverend Prokopios Kanavas's background is under scrutiny. Picture: Bianca De Marchi

Nigel Hunt /Sunday Mail (SA) 29/1/2012 A GREEK priest will be asked to produce evidence to substantiate claims he has made on his Facebook page. Reverend Prokopios Kanavas has been called to a meeting of Greek Orthodox Community of South Australia council leaders on Tuesday to discuss the revelations, which could lead to his sacking. [...]

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