Holy Land

Jerusalem’s dwindling Christians celebrate the Holy Fire on Orthodox Easter

May 6, 2013 Featured News

5/5/13 The annual rite at the 1500-year-old Church of the Holy Sepulcher attracted fewer local faithful as Christians across the region are caught up in various conflicts. This is the sixth in a series of posts about dwindling Christian communities in the Middle East. JERUSALEM — A procession of Armenian Orthodox Christians wound from their quarter [...]

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Prayers Needed for Saint Lazarus Monastery in Bethany/Al-Azaria, East Jerusalem

April 26, 2013 Featured News

Dan Koski 26/4/13 Fathers, Mothers, Brothers and Sisters of the Orthodox Church and other Christian traditions; As we approach Lazarus Saturday before the start of Holy Week in the Orthodox Church, I would ask that this year, you would also commemorate Saint Lazarus Monastery in the modern city of Al-Azaria (Lazarus) in Bethany, East Jerusalem, [...]

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Obama lights candles, prays at Bethlehem’s Church of Nativity compound

March 23, 2013 Featured News

22/3/13 JERUSALEM (CNS) — U.S. President Barack Obama, visiting the West Bank city of Bethlehem, stopped twice to light candles for his family and himself: first at the Church of Nativity grotto, where Christian tradition holds that Jesus was born, then at the adjacent Catholic Church of St. Catherine. On the last leg of his [...]

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Expectations of the new Armenian Patriarch in Jerusalem

February 13, 2013 News

13/2/13 In the second of two broadcasts, international lawyer and ecumenical consultant Dr Harry Hagopian, who is also an Ekklesia associate, talks about the newly elected Archbishop Nurhan Manoogian, 97th Armenian Patriarch of Jerusalem. Dr Hagopian proposes the necessity of a vision to combine the challenges of both geography and demography in order to maintain [...]

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A new Armenian Patriarch in Jerusalem: what does it mean?

January 25, 2013 Featured News

25/1/13 As many church leaders, organisations and individuals have learnt already, Archbishop Nourhan Manoogian was elected earlier today (24 January 2013) as the 97th patriarch of the Armenian Church in the Holy Land (Jordan, Israel and Palestine). The Grand Sacristan (or Lousararabed in Armenian) of the Church for many years, Archbishop Nourhan succeeds the late Torkom II [...]

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A time of decision for Jerusalemite Armenians

January 21, 2013 News

21/1/13 In a few days’ time, we will learn the name of the new Armenian patriarch of Jerusalem. Four or five names have been see-sawing in the consciousness of those following these developments for many long weeks already. But the haze of speculation will finally be removed with the elections and actual votes of the [...]

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Mayor of Jerusalem visits Russian Ecclesiastical Mission

January 20, 2013 News

On 14 January 2013, Mr. Nir Barkat, Mayor of Jerusalem, visited the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission. It was the first time that the Mayor of Jerusalem visited the representation of the Russian Orthodox Church among other places which he used to visit on the occasion of the feast of the Nativity of Christ. Archimandrite Isidor and [...]

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The Jordan River

January 5, 2013 Featured News

  Konstantinos Koutroubas -5/1/13 The Jordan River St. Matthew 3:13-17 At that time cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him.  But John forbad Him, saying, I have need to be baptized of Thee, and comest Thou to me?  And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: [...]

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Armenians Voice Fears Over Threat to Rights in Holy Land

January 3, 2013 Featured News

Jerusalem, Dec 30, 2012 – The Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem, a member of the triumvirate of Guardians of the Christian Holy Places, has voiced grave fears over the threat of the erosion of its historic and traditional rights in the Church of Nativity in Bethlehem. The rights and privileges that are the legacy of the [...]

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Armenians Voice Fears Over Threat to Rights in Holy Land

January 3, 2013 Featured News
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Jerusalem, Dec 30, 2012 – The Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem, a member of the triumvirate of Guardians of the Christian Holy Places, has voiced grave fears over the threat of the erosion of its historic and traditional rights in the Church of Nativity in Bethlehem. The rights and privileges that are the legacy of the [...]

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75,000 tourists set to arrive for Christmas

December 17, 2012 Featured News

17/12/2012 – Ynetnews Ministry of Tourism to offer free transportation for Christian pilgrims traveling between Jerusalem, Bethlehem. Tourism Minister Stas Misezhnikov will host the traditional pre-Christmas reception for leaders of the Christian communities and churches in Israelat Mishkenot Shaananim in Jerusalem on Monday. The minister will send season’s greetings for Christmas to the Christian communities, [...]

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Sergey Lavrov: We are concerned for the fate of Christians in the Middle East

November 30, 2012 Featured News

November 28, 2012, Russia’s Minister for Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov attended the meeting of the Imperial Orthodox Palestinian Society’s Board which took place at the Society’s headquarters in Moscow. Addressing the meeting, Lavrov underscored the similarity of stands taken by his ministry and the Russian Orthodox Church on the need to consolidate humanitarian relations between [...]

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Holy Land: Christian leaders support Palestine’s membership of UN

November 20, 2012 Featured News

20/1/2012 A hundred Christian community leaders in the Holy Land haved signed the following letter to European countries, calling for support for Palestine’s membership in the United Nations. Palestine, the Holy Land is our homeland. Our roots here stretch for centuries. We, Palestinian Christians are the descendents of the first Christians. We are also an [...]

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Patriarch Kirill points out importance of Russian Orthodox Church presence on Holy Land

November 15, 2012 News

Amman, November 14, Interfax – Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia believes the return of the Moscow Patriarchate to the Holy Land is a good process. “The return of Holy Rus to the Holy Land will have a positive effect and good consequences both for the spiritual life of our people and the life [...]

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Jerusalem Meets Russian Patriarch Kirill

November 10, 2012 Featured News

10/11/2012 JERUSALEM, November 10 (RIA Novosti) – The head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, who arrived in Jerusalem on Friday, was accompanied by a solemn procession of clerics and laypeople on his way from the Jaffa Gate to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre inside the Old City. [...]

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Russia church leader embarks on Holy Land visit

November 9, 2012 News

8/11/2012 MOSCOW (AFP)—Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill on Friday will make his first visit to the Holy Land since becoming head of the powerful church in 2009, in a trip which underlines his global influence as a religious leader. Kirill’s first official visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories will be held “under the sign of [...]

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Armenian Patriarch of Jerusalem Patriarch Laid to Rest

October 23, 2012 Featured News

23/10/2012 JERUSALEM—Patriarch of Jerusalem Archbishop Torkom Manoogian was laid to rest Monday as hundreds of cloaked clergymen marched through the narrow alleyways of the Old City of Jerusalem The Armenian Patriarch of Jerusalem Archbishop Torkom Manoogian passed away on October 12. He was 93. The 96th Patriarch of Jerusalem was interred at the Patriarchal Cemetery. [...]

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Patriarch of Jerusalem: We will Respond to the Occupation Crimes in the Holy Land with More Construction

October 12, 2012 Featured News

PNN 12/10/2012 On Thursday 11th October, Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem, Theophilos III, said that Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem Will respond to the Israeli attacks which have recently carried out on the holy sites by building new churches and repairing damages in the old ones. “Muslims and Christians exist in this land as its [...]

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Ground Blessing in Holy Land

September 28, 2012 News

26/9/2012 His Eminence Benjamin, Archbishop of San Francisco and the West, Locum Tenon of the Diocese of Alaska, blessed the church ground, along with special guest Metropolitan Kristov, church leader of Szech land and Slavokia to build a church named after Heiromartyr Saint Juvenaly of Kuingnerraq and His Companion. This is the first time land [...]

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Mount Tabor & The Transfiguration of Christ

August 5, 2012 Featured News

Konstantinos Koutroubas 4/8/2012 Since on Monday, August 6, we are celebrating the great feast of the Transfiguration of our Savior (Η Μεταμόρφωσις του Σωτήρος), I thought I’d share something regarding Mount Tabor in the Holy Land, the site of this great event. What happened with the Transfiguration is that Christ took three of His Apostles- [...]

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Syria: nuns help Christians & Muslims caught up in the war

July 23, 2012 News

22/7/2012 Refugees from the conflict come daily for help to the Shrine of Tabbaleh, dedicated to the Conversion of St Paul in Damascus. The Franciscan friars of the Custody of the Holy Land and the Franciscan Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, who run the Church, have welcomed eight families permanently and provide [...]

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Christians Help Israel’s Disabled Athletes in Israel

June 12, 2012 News

12/6/2012 Jesus spent a good deal of his earthly ministry comforting and healing the disabled, both as a sign of his power and calling and out of a deep compassion for those whose handicaps had kept them from fully enjoying life. It is, therefore, proper that Christians who love and support Israel should likewise pay [...]

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Celebrating the Feast of Ascension in Jerusalem

May 18, 2012 Featured News

18/5/2012 Visit Travelujah-Holy Land Tours for attractive packages For Christians around the world, today marks the Feast of the Ascension, known as the Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord, is a great feast that marks the bodily Ascension of Jesus Christ into heaven. “[...] Jesus began to do and to teach until the …

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Roman Catholic Church in Holy Land plans switch to Orthodox calendar for Easter

April 5, 2012 News

4/4/2012 The Catholic churches of the Holy Land plan to observe Easter according to the Orthodox calendar, the head of the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land has announced. The change could come as early as next year. Father Pierbattista Pizzabella explained that the change was prompted by a desire to strengthen ecumenical ties between [...]

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Orthodox Easter Schedules and Timings in Holy Land – 2012

March 21, 2012 Featured News

21/3/2012 For additional information on group Holy Land tour reservations and pilgrimages please contact Travelujah here: Roman Catholic and Anglican Easter Schedules here: Easter 2012 in the Holy Land will be quite special this year as once again Easter and Passover will coincide. Erev Passover begins at sundown on Good Friday (April 6) and continues [...]

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