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Georgia church declares ID cards ‘Satan-free’

July 6, 2012 Featured News

AFP 6/7/2012 TBILISI – Georgia’s powerful Orthodox Church has assured believers that the ex-Soviet state’s new electronic identity cards do not carry the mark of Satan after being petitioned by worried worshippers. “The Holy Synod states that from the point of view of theological and ecclesiastical teachings, ID cards as they exist today do not [...]

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Syria: Christians Caught Between Two Fires, See Iran’s Hand

February 10, 2012 News

10/2/2012 MISNA “Of course Syrian Christians are afraid. They have much to lose and they know it, Even if this absurd conflict that pits brothers against each other, Christians have nothing to do with it and they will be the ones, as a minority, who may have to pay the highest price of this absurd [...]

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Dannebohm Appointed to Decani Monastery Relief Fund Board of Directors

August 11, 2011 News

Boise, Idaho (PRWEB) 11/8/2011 The Very Reverend Archimandrite Nektarios Serfes announced today that J. Basil Dannebohm, a student of Orthodox Christian Theology and business professional residing in Denver, Colorado has been appointed as Executive Assistant to the President of the Board of Directors for the Decani Monastery Relief Fund. Based in Boise, Idaho, the Decani [...]

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Greek Christians battle over new ID cards

March 29, 2011 Featured News

28/3/2011 Thousands of Orthodox citizens of Greece hit the streets of Athens on Sunday to protest against the introduction of new identity cards. They perceive the plastic cards with microchip as the fulfilling prophecy of the Apocalypse. The trouble revolves around the proposal to strip all references to religion from new National ID card. The [...]

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Greek protesters decry ‘mark of the beast’ ID Cards

February 7, 2011 News

The Associated Press 6/2/2011 ATHENS — More than 2,000 Orthodox Christian fundamentalists have gathered at Syntagma Square in central Athens to protest at a government plan to issue new electronic ID cards that would include biometric data. The protesters charge that the state aims at tighter control over its citizens and many believe that the [...]

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Egypt Church issues first Conversion Certificate

April 14, 2009 News

CAIRO (AFP) – Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox Church has for the first time issued a certificate of conversion to a Muslim-born Christian, his lawyer said, in a country where religious conversion is highly sensitive.Maher al-Gohari, who is seeking to change his religion on his official documents from Muslim to Christian was asked by a court to [...]

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