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PASCHAL GREETING TO H.B. NOURHAN MANOUGIAN, ARMENIAN PATRIARCH OF JERUSALEM

May 17, 2013 News

Holy City of Jerusalem, 8 May 2013   Your Beatitude, Your Eminences, Reverend Fathers, Dear Members of the Brotherhood of Saint James,   “It is the day of the Resurrection. Let us shine brightly for the festival, and also embrace one another-And thus let us cry aloud, Christ  is risen from the dead; by death [...]

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ADDRESS OF WELCOME TO THE HEADS OF CHURCHES ON THE OCCASION OF THEIR PASCHAL VISIT

May 17, 2013 News

Holy City of Jerusalem, 7 May 2013 Your Beatitudes, Your Eminences, Your Graces, Dear Fathers, Beloved Members of our Respective Brotherhoods, Christ is risen! He is risen indeed? Al-Masiach qam! Hakken qam! We welcome you today with the Paschal greeting that echoes down the ages and is the great affirmation of the victory of God [...]

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Nikolic Met With Patriarch Theophilus III

May 3, 2013 Featured News

Maja Radojcic | E-Mail: maja@inserbia.info  3/5/13 Theophilus III welcomed the Serbian president, as he put it, both as a political leader and as a pilgrim, adding that he knows that Kosovo is “Serbia’s Jerusalem” and that he is aware of the suffering the Serbian people are going through. “I want to thank you for everything you are [...]

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Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilus III To Visit Ukraine On April 23-24

April 20, 2013 Featured News

20/4/13 Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilus III intends to visit Ukraine to take part in an international conference “Kyiv inter-confessional forum” on April 23-24. Ukrainian News learned this from a statement by the press service of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchate. Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilus III expressed his desire to visit Ukraine in a [...]

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Egypt’s coptic church commemorates late Pope Shenouda

March 16, 2013 Featured News

Ahram Online – 9/3/13 Egypt’s church remembers late Pope Shenouda with three days celebration.Pope Tawadros II announced on Saturday that three days of celebrations will be held to commemorate the first anniversary of the late Pope Shenouda III, beginning on Friday. Pope Shenouda III, who was the head of the Coptic Orthodox church for 40 [...]

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Patriarch John X of Antioch’s enthronement celebrations in Beirut

February 22, 2013 News

February 17, 2013 – the Russian Orthodox Church’s delegation led by Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations, took part in the celebrations on the occasion of the enthronement of His Beatitude John X, Patriarch of the Great Antioch of All the East. The celebrations began with the [...]

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Eighty First Dukhrono of St. Ignatius Elias III concluded at Manjinikkara Monastery

February 13, 2013 Featured News

Syriac Orthodox Church in India 13/2/13 Kerala: The Monastert officials gave a warm traditional reception to the pilgrims arrived from all over Kerala under the leadership of H.E. Kuriakose Mor Severios and H.E. Geevarghese Mor Coorilose at Omallur Cross Junction and lead them to the Holy tomb of St.Ignatios Elias III. His Beatitude the Catholicos [...]

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H.B. ADDRESS TO THE PRESIDENT OF ISRAEL & MEMBERS OF THE GOVERMENT IN THE OCCASION OF THE NEW YEAR

January 4, 2013 Featured News

Mr President, Honourable Ministers, Members of Parliament, Your Eminences, Dear Reverend Fathers, Distinguished Guests, “If any of you are qualified to be enrolled in our bodyguard, let them be enrolled, and let there be peace among us, (1 Mac. 13:40) At the turn of the year, we greet you warmly in this season of renewal [...]

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Historical Coincidences of the Names of the Popes of Alexandria

December 31, 2012 Featured News
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    Varghese John Thottapuzha – OCP Associate 31/12/12 It is interesting to note that the present Popes of the Coptic Orthodox Church and Greek Orthodox Church of Alexandria share the same names. In fact, this aspect was highlighted in a fraternal way in the congratulatory note of the latter to the former at the [...]

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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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Egypt’s Coptic church chooses new pope

November 4, 2012 Featured News

  4/11/2012 CAIRO—Egypt’s ancient Coptic Christian church chose a new pope in an elaborate Sunday ceremony meant to invoke the will of God, in which a blindfolded boy drew the name of the next patriarch from a crystal chalice. Bishop Tawadros, 59, an aide to the acting pope, was selected to become Pope Tawadros II, [...]

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Church of Holy Sepulchre bank account frozen over £1.5m water bill

November 3, 2012 Featured News

Harriet Sherwood in Jerusalem 3/11/2012 Standoff over unpaid water bill could result in closure of revered church believed to be site of Jesus’s crucifixion and burial. One of the most venerated sites in the Christian faith, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, where Jesus is believed to have been crucified, buried and resurrected, is facing a [...]

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Street named after Coptic Pope Shenouda III in Jersey City

October 24, 2012 Featured News

Charles Hack/The Jersey Journal 22/10/2012 Hundreds of Coptic Christians crowded the intersection of Bergen Avenue and Vroom Street in Jersey City yesterday afternoon, to witness the unveiling of a street sign in honor of Pope Shenouda III. Among those attending the ceremony to rename the intersection Pope Shenouda III Way were U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez, [...]

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Pope Shenouda exhibition opens in Cairo

August 16, 2012 Featured News

Nevine El-Aref 16/8/2012 Abbaseya Cathedral hosts exhibition charting life of Coptic Christian Pope Shenouda III, who died in March 2012. Christians have long flocked to Cairo’s awe-inspiring Abbaseya Cathedral to pray and attend religious services. They will now be joined by Muslims wanting to see the personal belongings of Pope Shenouda III, the 117th Coptic [...]

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Coptic Orthodox Church reveals 17 candidates for Papal Seat

August 12, 2012 Featured News

Ahram Online 12/8/2012 The Church has unveiled its longlist of bishops and monks competing to succeed Pope Shenouda III later this year The acting head of Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox Church has released details of the 17 candidates in the running to become the next pope, according to a report on Ahram’s Arabic-language news website. Bishop [...]

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H.B. THEOPHILOS III PATRIARCH OF JERUSALEM VISITED AL-ZAITARI REFUGEE CAMP IN JORDAN

August 12, 2012 Featured News

On Monday, August 6, 2012, His Beatitude Patriarch Theophilos III, Greek Orthodox Patriarch of the Holy City of Jerusalem and all of Palestine and Jordan, and President of the Middle East Council of Churches for the Orthodox Family, expressed his concern for and acted out of what he called a ”moral duty” by making a [...]

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Coptic Orthodox Church to point the way to new Pope

July 23, 2012 News

Basil El-Dabh 21/7/2012 The Coptic Church has also announced that it will not attend the traditional yearly Ramadan Iftaar banquet in mourning for the death of Pope Shenouda III. The commission overseeing the election of the new Patriarch of the Coptic Church will disclose the list of voters who will participate in the election of [...]

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GRANTING OF THE NATIONAL DECORATION OF THE ORDER OF “MANUEL AMADOR GUERRERO” IN THE TRADE OF GREAT CROSS TO H.B. THEOPHILOS III PATRIARCH OF JERUSALEM

July 19, 2012 Featured News

Holy City of Jerusalem, 27 of June 2012 Granting of the National Decoration of the Order of “Manuel Amador Guerrero” in the grade of “Great Cross” to His Most Godly Beatitude, the Patriarch of the Holy City of Jerusalem and all Palestine, Syria, Arabia, beyond the Jordan River, Cana of Galilee, and Holy Zion, THEOPHILUS [...]

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H.B. THEOPHILOS III PATRIARCH OF JERUSALEM IS DECORATED BY THE REPUBLIC OF PANAMA

July 19, 2012 News

Holy City of Jerusalem, 27 of June 2012. [UNOFFICIAL TRANSLATION] DECREE NUMBER 194 of 1 June 2012 by which is granted the National Decoration of the Order of “MANUEL AMADOR GUERRERO”, created by Law 22 of 29 October 1953. THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC using his legal powers, CONSIDERING: FIRST: His Most Godly Beatitude, the [...]

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Metropolitan Volodymyr met with Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem

May 1, 2012 News

Ukrainian Orthodox Church On April 25 the Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church Metropolitan Volodymyr met with Patriarch Theophilos III of the Holy City of Jerusalemand All Palestine. The meeting was also attended by Metropolitan Volodymyr of Pochaiv, Chairman of the DECR of the UOC Archbishop Anthony of Boryspil, Secretary for the Primate of the [...]

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14 candidates run for the Coptic Christian Papal Seat

May 1, 2012 Featured News
Interim Coptic pope Bishop Bakhomious at church press conference on presidential elections (Photo: Bassam El-Zoghby)

1/5/2012 A Coptic legal advisor announces that 14 bishops and priests from Egypt and abroad have nominated themselves for the papal chair, and that there may be a change in the lot system that makes the ultimate decision. Maged Riyad, legal consultant to the Coptic Orthodox Church in the United States, announced in a press [...]

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3 candidates favoured for Coptic papal position: MENA

April 29, 2012 Featured News
Egyptian Bishops in front of Pope Shenouda III's coffin in his funeral "Photo:Reuters"

MENA 27/4/2012 The Egyptian Orthodox Church of Alexandria began receiving endorsements for the vacant position of pope on Friday from Bishops and the general congregation council. Judge Edward Ghaleb, a member of the Church’s general congregation council and candidacy committee told MENA that the committee was examining the endorsements in order to prepare a primary [...]

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Egypt Christians hold Liturgy in memory of late Pope Shenouda III

April 27, 2012 Featured News

Ahram Online 25/4/2012 Ritual marking 40 days since death of popular pope to be held at Cairo’s Abbasiya Cathedral and St Bishoy Monastery. Liturgy to mark 40 days since the death of Pope Shenouda III will take place Wednesday at Cairo’s Abbassiya Cathedral and the St Bishoy Monastery in Wadi El-Natroun where the pope is [...]

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MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR HIS HOLINESS POPE SHENOUDA III

March 30, 2012 News

27/3/2012 Archdiocese of the Eastern United States – Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch and All East A memorial service for His Holiness Pope Shenouda III, hosted by the Coptic Orthodox Archdiocese of North America was held at St. Mary’s Coptic Orthodox Church in East Brunswick, New Jersey on Sunday, March 25, 2012. Numerous clergy from [...]

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Message of condolences of the Patriarch of Romania at the passing away of Pope Shenouda III, Patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church

March 23, 2012 News

Message of condolences of His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel at the passing away of Pope Shenouda III, Patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church: To His Eminence Metropolitan BISHOY, General Secretary of the Holy Synod, Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate Your Eminence, It is with deep Christian sorrow that we have learned of the passing away from this world, [...]

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