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Islamists Warn Christians From Demonstrating to Topple Egyptian President

June 17, 2013 Featured News

15/6/13 Mary Abdelmassih Assyrian International News Agency (AINA) — The youth-led Tamarod (rebel) Initiative has collected more than their targeted 15,000,000 signatures calling for a no-confidence vote against President Mohammed Morsi and forcing early elections in Egypt, causing the ruling Muslim Brotherhood party and its Islamists partners to feel seriously threatened, say political observers. Millions [...]

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Basilica – News Agency – 5 Years of Activity

June 17, 2013 News

Sunday, 16 June 2013, Basilica News Agency of the Romanian Patriarchate celebrates five years of activity. The agency is part of the Basilica Press Centre – Department for Communications and Public Relations of the Patriarchal Administration – and it is the only member of the Press Centre of its name, Basilica. This media institution was [...]

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Small Island

June 15, 2013 Featured News

Helena Drysdale – 15/6/13 As anti-Islamist violence erupted across Turkey, another threat to the ambitions of Recep Tayyip Erdogan was the rising tension between Christians and majority Muslims. The problem stands out on Halki, home to a venerated and endangered Orthodox seminary. “You can’t come in,” snaps the moustachioed guard in front of the gates. [...]

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Eritrea: Christians Continue to Face Persecution

June 13, 2013 Featured News

Joseph DeCaro, Worthy News Correspondent – 13/6/13 ASMARA, ERITREA (Worthy News)– Religious persecution in Eritrea is at its highest ever and getting even worse, according to World Watch Monitor, the news outlet of Open Doors, a Christian charity that ranked Eritrea 10th on its World Watch List. This year alone, 191 Christians have already been [...]

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Ankara has reacted angrily to the Vatican for Pope’s remarks on the Genocide of Armenians

June 8, 2013 Featured News

  08/06/2013 Turkey has reacted angrily to the Vatican following a statement from Pope Francis describing the mass killings of Armenians during World War I as “the first genocide of the twentieth century” during a meeting with a delegation led by Patriarch of Cilicia of Armenian Catholics on June 3, according to the Hyuriet Daily News. “The [...]

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Construction of First Ever Orthodox Church in Pakistan on Progress alongside Mission work – Exclusive

June 7, 2013 Featured News

Greek Orthodox Church in Pakistan – Ecumenical Patriarchate 6/6/13 Fr John Tanveer Pakistan: The constriction of the first ever Orthodox Church in Pakistan is under progress. Larges scale mission and charity works are being done alongside under the leadership of Fr Jon Tanveer,the first ordained Orthodox priest of Pakistan. Source: OCP News Service

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Where is President Obama as Egypt’s Coptic Christians Die and Churches Burn?

May 24, 2013 News

Michael Terheyden 5/24/2013 Catholic Online (www.catholic.org) Last week, hundreds of Coptic Christians in Egypt stood up to a mob of 20 thousand Muslims. They risked their lives to protect their church, their religious freedom and each other. As Copts continue to suffer and die and their churches and property are destroyed, Christians have begun to [...]

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The Sad Plight of Syrian Christian Migrants – Exclusive

May 17, 2013 Featured News

16/5/13 OCP News Service Exclusive Dear all On 16th May 2013, OCP Secretariat received an email from Archbishop Eustathius Matta Roham, Of Syrian Orthodox Archdiocese of Jazirah & Euphrates. His Eminence was informed the following by Fr. Zakka Jalma Fr. Joseph Bali on the sad situation faced by a Syrian Christian Family who tried to [...]

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List of Orthodox Christian Educational Institutions Worldwide

May 14, 2013 Featured News

13/5/13 OCP Media Network  CLICK TO VISIT THE PAGE: Global: Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE Media Network has published the largest list of Orthodox Christian Educational Institutions worldwide. Effort has been made to consolidate a comprehensive list of Orthodox Christian higher educational institutions worldwide. It includes theological seminaries, institutions, academics, University faculties, Universities, iconography institutes etc. Related areas to Orthodox Christianity like Byzantine [...]

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Patriarch Bartholomew: God and state will protect me

May 14, 2013 Featured News

World Bulletin/News Desk – 13/5/13 Ecumenical Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew I said that he is not concerned over assassination claims as he believes God and his state will protect him. Ecumenical Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew I, commenting on a recently uncovered alleged plot to assassinate him, has said that he is not concerned over assassination claims as [...]

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Egyptian police refuse to protect Coptic Christians during gun and machete attack on mourners at cathedral

April 30, 2013 Featured News

  LEON WATSON - 30/4/13 Men with guns, wielding machetes and hurling stones laid siege to cathedral Uniformed officers looked on and appeared to help one gunman take aim Worshippers were streaming out of service held for victims of earlier clash It follows increase in tensions between Egypt’s Christians and Muslims A shocking video has emerged that appears to [...]

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Rebels kidnap two Aleppo bishops

April 23, 2013 Featured News

22/4/13 BEIRUT: Two Aleppian bishops were kidnapped by Syrian rebels in the outskirts of the city Monday evening, Lebanon’s National News Agency reported. The driver of Boulos al-Yazigi, the Greek Orthodox Archbishop of Aleppo and Iskandaroun and Yuhanna Ibrahim, the Syrian-Orthodox Metropolitan of Aleppo, was killed during the attack. The NNA reported that Ibrahim, Yazigi and the third man, [...]

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St. Joseph Orthodox Church to hold icon open house May 11

April 19, 2013 News

Journatic News Service - 19/4/13 Iconographer, Dmitry Shkolnik, is intalling the first icons in Houston depicting the saints of North America with an open house from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, May 11, at St. Joseph Orthodox Church in West Houston. “The art of iconography is alive and well, and iconographer, Dmitry Shkolnik, is installing the first [...]

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Serbia buries 13 victims of shooting spree

April 13, 2013 Featured News

FOCUS News Agency – 13/4/13 Velika Ivanca. Church bells rang out in the tiny Serbian village of Velika Ivanca on Friday, as hundreds of tearful mourners buried 13 people gunned down in Serbia’s worst massacre in two decades, AFP reported. Mourners carrying flowers and candles and mostly dressed in black queued to pay their respects to the six [...]

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Bulgarians place highest trust in Bulgaria’s Orthodox Church: poll

April 4, 2013 Featured News

4/4/13 Sofia. Bulgarians place highest trust in the Bulgarian Orthodox Church and this is the only institution with a positive rating, show the results of the latest public opinion survey carried out by the Institute of Social Surveys and Marketing MBMD, presented at a press conference on Tuesday, FOCUS News Agency reporter informed. According to [...]

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Armenian church in Turkey rings bell for first time in nearly 100 years

April 2, 2013 Featured News

DİYARBAKIR / ANKARA – Doğan News Agency – 2/4/13 The Armenian community has rung the bells of Diyarbakır’s Surp Giragos Armenian Church for the first time in 98 years to celebrate the Easter holiday, but failed to hold a proper mass due to a lack of priests to take part, Doğan news ageny reported yesterday. [...]

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Syria’s Christian Community Under Attack

March 30, 2013 Featured News

30/3/13 Beirut — The plight of Syria’s Christian community has returned to the fore once again this week after opposition forces claimed that the Assad regime has targeted churches in the Deir Ezzor region. Websites affiliated with the Syrian opposition posted videos allegedly showing damage to churches in the region as a result of air [...]

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Syrian Christian refugees turn to churches for help

March 28, 2013 News

James Martone  Catholic News Service 28/3/13 ISTANBUL Churches and monasteries in Turkey are struggling to shelter a rising number of Syrian Christian refugees who are reluctant to seek help at government-run relief camps because of reported Muslim extremism, said a Catholic Relief Services staffer. Sleiman Saikali, program officer for the U.S. bishops’ relief and development agency, [...]

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Byzantine Orthodox Concert to be held at Abu Dhabi

March 22, 2013 Featured News

OCP News Service 22/3/2013 St Nicholas Center, Abu Dhabi  School of Ecclesiastic Music Choir Location of St Andrews Church Complex  Pictures of St Nicholas Orthodox Church Abu Dhabi: The St Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church will host a Byzantine Orthodox Concert during the holy and great Lenten period. The programme will be held at St Nicholas Greek Orthodox [...]

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Turkish President Gül includes minority leader on Sweden trip

March 9, 2013 Featured News

Sevil Küçükkoşum sevil.kucukkosum@hdn.com.tr ANKARA – Hürriyet Daily News 9/3/13 In the first ever state visit by a Turkish head of state, President Abdullah Gül will travel to Sweden on March 11, at the invitation of King Carl XVI Gustaf. Patriarchal Vicar of the Syriac Orthodox Church Metropolitan Filiksinos Yusuf Çetin will be the first ever [...]

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‘A nation that showed courage’: Bulgaria and the Jews

March 8, 2013 Featured News

  CLIVE LEVIEV-SAWYER in ANALYSIS, BULGARIA, NEWS, PERSPECTIVES 8/3/13 Had Bulgaria’s history been different 70 years ago, March 10 would be an occasion for the deepest mourning, because that was the date marked in 1943 for the deportation of Bulgarian Jews to Nazi Holocaust death camps. There is, of course, a day of mourning for the six million who died [...]

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Consecration of Abune Mathias of Ethiopia – Exclusive Snaps

March 5, 2013 Featured News

          OCP News Service 5/3/13 Exclusive Coverage Addis Ababa: His Holiness Abuna Mathias was consecrated as the Sixth Patriarch and Catholicos of Ethiopia, Ichege of the See of St. Tekle Haymanot, Archbishop of Axum enthroned at Addis Ababa on March 3rd Sunday 2013. His Holiness Beslius Paulose II, Catholicos of the [...]

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Holy springs, healing springs: Istanbul’s ayazma

March 2, 2013 Featured News
Istanbul has quite a few holy springs, referred to as ayazma from the Greek, meaning holy water. The most important of the ayazmas in Istanbul is the one in Balıklı.

Niki GammISTANBUL – Hürriyet Daily News 2/3/13 The most important of the ayazmas in Istanbul is the one in Balıklı, outside the Theodosian walls near Silivrikapı. This spring, which belongs to the Greek Orthodox Church, is dedicated to the Virgin Mary Springs are to be found all over the world and nowhere more so than [...]

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Orthodox leaders to meet in Istanbul

March 2, 2013 Featured News
‘Russia’s presence in such a meeting is a clear sign of the value given to the Fener Greek Patriarchate,’ Metropolitan of Bursa Lambriniadis says. DAILY NEWS photo, Emrah GÜREL

Vercihan Ziflioğlu vercihan.ziflioglu@hurriyet.com.tr ISTANBUL- Hürriyet Daily News 2/3/13 Leading Orthodox parliament members from various countries will meet in Istanbul on March 3 and 4 for a conference entitled “The Social Dimension of Monotheistic Religion.” Organized by The Inter-parliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy (IAO), established upon the initiative of the Hellenic Parliament, the conference will be held [...]

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Abune Mathias Elected as the new Patriarch of Ethiopia

February 28, 2013 Featured News

  28/2/13 Addis Ababa : Archbishop of  Jerusalem, Abune Mathias is elected as the 6th Patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church .Abune Mathias won 500 of the 806 votes. He will be known as 6th Patriarch and Catholicos of Ethiopia, Ichege of the See of St. Tekle Haymanot and Archbishop of Axum. Catholicos of the East [...]

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