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The First Ever Orthodox Church building in Pakistan Completed – Exclusive

December 20, 2013 Featured News

The Orthodox Mission in Pakistan ( Ecumenical Patriarchate) OCP News Service – 20/12/13  Visit OMP website: Pakistan: The Orthodox Mission have completed the construction of  first ever Church building in Pakistan. It is a great dream come true for the local Orthodox community in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Leadership of Fr John Tanveer An […]

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Picture: FOCUS News Agency Russians want to transform TZUM-Sofia into an Orthodox Church Museum (ROUNDUP)

December 12, 2013 News

12/12/13 Sofia. Russian investors want to purchase the building of TZUM-Sofia [an upmarket department store in the centre of Sofia] and transform it into an Orthodox Church Museum. The investment proposal for this move was sent to the office of TZUM. The document reads that the goal of the investment is to unite the cultural […]

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OCP Delegate Meets Metropolitan Mar Dioscoros Yuhanon of Chennai

November 29, 2013 Featured News

OCP News Service – 29/11/13 Visit MARP The Lost Orthodox Christians of St Gregorious of Parumala in Dindigul: India/Kerala: Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE Society delegate and Chief Project Coordinator of MARP(Metropolitan Alvaruz Julius Research Project) Ajesh Phillip met with Metropolitan Yuhannon Dioscorous of Chennai diocese of the Indian Malankara Orthodox Church during the last week of […]

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OCP Media Network reach two Million monthly readership Worldwide

November 19, 2013 Featured News

OCP News Service – 18/11/13 See Alexa ranking here: Global: Department of Technical Support announces that OCP Media Network has reached two Million monthly readership Worldwide. There has been continues hike in readership for the past six month. The two million reach is regular every month. This has been a steady hike form the last […]

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Provat bishop Ignatiy and Agathonisi bishop Boris compete for Bulgarian Orthodox metropolitan of Varna and Veliki Preslav

November 18, 2013 News

18/11/13 Varna: Provat bishop Ignatiy and Agathonisi bishop Boris are the two candidates for Bulgarian Orthodox metropolitan of Varna and Veliki Preslav. One of them will be elected metropolitan of Varna and Veliki Preslav, Borislav Avramov, member of the Varna and Veliki Preslav eparchy said for FOCUS News Agency . The two nominations were elected […]

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The Feast of St Gregory of Parumala the first Canonized Indian Saint

November 2, 2013 Featured News

2/11/13 – OCP News Service Official Website: Read the life history of St Gregorious of Parumala here: India/Kerala: The Feast of St Gregorious of Parumala will be held from 26th October 2013 to 2nd of November 2013. Saint Geevarghese Mar Gregorios or Parumala (15 June 1848 -2 November 1902) of Parumala was a bishop of the […]

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OCP Secretary Meets Patriarch Abune Mathias of Ethiopia

October 29, 2013 Featured News

  Yonas Gredew OCP News Service- October- November 2013 Addis Ababa: With the blessings of Rt Rev Chorbishop Kyrikose Thottupuram of Chicago (OCP Chancellor) George Alexander (OCP Secretary) paid a special visit to His Holiness Patriarch Abune Mathias of Ethiopia. Abune Mathias  is the Sixth Patriarch and Catholicos of Ethiopia, Archbishop of Axum and Ichege of the See of Saint Taklehaimanot who leads more than 45 million Ethiopian […]

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Archbishop Petros of Axum welcomes proposal for the second Addis Ababa Conference

October 29, 2013 Featured News

OCP News Service Yonas Gredew – October-November 2013 Addis Ababa: Archbishop Petros of Axum and All Ethiopia welcomed the proposals for holding a second Addis Ababa Conference. Earlier OCP Secretary George Alexander submitted a proposal to Patriarch Abune Mathias of Ethiopia requesting to hold the second Addis Ababa Conference in 2015. The details were shared […]

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Greek Orthodox Archbishop Petros of Axum and All Ethiopia receives OCP Secretary

October 29, 2013 Featured News

OCP News Service Yonas Gredew – October-November 2013 Addis Ababa: The Greek Orthodox Archbishop Petros of Axum and Archimandrite Chrysostom received Secretary George Alexander at the Metropolitan residence in the Capital City during the last week of October 2013. Secretary was accompanied by Fr Dr Jossi Jacob (Lecturer Holy Trinity Theological College and IMOC delegate […]

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OCP Secretary received by Archbishop Abune Samuel of Ethiopia

October 29, 2013 Featured News

  OCP News Service Yonas Gredew – October-November 2013 Addis Ababa: Archbishop Abune Samuel the head of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church Development and Inter-Church Aid Commission (EOC-DICAC) received George Alexander during the last week of October 2013. (EOC DICAC is the development wing of the church, which was established by a legal notice No. 415 […]

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OCP Secretary meets Dean of Holy Trinity University College

October 29, 2013 Featured News

OCP News Service Yonas Gredew – October-November 2013 Visit the website of Trinity Theological College: Addis Ababa: During the last week of October 2013, Secretary George Alexander was received by Archbishop Abune Timotheos the dean of the Holy Trinity University College of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. Secretary visited the dean at his residence and discussed […]

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On Faith: Metropolitan Methodios’ call to evangelize sparks discussion of true Orthodoxy

October 27, 2013 News

TERRY MATTINGLY – Scripps Howard News Service   27/10/13 It happens all the time: Church leaders stand at podiums and urge members of their flocks to go and share their faith, striving to win new converts. These speeches rarely make news, because they are not unusual. But something unusual happened earlier this month in Brookline, Mass. […]

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The Order of St. Andrew the Apostle, Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate Present the Athenagoras Human Rights Award to the CBS News Program “60 Minutes”

October 20, 2013 News

PR Newswire NEW YORK- 20/10/13 NEW YORK, Oct. 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ – The Order of St. Andrew the Apostle, Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate awarded the prestigious Athenagoras Human Rights Award to the CBS News television program 60 Minutes at the New York Hilton’s Grand Ballroom on Saturday Night. Honorees included, Jeff Fager, CBS News President and 60 Minutes Executive Producer; Bill Owens, Executive […]

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Terry Mattingly: Persecution stories on the rise worldwide

October 17, 2013 News

By Terry Mattingly From Scripps Howard News Service 17/10/13 JOPLIN, Mo. — Churches were burning in Pakistan, while African Christians died and radical forms of Islam threatened monasteries, sanctuaries and villages in Egypt, Syria and Iraq. That was 1997. Human rights scholar Paul Marshall kept hearing one question over and over when he addressed this […]

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Orthodox Church in Turkey wishes Muslims a happy Eid

October 14, 2013 News

14/10/13     World Bulletin / News Desk An orthodox church in the city of Iskenderun, in Turkey’s Hatay province, has hung a sign outside of their church wishing Muslims a happy Eid. The city of Iskenderun, otherwise known as Alexandretta, in Turkey’s Hatay province has always been known as an example of tolerance. This has been […]

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Orthodox Coptic bishop addresses bishops at plenary

October 9, 2013 News

Deborah Gyapong / Canadian Catholic News. SAINTE-ADELE, Que. (CCN)- 9/10/13 CCCB members hear about Mubarak regime and Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood Coptic Orthodox Archbishop Mina shared the plight of Copts and other Christians in Egypt with Canada’s Catholic Bishops Sept. 23. “Living in Canada and experiencing freedom of religion is something people take […]

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Syriacs to regain Mor Gabriel’s land, no move on Halki Seminary in ‘democratization package’

October 2, 2013 Featured News

ISTANBUL – Hürriyet Daily News – 2/10/13 The land of the historic Mor Gabriel Monastery will be returned to the Syriac community in Turkey as part of the “democratization package” announced by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan today, while the package fell short of meeting the expectations that the Halki Seminary could be reopened. […]

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Muslims Expel 6 Christian Brothers From Village in Egypt

September 30, 2013 News

30/9/13 (AINA) — Violence against Egyptian Christians erupted yesterday in the village of Zakaria, located in the Upper Egyptian province of Minya. Zakaria has a population of 4000, split evenly between Christians and Muslims. The violence began after a Muslim family accused Kirollos Sabet, 22, of having an illicit relationship with a Muslim woman, also […]

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Syrian Jihadist Rebels Murder Assyrian Man for Being Christian

September 28, 2013 Featured News

28/9/13 Al-Thawrah, Syria (AINA) — A 26 year-old Assyrian man, Ninar Odisho, was murdered on Saturday, September 21, in the afternoon in the city of Al-Thawra (al-Tabqah), where he had gone to safeguard his family’s house and property. Mr. Odisho was with two Muslim friends when they were approached by Jihadist rebels, who questioned the […]

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Maaloula’s cathedral and churches empty of Christians as Syria’s latest front-line fight takes its toll

September 15, 2013 Featured News

By Bill Neely, International Editor, ITV News, in Damascus and Maaloula 15/9/13 Maaloula’s cathedral and churches empty of Christians as Syria’s latest front-line fight takes its toll. Its churches are empty, its monasteries deserted, many pitted and holed by the battles raging around them. On Sunday thousands of Christians should have filled its streets for […]

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Syrian Christians Continually Targeted, Brutally Attacked, Says Religious Leader

September 11, 2013 News

MidEast Christian News - 11/9/13 Wadie el-Khazen, chairman of the Maronite General Council, condemned the assault on Christians in Maloula located on the outskirts of Damascus on Thursday. “What happened in Syria’s Maloula at the hands of Islamic extremists is a brutal targeting to the most important Christian stronghold in Syria and the Middle East. This […]

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Armenian Akdamar Church to host special Liturgy

September 8, 2013 News

World Bulletin / News Desk – September 2013 Akdamar Church in Turkey’s eastern province of Van will host the 4th special Liturgy on September 8. The annual mass will start at 11 a.m. Turkish local time and  will be conducted by Vicar of the Armenian Orthodox Church Aram Atesyan Preparations have been completed and scores of […]

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Pope Leads Prayers for Syrian Peace

September 8, 2013 News

VOA News – 8/9/13 Pope Francis has led a prayer vigil for peace in Syria, a country ravaged by civil war and facing possible U.S. military action in response to the alleged use of chemical weapons by the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Addressing tens of thousands of people at the Vatican Saturday, the […]

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A real saint on American soil?

September 5, 2013 News
Holy Resurrection Cathedral, Kodiak, where St Herman’s relics are kept.

Father John Parker Special to the Moultrie News 5/9/13 Many Americans think of “saints” in only a generic or proverbial sense. Someone who endures endless ridicules from another “is such a saint.” Or likewise a wife who cares for her long-ill husband, nursing him at his bedside for years “is a saint.” And while it […]

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The planned destruction of Christians in Syria

September 4, 2013 Featured News

Cliff Kincaid - 4/9/13 The New York Times story, “President Gains McCain’s Backing on Syria Attack,” is predictable, considering that Obama had invited Senators John McCain (R-AZ) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) to the White House for the specific purpose of supporting his proposed military strike on Syria. Obama has also asked the same two senators to […]

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