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Holy Trinity Monastery to open its doors to the public

by OCP May 11, 2012 News
Holy Trinity Monastery, on Robinson Road in Jordanville, will have an open house on Saturday, May 19.

By Stephanie Sorrell-White GateHouse News Service 9/5/2012 Jordanville, N.Y. —Holy Trinity Monastery will open its doors to the public later this month to educate people on their history and the Russian Orthodox faith. “It’s the first time ever we’ve had an open house,” said Protodeacon Victor Lochmatow on Tuesday. “We’ve been talking about the need [...]

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Famous 13th century religious artefact makes flying visit to Wirral

by OCP May 9, 2012 News
The Kursk Root Icon

Linda Foo Guest, Heswall News 9/5/2012 A FAMOUS religious icon will make a flying visit to Wirral this Friday. The Kursk Root Icon will come to the little parish of St Elisabeth the New Martyr, based at the former Rake Lane Cemetery Chapel in Liscard. It will be the icon’s third visit to Wirral – [...]

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Armenian Apostolic church trying to save buildings in Moldova

by OCP April 29, 2012 News

28/4/2012 YEREVAN.- The Armenian Apostolic Church intends to return the territories belonging to it in Moldova. The church territories were soled several years ago. There is unfavorable situation in Chisinau, said head of Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin press service Vahram Melikyan when the Armenian News-NEWS.am reached him for comment. He told that the head [...]

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Bulgarian and Russian orthodox churches can play role of a bridge between the two nations: Russian Patriarch

by OCP April 27, 2012 News

Focus News Agency 26/4/2012 Our two churches are brotherly churches, with very close historical, cultural and spiritual bonds, which date back into the past, Patriarch Kirill of Russia and All Moscow said in an interview with Bulgarian television TV7 ahead of his visit to Bulgaria between 27 and 29 April. Our two churches are brotherly [...]

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Armenians, Argentineans feel special love, affection toward each other – Catholicos

by OCP April 24, 2012 News

23/4/2012 ETCHMIADZIN. – The Catholicos of All Armenians, Karekin II, on Sunday received a delegation led by the Mayor of Buenos Aires, Mauricio Macri, who is Armenia to attend the “Yerevan: World Book Capital 2012” celebrations. Karekin II reflected on the Holy See of Saint Etchmiadzin’s role and significance in the beginning and development of [...]

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Land purchased for First Orthodox Church in Pakistan

by OCP April 17, 2012 Featured News

17/4/2012 Pakistan Pakistan: A piece of land has been purchased by the Greek Orthodox Church of Pakistan (Ecumenical Patriarchate) to build its own temple for worship. The land has been purchased under the leadership of Fr John Tanveer. Source: OCP News Service

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Petition of Vatican Apology for Complicities in the Ethiopian Genocide 1935-1941

by OCP April 12, 2012 Featured News

Please watch the video of the Pope blessing the Italian fascist army at 1′:30″ in this video. 12/4/2012 SIGN THE PETITION HERE: Vatican officials and clergy, under the spiritual leadership of Pope Pius XI, blessed Mussolini’s Fascist army on its way to carry out a systematic mass extermination campaign in Ethiopia that claimed the lives [...]

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Christian clerics alarmed at growing threats, persecution in Turkey

by OCP April 10, 2012 Featured News
This file photo shows the Dirisu home church located in Istanbul’s Şişli district. Many Christian clerics say police [officers] keep watch at their door during mass. DAILY NEWS photo

ISTANBUL – Hürriyet Daily News 10/4/2012 Vercihan Ziflioğlu vercihan.ziflioglu@hurriyet.com.tr In the wake of an attack against an Istanbul Protestant Pastor, Christian Clerics in Turkey say they feel alarmed at the accelerating number of such incidents and even hesitate to open their doors to people Christian clerics in Turkey have expressed their anxiety regarding the growing [...]

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SOME AFGHAN PARLIAMENT MEMBERS EMBRACED CHRISTIANITY

by OCP April 5, 2012 News

Iranian Christian news agency, Mohabat News 3/4/2012 Afghanistan, a country suffering from longstanding civil wars, has not seen the face of peace for a long period of time. Continuous bombings by fundamentalist Muslims have stolen peace from lives of Afghanis. However, more recently the country has been seeing some improvement in its situation and among [...]

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Orthodox Christianity as part of contemporary culture

by OCP April 5, 2012 News

4/4/2012 FOCUS News Agency Sofia. The first lecture on orthodox Christianity as part of contemporary culture was delivered yesterday at the Festa Sofia Hotel by the bishop Joan, vicar of Patriarch Maxim, the 24 Chasa daily informs. The event was organized by the Chairperson of the Board of Directors at Festa Holding and the Supervisory [...]

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Mar Seraphim to techies: Holy Eucharist is our participation in the body, blood of Christ

by OCP April 4, 2012 Featured News

Indian Orthodox Church Diocese Bengaluru Liju Cherian & Jiju Thomas 3/4/2012 IT group rechristens itself as ‘Fellowship of Orthodox Professionals’ BENGALURU/INDIA – HG Dr Abraham Mar Seraphim, Metropolitan, Bengaluru Diocese, has counseled IT professionals about how to prepare themselves for the Holy Eucharist. Dr Mar Seraphim who was addressing the recent monthly meeting of the [...]

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Cleric hopeful over reopening of Istanbul Greek Seminary

by OCP April 3, 2012 Featured News
The Hagia Triada Monastery’s archpriest and Metropolitan of Bursa Elpidophoros Lambriniadis says they have a feeling that Turkey will take steps toward reopening the Heybeliada Halki seminary in, which was hit hard by the political turmoil between Turkey, Greece and Cyprus in 1971 and closed down by Turkish officials. DAILY NEWS photo, Emrah GÜREL

ISTANBUL – Hürriyet Daily News Vercihan Ziflioğlu vercihan.ziflioglu@hurriyet.com.tr 3/4/2012 The classrooms of the Halki Greek Orthodox Seminary on Istanbul’s Heybeliada Island are being renovated with the motivation that the school will reopen soon, archpriest and Metropolitan of Bursa Elpidophoros Lambriniadis says A recent meeting between Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and U.S. President Barack [...]

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Catholicos Karekin II wishes PM Borisov luck in all his deeds

by OCP April 3, 2012 News

FOCUS News Agency 3/4/2012 Sofia. “Our Church was established in 301, when the Christianity was declared official religion. From here, we conduct the spiritual guidance of the Armenian nation all over the world,” said Catholicos Karekin II, Head of the Holy Armenian Apostolic Church, who met with Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov, who is on [...]

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Young filmmaker hopes to capture the spirituality of Orthodox Natives in the North

by OCP April 2, 2012 News

By MIKE DUNHAM Anchorage Daily News 1/4/2012 Dmitry Trakovsky wasn’t quite sure what he’d seen when he visited Alaska last August. The 26-year-old moviemaker from California had gotten on the art film map with his first feature documentary, “Meeting Andrei Tarkovsky,” which premiered at the Film Society of Lincoln Center in 2009. Now he had [...]

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Bulgaria: A Land of Antiquity and Resilient People

by OCP March 28, 2012 News

By Sharon Mitchell The Headliner News 28/3/2012 Bulgaria. Why the interest in this southeastern European country to the extent that someone would write an article about it? My answer is simple: There are many fascinating reasons to learn about this country that is wedged between Greece, Turkey to the south, Romania to the north, Serbia [...]

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News from Herzegovina

by OCP March 28, 2012 Featured News

28/3/2012 Serbian Church Gornje Hrasno – According to the tradition, people who originate from Gornje Hrasno, assemble on Mid-Lenten Sunday at the Divine Liturgy, in their village of the destroyed church of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist. It was the same also on this Mid-Lenten Sunday, on March 25, 2012. The Divine Liturgy [...]

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90% of Christians Driven Out of Homs, Syria

by OCP March 26, 2012 Featured News

26/3/2012 Boutros Hussein and Lee Jay Walker Assyrian International News Agency President Obama condemned the Syrian government for trying to protect Alawites, Christians, the role of women in society, and all Syrians who oppose Sunni Islamic radicalism. President Obama commented that “I strongly condemn the Syrian government’s unspeakable assault against the people of Homs.” However, [...]

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LSOCS Inviting Course Application

by OCP March 24, 2012 Featured News

Father Peter Farrington 24/3/2012 London School of Orthodox Christian Studies Website: There are three courses now available for registration from the London School of Orthodox Christian Studies. These are Orthodox Christology, which any student can register and begin immediately. Church History, which is available for registration now, and will be available for study on 1st [...]

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Christians’ Future in the Iraqi Kurdistan

by OCP March 23, 2012 News

23/3/2012 Abdulla Hawez Abdulla Assyrian International News Agency As it becomes clear that one major outcome of the region’s revolutions will be the empowerment of Islamists, the Arab Spring threatens to become a nightmare for the Middle East’s Christian minority. Christians across the Arab world are afraid that a change of regime — specifically one [...]

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Syriac leader refuses to move patriarchate to Turkey

by OCP March 23, 2012 Featured News
Echove Gouriye says the patriarchate holds Syriac population together in Syria.

Vercihan Ziflioğlu vercihan.ziflioglu@hurriyet.com.tr ISTANBUL – Hürriyet Daily News 22/3/2012 The head of the Syriac Union Party in Syria stated his opposition to the relocation of the Syriac Orthodox Patriarchate in Damascus and the Syriac Catholic Patriarchate in Beirut back into Turkey. “We have a large population in Syria, and the patriarchate is the highest institution [...]

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Series of attacks in Iraq, dozens of dead. Church of St Mathew in Baghdad targeted

by OCP March 21, 2012 Featured News

21/3/2012 Asia News A bomb exploded near the Syrian-Orthodox church in the capital, killing two guards and wounding five others. Across the country there were over 20 explosions. AsiaNews sources: attacks to derail the upcoming Arab League summit. The violence set to continue. Baghdad (AsiaNews) – The Syrian Orthodox Church of St. Matthew, in Baghdad, [...]

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International Publication on St Thomas Christians by Dr M. Kurain Thomas

by OCP March 20, 2012 Featured News

20/3/2012 Purchase your copy from Amazon here: From More Book here: At LAMBERT Website: India/Kerala/Kottayam: Dr M Kurian Thomas has brought his first international publication titled “The Indian Way of Christianity- History of Malankara Nazaranis, otherwise St Thomas Christians till C.E 1815″. The book as been published by LAMBERT academic Publishing company and is now [...]

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Update: News from Cairo

by OCP March 18, 2012 Featured News

British Orthodox Church – Under the Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate 18/3/2012 Abba Seraphim and His Grace Bishop Angaelos arrived on the same flight at Cairo airport at 5.15 a.m. local time. Abba Seraphim was met at the airport by Shenouda Mamdouh. His secretary in Egypt. The Holy Synod will meet at noon at the Patriarchate. after [...]

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First look at Pope Shenouda after the heavenly Abode (Snaps)

by OCP March 18, 2012 Featured News

Special Courtesy: Antonios Ramzi Source: OCP News Service

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300 Muslim Lawyers Storm Egyptian Court, Prevent Lawyers for Christian From Entering

by OCP March 16, 2012 News

By Mary Abdelmassih Assyrian International News Agency 16/3/2012 (AINA) — More than 300 Muslim lawyers inside and outside a courthouse in the southern Egyptian province of Assuit today prevented defense lawyer Ahmad Sayed Gabali, who is representing the Christian Makarem Diab, from going into court. Mr. Diab was found guilty of ‘Insulting the Muslim Prophet’ [...]

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