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Ancient church finds modern appeal

by OCP May 7, 2012 News
Father Gregory Horton stands in the nave of Holy Myrrhbearers Orthodox Christian Church, just south of Bonners Ferry. More than 100 parish members travel from as far away as Canada to take part in a form of worship that the pastor says hasn’t changed in 2,000 years. (Photo by DAVID GUNTER)

By DAVID GUNTER, Feature correspondent 6/5/2012 BONNERS FERRY — Take the northern entrance to Pleasant Valley Loop Road and, in less than half a mile, you come upon what appears to be a little country church. Only the sign outside — announcing the presence of the Holy Myrrhbearers Orthodox Christian Church — hints that there [...]

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Patriarch Kirill calls on Bulgarian PM to base policies on Orthodox Christian values

by OCP May 3, 2012 News

Sofia, May 2, Interfax – Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia has said he attaches great importance to the fact that Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov is an Orthodox Christian. “I sympathize with your Orthodox Christian choice and would like to wish God’s help in your service and that your connection with the Orthodox [...]

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Changing Frescos At Macedonia Orthodox Church Mystify Christian Worshippers

by OCP April 10, 2012 Featured News

10/4/2012 AP Saint Dimitrija: Changing Frescos At Macedonia Orthodox Church Mystify Christian Worshippers SKOPJE, Macedonia — Thousands of Orthodox Christian worshippers from across Macedonia are lining up to visit a church where a cleric says frescoes of saints have begun to appear brighter in color without any obvious explanation. Father Zoran of Saint Dimitrija church [...]

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Cyprus’ Orthodox Christian Church blasts priest caught with drugs at airport

by OCP April 8, 2012 News

By Associated Press 6/4/2012 NICOSIA, Cyprus — The Orthodox Christian Church of Cyprus said Friday that it is “deeply distressed” over the arrest of a parish priest on suspicion of trafficking drugs to the island from abroad. The Church said in a statement that the “abhorrent actions” of Father Panayiotis Triantafyllou, a Greek national who [...]

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NBC to broadcast Resurrection Service and Divine Liturgy of Pascha

by OCP April 5, 2012 Featured News

5/4/2012 Flushing, N.Y., April 4, 2012 — The National Council of Churches, the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, and the Interfaith Broadcasting Commission invite Easter worshippers to witness the Orthodox Christian Resurrection Service and Divine Liturgy of Pascha. The service, recorded live on Pascha 2011 at St. Nicholas Church in Flushing, N.Y., will be broadcast [...]

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Roman Catholics will Penetrate into Orthodox Christian Hubs in Serbia

by OCP March 24, 2012 Featured News
(Fr. Mirko Stefkovic, Secretary of the Bishop of Subotica, Serbia)

24/3/2012 Vatican view Serbian entry into European Union as an opportunity to spread Roman Catholic dominance into the country. They will use it to penetrate into Orthodox Christian hubs in Serbia and manipulate the situation in complete favor of Vatican imperial agenda. “In Serbia, the Catholic Church has been through a considerable amount of …

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Oromia-Ethiopia: Disturbing Photo from the Mount Cuqaallaa/Ziquala Fire

by OCP March 23, 2012 News

21/3/2012 The following is a very disturbing photo showing some portions of the burned forest on Mount Cuqaallaa (or Ziquala), located some 25km southwest of Bishoftu town in Oromiyaa. Mount Ziquala is the location of an Orthodox Christian church as well as a monastery. According to news reports, part of the monastery has also been [...]

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On being an Orthodox Christian

by OCP March 14, 2012 Featured News

Michael Pravica, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Physics University of Nevada, Las Vegas 14/3/2012 There is a popular saying among the Serbs: “Teško biti Srbin” (it’s difficult to be a Serb) that I frequently heard as a child but never really understood until I sought, as an activist, to help give near totally censored Serbians and [...]

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The Patriarch is Ecumenical

by OCP March 13, 2012 Featured News

12/3/2012 GÖKHAN BACIK g.bacik@todayszaman.com It is sometimes very difficult to understand why Turkey refrains from reforms in various fields. In the past, we used to think that Turkey was lagging behind in reforms because of the attitudes of the Kemalist elites. However, in this Turkey of 2012, where non-Kemalist actors almost completely dominate the political [...]

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Philadelphia Author Recounts Life Journey Caring for Elderly, Colorful Mother

by OCP March 11, 2012 News
(Author Susan Morse. Credit: Pat Loeb)

By Pat Loeb 10/3/2012 PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Some people get the call late in life. That’s certainly the case with Sister Brigid, a Philadelphia woman who became an Orthodox Christian nun in her 80s. Her daughter, Susan Morse, tells the story in a book called The Habit, which got a reading this week at Springside [...]

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Bob Marley was Orthodox Christian long before death, said to have Called upon Jesus on his deathbed

by OCP February 29, 2012 Featured News

February 2012 File News, First Week of February Bob Marley was born on Feb 6., and although many are familiar with the reggae legend as a Rastafarian, others may be surprised to hear that he was baptized as an Orthodox Christian before his death. Marley was an influential figure in the global expansion of a [...]

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Muslims and Christians must also serve in IDF

by OCP February 28, 2012 News

By Moshe Arens 28.02.12 It was not right that the attention of the Tal Law’s cancellation has all been focused on the ultra-Orthodox community’s absence from the IDF, while the Muslim and Christian community has been effectively disregarded; equality is indivisible. If you’re an Israeli citizen who is ultra-Orthodox, Muslim or Christian, you’re exempt from [...]

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London School of Orthodox Christian Studies

by OCP February 19, 2012 Featured News

19/2/2012 SCHOOL WEBSITE: The website for the London School of Orthodox Christian Studies is now online and if you would like to be a student on the first course which is being presented, an Introduction to Orthodox Christology, then you can register now. The learning platform website will open on the 1st March and account [...]

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AHEPA Initiatives to Help Relieve People in Debt-Ridden Greece

by OCP February 16, 2012 Featured News

16/2/2012 Stella Tsolakidou To donate to AHEPA Foundation, Inc. online, visit www.ahepa.org The American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association (AHEPA), a leading membership-based association for the nation’s three million American citizens of Greek heritage and Philhellenes, will mobilize its chapters, and work in cooperation with the International Orthodox Christian Charities (IOCC), to help with humanitarian relief [...]

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Macedonians subject to religious tensions

by OCP February 4, 2012 Featured News
After a carnival in which some mocked the Quran, two Macedonian Orthodox churches were burned. [Tomislav Georgiev/SETimes]

By Misko Taleski for Southeast European Times in Struga 03/02/12 The government and religious communities are attempting to calm the situation following the burning of two Macedonian Orthodox churches. The situation in Struga is calming down, residents say, after Muslims held violent protests this week and last, causing a series of religious-based incidents. Tensions flared [...]

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Macedonia: Orthodox Church Saved From Blaze

by OCP February 1, 2012 Featured News
The storage shed for fire wood built beside the Christian Orthodox church St. Nikola is seen burnt, front, in the dominantly Muslim village of Labunista in southwestern Macedonia, on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012. An Orthodox Christian church famed for its valuable icons was almost set alight in southern Macedonia Monday overnight, amid religious tension between Christians and Muslims in this part of the country. Photo: BORIS GRDANOSKI / AP

By Sinisa Jakov Marusic Balkan Insight 31/1/2012 An Orthodox church was set on fire on Monday night in the latest in a series of violent incidents that started when Muslims in Struga took offence at a local carnival. Unknown arsonists on Monday night set ablaze an Orthodox church near Struga in southwest Macedonia in the [...]

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Metropolitan opens 95th Central Travancore Orthodox Christian Meet

by OCP January 30, 2012 News
Mathews Mar Savarios, Metropolitan of the Kandanad diocese of the Malankara Orthodox Church, inaugurating the 95th Central Travancore Orthodox Christian Convention at the St Stephen’s Cathedral premises at Makkamkunnu near Pathanamthitta on Sunday. Photo: Special Arrangement.

Indian Orthodox Church 29/1/2012 The 95th Central Travancore Orthodox Christian Convention began at the St Stephen’s Cathedral grounds at Makkamkunnu near here on Sunday. Mathews Mar Savarios, Metropolitan of the Kandanad diocese of the Malankara Orthodox Church, inaugurated the convention in the forenoon. Peter Ramban, Sleeba Ramban, Samuel Ramban, Yakoob Ramban, Paul Ramban and Fr [...]

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Strong Orthodox Christian presence at annual DC March for Life

by OCP January 25, 2012 Featured News

WASHINGTON, DC [OCA] 24/1/2012 His Beatitude, Metropolitan Jonah, together with Their Graces, Bishops Tikhon of Philadelphia and Eastern Pennsylvania, Melchisedek of Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania, Michael of New York and New Jersey, and Matthias of Chicago and the Midwest led hundreds of Orthodox Christian clergy, faithful, and seminarians at the 39th annual March for Life [...]

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Armenian Christmas in Holy Land – Snaps

by OCP January 19, 2012 Featured News
An Orthodox Armenian worshiper prays, in front of an icon of the Virgin Mary holding Jesus Christ in the Church of the Nativity, during a procession celebrating Christmas Day according to Julian calender, in the West Bank town of Bethlehem on January 18, 2012. While most Armenians celebrate Christmas on January 6, the Orthodox Armenians of Jerusalem mark the birth of Jesus on January 18, according to an ancient Julian calender.

The Armenian Orthodox Christian in Jerusalem are the last ones to celebrate the Nativity of our Lord and every year it is on the 18th of January. 19/1/2012 Source:

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Belarus’ top Orthodox Christian cleric urges Greek authorities to release monastery abbot

by OCP January 13, 2012 News

12/1/2012 Patriarchal Exarch Filaret, head of the Russian Orthodox Church in Belarus, has appealed to the Greek authorities to release the abbot of the prestigious Vatopedi monastery on Mount Athos. Abbot Ephraim, 56, who is accused of arranging land swaps between Vatopedi and the state which are thought to have cost the Greek government millions [...]

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President congratulates Azerbaijan’s Orthodox Christian Community

by OCP January 6, 2012 News
Ilham Aliyev

5/1/2012 President Ilham Aliyev congratulated Azerbaijan’s Orthodox Christian community on Christmas. The letter reads: “I congratulate the whole Christian community of Azerbaijan on the occasion of Christmas and I extend my heartfelt greetings and best wishes to you on such a dear day. Religions and confessions in Azerbaijan famous a model of tolerance, place of [...]

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Greek government faces international criticism for jail threat to cleric

by OCP December 24, 2011 Featured News

International News Desk 24/12/2011 The Greek courts have ruled that a respected Orthodox Christian monk will be imprisoned over Christmas over a land dispute in northern Greece. Abbot Ephraim who leads the largest monastic order in the Orthodox Christian world, has strong links to the royal family in the United Kingdom, among others, and his [...]

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Orthodox Christian Humanitarian Visit to Kosovo Remains as Planned Amid Border Instability

by OCP December 18, 2011 Featured News

18/12/2011 CLICK HERE TO VISIT THE WEBSITE AND MAKE YOUR VALUABLE DONATIONS “We’re in the final and most crucial weeks of fundraising for our latest mission to Kosovo. While we are close, we are hoping that the holiday season sparks extra generosity in people and we cross our goal before the first of the year.” [...]

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Nativity Concert by Pan-Orthodox Choir of Buffalo at Sts. Peter and Paul Orthodox Church

by OCP December 7, 2011 News

By Betty Vladmir Freehyk 2011/12/7 (SkyNewswire.com) On Sunday, December 11, 2011 the Pan-Orthodox Choir of Niagara Frontier will perform their annual Nativity Concert at Saints Peter and Paul Orthodox Church, 45 Ideal Street in Buffalo, NY at 7:00PM. The concert will feature the Masterpieces of Orthodox Choral Music. Following the concert every one is invited [...]

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Contemporary Orthodox Christian Singer/Songwriter, Jim Giatas, Offers His Spiritual Music On His New Website

by OCP December 3, 2011 Featured News

Fredonia 3/12/2011 Visit his Website here Orthodox Christian singer/songwriter, Jim Giatas (The “i” is silent and the “a” is soft), has created a compelling new website featuring his song, “If You Imagine.” Contemporary Orthodox Christian singer/songwriter, Jim Giatas has created a new website at www.jimgiatas.com. All of Jim’s 11 albums are available for sampling and [...]

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