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The church that St. Thomas built

May 18, 2013 Featured News

Nita Sathyendran – 18/5/13 The Indian Malankara Orthodox Church In the midst of a quiet village, Nita Sathyendran finds Arapally, a heritage church believed to have been consecrated by St. Thomas the apostle “You mean Thomayaar koil? Straight ahead!” replies an auto-rickshaw driver as we stop at Thiruvithamcode in Kanyakumari district to ask for directions [...]

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Russian Activist Fined in Orthodox Church Slur Case

May 18, 2013 News

MOSCOW, May 17 (RIA Novosti/RAPSI) – A Moscow court fined the head of a consumer rights group 100,000 rubles (about $3,200) on Friday for libeling a Russian religious foundation. In an interview with Novaya Gazeta last September, Mikhail Anshakov, the head of Russia’s consumer rights watchdog, claimed the Christ the Savior Cathedral in downtown Moscow [...]

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Metropolitan Vladimir pleads that Mayor Dorin Chirtoaca does not authorize gay pride

May 17, 2013 Featured News

The Moldovan Orthodox Church – Moscow Patriarchate  17/5/13 His Eminence Metropolitan Vladimir addressed a message to General Mayor of Chisinau, Mr. Dorin Chirtoaca, pleading that the authorities do not allow the organization of a gay pride planned for the 19th of May. It is mentioned in the message: “The Metropolis of Chisinau and All Moldova continues to believe [...]

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Ecumenical Prayer held at Patriarch Ignatius Center

May 17, 2013 News

14/5/13 Syriac Orthodox Church in India  Ecumenical Prayer held at Patriarch Ignatius Center, Puthencruz for the release of two abducted Metropolitanas of the Holy Syriac Church (Mor Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim of the Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch, and Paul Yazigi of the Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch) on the second day of the Holy Synod [...]

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Georgia’s Orthodox Church urges ban on LGBT rights rally

May 17, 2013 Featured News

Agence France-Presse – 16/5/13 The head of Georgia’s influential Orthodox Church called Thursday on the authorities to ban a gay rights rally set to be held in the deeply religious country. The call came a day before gay rights activists were to stage a brief demonstration in central Tbilisi to mark the International Day against [...]

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The Cultural and Patrimony Counsellors of the Country Met the Patriarch of Romania

May 16, 2013 News

On 14 May 2013, His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church met at the Patriarchate Palace the counsellors of the cultural departments, as well as the persons in charge with church patrimony of the eparchies of the country. These days they participated in the regional workshop entitled the “Value and symbol-conservation, restoration and [...]

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Patriarch Kirill: The dreams of the Chinese Orthodox Church’s bright future begins to come true

May 15, 2013 Featured News

On May 12, 2013, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia had a talk with Chinese believers at the Russian Embassy in Beijing. The Primate of the Russian Church had met many of them before when he visited China as chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations. He reminded his [...]

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Primate of Russian Orthodox Church meets with religious figures of China

May 15, 2013 Featured News

  On 13 May 2013, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, who is on his visit to China, met with religious leaders of the People’s Republic of China at the headquarters of the State Administration for Religious Affairs (SARA). Taking part in the meeting was Mr. Zhang Lebin, deputy director-general of the [...]

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JURISDICTIONAL DISAGREEMENT BETWEEN THE PATRIARCHATES OF ANTIOCH AND JERUSALEM ARISES

May 15, 2013 News

15/5/13 According to the Greek Church news agencies Amen and Romfea, the Patriarchate of Antioch has expressed its protest in connection with the election on May 4, 2013 of Archimandrite Makarios as Archbishop of Qatar by the Holy Synod of the Orthodox Church of Jerusalem, reports Sedmitza.ru. The Patriarchate of Antioch considers that Qatar together [...]

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Churches denounce Israel violence against Christians

May 13, 2013 Featured News

13/5/13 JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Patriarchs and heads of Christian churches in Jerusalem on Sunday released a joint statement denouncing attacks by Israeli police officers on worshipers and pilgrims during Holy Saturday at the Church of Holy Sepulcher. Signatories of the statement highlighted that they saw “awful scenes of the brutal treatment to clerics, average people [...]

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Bulgarian Orthodox Church Honors Sts Cyril and Methodius

May 12, 2013 Featured News

12/5/13 Bulgaria’s Orthodox Church celebrates Saturday, May 11, the feast day of Sts.Cyril and Methodius, two of the fathers of the Slavic literary culture. The two brothers, Saints Cyril and Methodius were born in Thessaloniki in the 9th century, in 827 and 826 respectively. They became missionaries of Christianity among the Slavs and influenced the cultural development of all Slavic people. Cyril and Methodius are known as the [...]

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Stolen religious items returned to Greek Orthodox Church in Watertown

May 12, 2013 News

By Dana Forsythe Wicked Local Watertown 12/5/13 On Friday morning a garbage bag full of previously stolen religious items was found behind the Taxiarchae/Archangels Greek Orthodox Church in Watertown. According to Fr. Demetrios Tonias of Archangels Greek Orthodox Church, a maintenance man found the items behind the church’s social hall when he arrived to clean [...]

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Divine service on the holy day of Christ’s Radiant Resurrection

May 11, 2013 Featured News

The Chinese Orthodox Church English translation by Nina Tkachuk Dimas On the night of May 4 to 5, 2013 Paschal services took place at the Dormition Church in Beijing: the Midnight office, procession, Paschal Matins and the Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom. This year the service was led by Archpriest Andrew Milkin, head of the Patriarchal protocol. [...]

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Chinese President Meets Russian Patriarch

May 11, 2013 Featured News

11/5/13 President Xi Jinping met with Kirill, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia and head of the Russian Orthodox Church, on Friday. Xi said Chinese and Russian people are closely connected by a deep traditional friendship, as well as a realistic need for cooperation. Recalling his state visit to Russia in March at the invitation [...]

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Coptic Pope stresses urgency of Christian unity at Vatican

May 10, 2013 Featured News

By Estefania Aguirre and David Uebbing 10/5/13 Vatican City, May 10, 2013 / 07:06 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Egypt met with Pope Francis at the Vatican and spoke about the urgent need for unity among Christians in the Middle East. “We must prepare our people for this very [...]

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The Patriarch of Romania Received the Visit of a Delegation of the Orthodox Church of Finland

May 10, 2013 Featured News

On 9 May 2013, His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of Romania received the visit of a delegation of the Orthodox Church of Finland. The delegation was headed by His Eminence Ambrozie, Metropolitan of Helsinki. During the meeting matters of common concern were discussed focused on the good collaboration in the confession of the Orthodox faith. “During [...]

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Leaders of Christian organizations ask Ukrainian president to release Tymoshenko from prison

May 10, 2013 News

Kiev, May 6, Interfax – The heads of several Christian religious organizations except the primate of Ukranian Orthodox Church have asked President Viktor Yanukovich to show mercy on Easter Sunday and pardon the country’s former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, who was sentenced to seven years in prison for abuse of power. “It was with joy [...]

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No conflict between Church and State

May 9, 2013 Featured News

9/5/13 BELGRADE – Bishop Irinej of Backa, spokesperson for the Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC), stated on Wednesday that there is no conflict between the state and the Church, stressing that they are only holding different viewpoints. At a debate dubbed “State-Church – secular and religious tolerance” held at Tanjug’s Press Center, the Bishop noted that [...]

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Bartholomew leads Orthodox Easter celebration on Gokceada

May 6, 2013 Featured News

6/5/13 Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I on Sunday joined the Orthodox celebration of Easter, one of the main holidays in the Christian world, for the first time on the island of Gökçeada (Imbros), where the patriarch was born and raised. Bartholomew, spiritual leader of about 300 million Orthodox Christians around the world, led the service at [...]

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Georgian Orthodox Church Calls for Anti-Abortion Law

May 6, 2013 News

Civil Georgia, Tbilisi – 6/5/13 Patriarch of the Georgian Orthodox Church, Ilia II, has called on the Georgian authorities in his Easter epistle for adopting anti-abortion law, saying that it would contribute to resolving country’s “grave demographic situation.” “Abortion is a heinous murder of an innocent creature committed with a decision and intent of parents. [...]

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Iconographer’s 6-Year Project Lights Up New York Serbian Orthodox Church

May 3, 2013 News

Melissa Barnhart , CP Contributor 3/5/12 The Rev. Rastko Trbuhovich, the parish priest at St. Stephen Serbian Orthodox Church in Lackawanna, N.Y., said he’s proud to welcome the visitors who are flocking to his church to view the completed work of Father Theodore Jurewicz, an American painter and iconographer who last month completed a six-year project of [...]

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Settlers Burn Greek Orthodox Church Land In Jerusalem

April 29, 2013 Featured News

29/4/13 On Sunday evening April 28, 2013, a group of extremist Israeli settlers burnt a land that belongs to the Greek Orthodox Church in Wadi Hilweh, in Silwan town, in occupied East Jerusalem. The Wadi Hilweh Information Center reported that dozens of extremist Israeli settlers and soldiers gathered in the area, and that the armed [...]

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Norfolk churches celebrate Orthodox Easter

April 29, 2013 News

29/4/13 Orthodox churches in Norwich and Kings Lynn are offering a warm invitation to come and celebrate Easter with them over the weekend of May 4-5. The Romanian Orthodox Church in Norwich (pictured right) and the British Orthodox Church, theChurch of St Mary and St Felix in Babingley on the Sandringham Estate are offering an invitation to join them for their upcoming Easter Celebrations next weekend. [...]

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Orthodox Monasteries in Spain

April 27, 2013 News

Kathleen March, Demand Media 27/4/13 In March 2012, the bishopric of Lleida granted the use of the Villaler monastery, located in Alta Ribagorça, to the Rumanian Orthodox Church. Lleida bishop Joan Piris and Timoteo, bishop of the Rumanian Orthodox Church of Spain and Portugal, signed an agreement for use of the former Summer Seminary in [...]

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Alleged child molester, bishop Kacavenda, “punished” by Serbian Orthodox Church

April 27, 2013 News
St. Vasilije monastery in Bijeljina, image credits: http://www.kurir-info.rs/

27/4/13 BELGRADE – Bishop of Zvornik and Tuzla, Vasilije Kacavenda, who has been retired by Serbian Orthodox Church, will leave his lavish palace in Bijeljina and move into a cell of the male monastery Vasilije Ostroski in the center of Bijeljina or monastery Sisatovac on Fruska Gora, reports news magazine “Kurir”. Recently, after the affair [...]

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