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Unique Dinner of St. Irene’s Monastery Held at Stathakion Center

March 6, 2013 News

By Catherine Tsounis – 4/3/13 A step into the past of Greek culture was experience by all at the Sacred Patriarchal and Stavropegial Orthodox Monastery of St. Irene Chrysovalantou Afternoon Luncheon at the Stathakion Cultural Center in Astoria, New York. The event was held on Sunday, February 24th. Traditional Greek cuisine with folklore music, dancing [...]

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Serbian Orthodox Monastery of Assumption of the Virgin Destroyed

January 4, 2013 Featured News
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Kisha D Dorado Delegate and Correspondent OCP News Service 04/01/2013 Belgrade: Albanians last night completely destroyed the monastery “Assumption of the Virgin” in southern Serbia. Monastery of the Assumption of Virgin” which is located in the vicinity of Vladicin Han was vandalized last night. The door was smashed, and the entire interior were broken. The [...]

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Petition Campaign to Save Historic Syriac Orthodox Monastery in Mardin

July 13, 2012 Featured News

12/7/2012 Some 300 writers, academics and artists in have joined a petition campaign to protest a verdict by the Turkish Supreme Court of Appeals to nationalize the estates of the Mor Gabriel Monastery (Mardin), the oldest surviving Syriac Orthodox monastery in the world, dating back to 397 AD. Established in 397 A.D., the Mor Gabriel [...]

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New Papal Tomb St.Bishoy Coptic Orthodox Monastery (Snaps)

March 20, 2012 Featured News

19/3/2012 New Papal Tomb at St.Bishoy Coptic Orthodox Monastery-Wadi Al Natroun – Egypt, where Pope Shenouda will be laid to rest on Tuesday, 20th of March2012. Source:

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New Papal Tomb at St.Bishoy Coptic Orthodox Monastery(Video)

March 19, 2012 Featured News
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19/3/2012 New Papal Tomb at St.Bishoy Coptic Orthodox Monastery-Wadi Al Natroun – Egypt, where Pope Shenouda will be laid to rest on Tuesday, 20th of March2012. Source:

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‘Weeping’ statue on display at Southbridge church

January 21, 2012 News

21/1/2012 SOUTHBRIDGE — The Holy Myrrh Streaming Icon of St. Anna — a statue of Jesus Christ’s grandmother that many believe weeps, and has been associated with some purported miracles — will visit St. Michael’s Orthodox Christian Church this weekend. “It’s an honor that the icon will be here,” said the Rev. Peter Preble, the [...]

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Orthodox nun talks about prayer

January 13, 2012 News

12/1/2012 Mother Gabriella, abbess of Dormition of the Mother of God Orthodox Monastery in Rives Junction, will speak Sunday, Jan. 15, at Sacred Heart Banquet Conference Center in Livonia. Her talk, “Weaving Prayer into the Fabric of Daily Life,” will start at 1 p.m. at the center, located at 29125 West Six Mile, east of [...]

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Article on Decani Orthodox Monastery Wins Prize in Readers’ writing competition 2011

November 17, 2011 Featured News
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17/11/2011 At a monastery in the mountains of Kosovo, Sarah George Thengungal finds the monks’ chanting and their fiery plum brandy equally uplifting. THE WINNER Driving through the armoured gates of the Serbian Orthodox Visoki Decani monastery in our Kosovar government car (my friend, who worked for the EU in Kosovo, had the use of [...]

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An ancient Syriac Orthodox Monastery of Mor Augen on the southern slope of Mount Izlo in Turabdin is Reopened

July 22, 2011 News

21/7/2011 An ancient Syriac Orthodox Monastery of Mor Augen on the southern slope of Mount Izlo in Trurabdin is reopened and it will remain as the spiritual centre of the Syriac Orthodox Church in Ankara, Turkey. Mor Augen Monastery was founded in the 4th Century and it had more than 350 monks in those periods. [...]

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First Orthodox Monastery In Uganda Established

March 16, 2011 Featured News

15/3/2011 On the Sunday of Orthodoxy, March 13th, the Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa Theodoros II, after the Divine Liturgy, accompanied by His Eminence Metropolitan of Kampala Mr. Jonah, the Clergy, the Egyptian Ambassador, the Muslim religious worker in the area and many visitors went to an adjacent area of ​​the Parish [...]

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Ambassador of Greece visit His Holiness the Patriarch at the Mor Aphrem Monastery, Damascus

May 12, 2009 News

May 5, 2009: The Ambassador of Greece in Syria, Mrs Konstantina Zagorianou Prifti, today visited H.H. Patriarch Mor Ignatius Zakka-I Iwas at the Syrian Orthodox Monastery of Mor Aphrem the Syriac, in Ma`arat Sayyidnaya, near Damascus and offered Easter Greetings. The Ambassador also discussed about the forthcoming visit of His Holiness to Greece during …

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