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Turkey uncovers alleged plot to kill Orthodox Patriarch

May 10, 2013 Featured News

Reuters – 10/5/13 ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey is investigating an alleged plot to assassinate Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, spiritual leader of the world’s Orthodox Christians, and has stepped up security around the patriarchate in Istanbul, his spokesman said on Friday. Spokesman Dositheos Anagnostopoulos said the patriarch had not received any direct threats but had learned of the alleged plot from Turkish media, which was later [...]

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Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina elected as the Old Orthodox Bishop of Rome

March 14, 2013 Featured News

Vatican/Global: Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina has been elected as the Old Orthodox Bishop or Rome or Bishop on 13th March 2013. He will be known by the name Pope Francis I. He is the first ever Jesuit Pope. The Roman Catholic Church was in communion with the Orthodox Church until the great schism. [...]

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Mor Yacoub Edward Consecrated Archbishop of Guatemala to foster 800000 Roman Catholic converts to Syriac Orthodox Church

March 9, 2013 Featured News

9/3/13 Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch and All East Beirut: Mor Yacoub Edward Consecrated as New Archbishop of Patriarchal Vicariate of Guatemala. His Holiness Moran Mor Ignatius Zakka I Iwas consecrated Very Rev. Rabban Edward as the Archbishop of Patriarchal Vicariate of Guatemala in the name “MOR YACOUB” on 06th March 2013 at the Monastery [...]

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Christians in Libya Face Safety Concerns

February 19, 2013 News

Jamie Dettmer - 18/2/13 TRIPOLI — Questions of safety for Christians are being raised in Libya. Three communities of Roman Catholic nuns are leaving the country because of threats from radical Islamists. And four missionaries were arrested over the weekend for distributing religious literature. Ash Wednesday at St. Francis, a Roman Catholic church in central Tripoli, [...]

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Roman Catholic Nun Received into Orthodox Church

February 9, 2013 Featured News

Russian Orthodox Church of Pakistan OCP News Service 9/2/13 Sindh-Hyderabad: A Roman Catholic nun, Mother Philomena was recently received into the Orthodox Church by Father Adrian, the Orthodox Mission Director of Pakistan and by Fr Antony the Russian Orthodox priest in Hyderabad. Source: OCP News Service

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Assembly of Bishops issues statement on 40th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade

February 3, 2013 Featured News

On Monday, January 21, 2013, the Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops of North and Central America issued a statement marking the 40th Anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision. At the end of the statement the “Agreed Statement” issued in 1974 by the Orthodox-Roman Catholic Bilateral Consultation in the United States is republished. The text [...]

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From Roman Catholic to Orthodox

January 29, 2013 Featured News

Thom Nickels Philadelphia-based author/journalist – 29/1/13 The word ‘orthodoxy’ can conjure up foul associations. There’s Bertrand Russell’s famous quote, “Orthodoxy is the grave of intelligence,” which covers any sort of rigid or right thinking at the expense of creative thought. Orthodoxy (lower case) implies a strict adherence to tradition against which Modernism doesn’t stand a [...]

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Greek Orthodox leaders seek resolution from legislators on Turkey

January 29, 2013 News

29/1/13 – Patrick Wade CHAMPAIGN — Greek Orthodox church leaders are hoping state legislators will pass a resolution calling on Turkish officials to “loosen up on their secular stronghold” and allow for more religious freedom abroad. State Sen. Mike Frerichs, D-Champaign, and Mayor Don Gerard on Sunday joined Bishop Demetrios of Mokissos, chancellor of the [...]

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New York’s Christian leaders hosted in Armenian cathedral

December 11, 2012 News

11/12/12 NEW YORK - Archbishop Khajag Barsamian, Primate of the Diocese of the Armenian Church of America (Eastern), hosted an ecumenical gathering at the Diocesan Center in honor of the elevation of Archbishop Timothy Dolan, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of New York, to the rank of Cardinal. Leaders of the Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and Oriental [...]

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OCP Executive Council request IMOC to withdraw from Orthodox – Roman Catholic Dialogue

December 3, 2012 Featured News

Read the Petition OCP News Service – 03/12/2012 Indian/Global: The Secretary of Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE Society, George Alexander on behalf of the Executive Council made an official request to Catholicos Baselius Marthoma Paulouse II Primate of the Indian Malankara Orthodox Church, the Holy Episcopal Synod members, to withdraw from the Oriental Orthodox – Roman Catholic dialogue [...]

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Roman Catholic Church contradicts on the Status of Self Proclaimed Catholicos and Malankara Metropolitan

November 26, 2012 Featured News

OCP News Service -26/11/2012 India/Global: Roman Catholic Church contradicts on the Status of Self Proclaimed Catholicos and Malankara Metropolitan. The title given by Vatican Website(http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/audiences/2012/documents/hf_ben-xvi_aud_20121024_en.html) to Baselius Cleemis is “H.B. BASELIOS CLEEMIS THOTTUNKAL, Major Archbishop of Trivandrum for Syro-Malankaras” which is the original title of the Primate of the Malanakra Catholic Rite. Catholic Bishops Conference of [...]

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Polish Roman Catholic Professor Joins Orthodox Church

October 26, 2012 Featured News

  26/10/2012 Press announcement by the Holy Monastery of the Pantocrator dated 13/9/2012 Baptismal reception into the Orthodox Church of Polish Academic Professor Paweł P. Wróblewski. By the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, «…in every nation whoever fears Him and works righteousness is accepted by Him.» (Acts 10:34); it was by His condescension that [...]

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Vatican Continues to bless ‘Uniatism and Sheep Stealing’ in India

October 25, 2012 Featured News

Self Proclaimed Catholicos & Malankara Metropolitan   George Alexander & Kisha D Dorado Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE 25/10/201 Vatican elevates Self Proclaimed Catholics of the Syro-Malankara Catholic Rite as Cardinal. Read: Is The Catholicate Of The Romo-Syrians In India Canonically Genuine Or Bogus? Read: Indian Orthodox Church Sends Letter to Pope, Major Archbishop and Roman Catholic Prelates [...]

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Hear about the 500,000-member Orthodox Church in Guatemala!

October 23, 2012 Featured News

23/10/2012 St. Vladimir’s Seminary Did you know that there are 338 Orthodox churches in Guatemala, with 500,000 faithful and catechumens? Did you know that a former UN Ambassador is now a priest in that community? Did you know that hundreds of Latin Americans continue to leave the Roman Catholic Church on a daily basis, seeking [...]

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Armenian Catholicos receives Roman Catholic Church official

September 24, 2012 News

24/9/2012 ETCHMIADZIN. – The Catholicos of All Armenians Karekin II on Sunday received His Eminence Cardinal Kurt Koch, President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity. The Catholicos gave a high assessment to the ties and cooperation between the Armenian Apostolic and the Roman Catholic churches. He noted that, by way of such …

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Interfaith Forum “Living together is the Future” held in Sarajevo completes its work

September 14, 2012 News

On 11 September 2012, the Interfaith Forum “Living together is the Future”, held in Sarajevo, completed its work. The Forum, organized by the Community of Sant’Egidio together with the Serbian Orthodox Church, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Vrhbosna-Sarajevo, and Islamic and Jewish Communities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, gathered several hundreds of representatives of various religions from [...]

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Christians, Muslims, Jews call for peace from Sarajevo

September 11, 2012 Featured News

AFP 10/9/2012 SARAJEVO, Sept 10 – Leaders of Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Muslim and Jewish communities Sunday made a pressing call for peace from Bosnia which was the scene of the worst atrocities committed in Europe since World War II. Stressing the “commitment of Serb people to the strengthening of peace” Serb Orthodox Church Patriarch Irinej [...]

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Roman Catholic church upsets group

August 24, 2012 News

Carol Sanders 24/8/2012 A human rights group is disappointed in Winnipeg’s Roman Catholic Church for allowing a regime notorious for religious persecution to rent a parish hall for a “festival.” “I feel sad at the way they handled the situation,” said Bereket Yohannes, a member of the Eritrean-Canadian Human Rights Group of Manitoba. Yohannes said [...]

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Russian patriarch Kirill to visit Poland in August

July 16, 2012 News

The Associated Press 16/7/2012 WARSAW, Poland — Polish Catholic church is preparing to welcome the head of the Russian Orthodox Church to Poland in August, a visit church leaders describe as a crucial step toward healing historic wounds between Russians and Poles. The two Slavic nations have been divided for centuries by religion, with Poles [...]

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Orthodox Metropolitan Violate Holy Cannons – Reports (Updated)

May 18, 2012 Featured News
Orthodox Metropolitan Augustine receiving a blessing with sacramental oil from a Roman Catholic prelate. This is a gross violation of the Holy Canons of the Orthodox Church.

18/5/2012 It has been reported by various sources that Orthodox Metropolitan Augustine of Germany of the Ecumenical Patriarchate has violated the holy cannons of the Orthodox Church by receiving sacramental oil from a Roman Catholic prelate as well taking part in non-orthodox liturgical services during an ecumenical event held on 5th may 2012, at Trier, [...]

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Roman Catholic Church in Holy Land plans switch to Orthodox calendar for Easter

April 5, 2012 News

4/4/2012 The Catholic churches of the Holy Land plan to observe Easter according to the Orthodox calendar, the head of the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land has announced. The change could come as early as next year. Father Pierbattista Pizzabella explained that the change was prompted by a desire to strengthen ecumenical ties between [...]

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Jerusalem Readies itself for Easter

March 28, 2012 Featured News
Good Friday procession in Jerusalem; photo courtesy Travelujah

28/3/2012 Visit Travelujah website for all Holy land tour solutions Christians visiting the Holy Land in the spring sometimes fail to appreciate the link between Passover and Easter: Jesus came to Jerusalem in April circa 34, making his triumphal entry on the Sunday of the last fateful week of his life, in order to offer [...]

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Turkey’s Armenian Deputy Patriarch attends Vatican’s former rep. funeral

March 26, 2012 News

26/3/2012 PanARMENIAN.Net – According to Sunday’s Zaman, leaders and representatives of Turkey’s various religious communities attended the funeral of Monsignor Georges Marovitch, a former Vatican diplomatic official in Turkey, who passed away on March 22 morning at the age of 81. Roman Catholic Bishop Louis-Armel Pelâtre, the apostolic vicar of Istanbul, as well as Turkey’s [...]

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Roman Catholics will Penetrate into Orthodox Christian Hubs in Serbia

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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Roman Catholic, Orthodox leaders reach accord on reconciliation between Poland and Russia

March 19, 2012 News

16/3/2012 Representatives of the Roman Catholic Church and the Russian have reached agreement on a joint statement calling for reconciliation between the people of Russia and Poland: a historic agreement on an issue that has caused enormous friction between the two countries and the two churches. The joint statement, which is the product of two [...]

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