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Pope Tawadros II begins historic visit to Vatican

May 9, 2013 Featured News

Ahram Online – 9/5/13 Leader of Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox Church arrives in Rome for first such visit in 40 years. Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II has arrived in Rome to begin a historic visit to the Vatican. The pope will meet with his Catholic counterpart, the recently elected Pope Francis, on Friday. The visit will [...]

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Russian Orthodox tell Archbishop of Canterbury: ordain women bishops and you can forget about unity

March 27, 2013 Featured News

  Damian Thompson - 27/3/13 There’s a quaint Anglican concept of the universal Church known as the “branch theory”. This claims that there are three main branches to apostolic Christianity: Roman, Orthodox and Anglican. It’s much favoured by Church of England clerics who aren’t very keen on “Romans”, as they call Catholics, and convey their anti-Papist [...]

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2013 Catechetical Homily of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew for the beginning of Great Lent

March 23, 2013 Featured News

+ B A R T H O L O M E W By the Mercy of God Archbishop of Constantinople-New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch 21/3/13 To the Plenitude of the Church Grace and Peace be with you from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ together with our Prayer, Blessing and Forgiveness Beloved brothers and sisters, [...]

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The Extraordinary Historical Significance of His All-Holiness’ Presence at Pope Francis’ Installation as Bishop of Rome

March 20, 2013 Featured News

New York, NY -3/19/2013 Amid the crush of news reports in the past month that followed Pope Benedict’s unprecedented resignation from the papacy, one of the most intriguing was the decision by His All-Holiness, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, to attend Pope Francis’ installation as Bishop of Rome.  The occasion is being presented in the media as [...]

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Orthodox flock of Rome: hopes are high for the new Pope

March 17, 2013 News

Milena Faustova 17/3/13 The Russian Orthodox parish in Rome has high hopes for cooperation and dialogue with the new Pope Francis, Father Antoni Sevruk, rector of the Russian Orthodox Church of Saint Catherine the Great Martyr in Rome, told the Voice of Russia. The Saint Catherine Church at the Russian Embassy is a ten-minute walk [...]

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For the first time since the Great Schism, ecumenical patriarch to attend pope’s inaugural Mass

March 15, 2013 Featured News

15/3/13 The metropolitans of Argentina and Italy will accompany Bartholomew. Moscow Patriarchate hopes in closer cooperation with Rome but excludes for now a meeting between Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill. Istanbul (AsiaNews) – The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew I will attend Pope Francis’s inaugural Mass. The Ecumenical Patriarchate Press Office informed AsiaNews about the decision, noting [...]

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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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Religious summit to unite Middle East’s Christians

March 8, 2013 News

The Daily Star 8/3/13 BEIRUT: A religious summit between Catholic and Orthodox patriarchs of the Middle East will take place in the next few months, Maronite Patriarch Beshara Rai announced Wednesday. Speaking to the Fides Agency in Rome, Rai said that preparations were under way to hold an “important summit” that would address the challenges facing Christians in the [...]

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Cardinal’s resignation raises Vatican conspiracy theories

February 26, 2013 Featured News

JOHN ALLEMANG The Globe and Mail 26/2/13 Questions are being raised about backroom tactics at the Vatican after Britain’s highest-ranking cleric, in the wake of abuse allegations, decided not to attend the conclave to elect the next pope. Cardinal Keith O’Brien resigned his post as Archbishop of Edinburgh, it was announced on Monday, a day [...]

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The Orthodox Saint Valentine

February 14, 2013 Featured News

14/2/13 The ancient martyrology of the Church of Rome marks February 14th as the remembrance of “the martyr Valentine, presbyter of Rome” (Valentinus means “vigorous” in Latin). Unfortunately the historical data for the Saint is incomplete. The Martyrdom of the Saint in Rome Saint Valentine lived in Rome in the third century and was a [...]

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The Old Orthodox Bishop of Rome Announces Resignation

February 12, 2013 Featured News

12/2/13 Vatican/Global: The Old Orthodox Bishop or Rome or Bishop of Rome Pope Benedict XVI has announced his resignation over aging and declining health. His resignation will take place on 28th of February 2013. He is the first ever Pope to resign 600 years. The Roman Catholic Church was in communion with the Orthodox Church [...]

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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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Bulgaria’s President and Minister of Education to Save Bulgarian Church in Rome

January 12, 2013 News

12/1/13 (Sofia, Jan 9) – Bulgaria’s President, Rossen Plevneliev and minister of education, Sergey Ignatov, will save the Bulgarian church in Rome. “Bulgaria’s Head of State is quite worried with what is happening in the presented by late Pope John II church Santi Vincenzo e Anastasio a Trevi to the Bulgarian community in Rome. Due [...]

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Patronal Feast of the Ecumenical Patriarchate

December 4, 2012 News

On Friday, November 30, 2012, His All-Holiness presided over the Divine Liturgy at the Patriarchal Church of St. George for the celebration of the Patronal Feast of the Ecumenical Patriarchate on the occasion of the Feast of St. Andrew, First-Called of the Apostles. Other celebrant hierarchs included Metropolitans Geron Athanasios of Chalcedon, Apostolos of Derkoi, [...]

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16000 Bulgarians to Enjoy Own Church in Italy’s Bari

September 30, 2012 News

  30/9/2012 The Bulgarian community in the southern Italian city of Bari, which consists of 16 000 people, will have a Bulgarian Orthodox temple of its own, the Bulgarian Culture Ministry announced. The news emerged Friday after Bulgarian Culture Minister Vezhdi Rashidov met with Bari Mayor Michele Emiliano. Rome-based Bulgarian priest archimandrite Kliment Bobchev, the [...]

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FAO Director-General meets Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople

September 16, 2012 News

  16/9/2012 Report by India Education bureau; Rome: FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva has met with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, spiritual leader of the Orthodox Christian Church, as part of an ongoing effort to enlist the world’s major religions more closely in the fight against hunger. Patriarch Bartholomew told Graziano da Silva he [...]

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Christianity under threat in Sarajevo

September 13, 2012 Featured News

13/9/2012 SARAJEVO: The head of the Serbian Orthodox Church has warned that Christianity was under threat in Sarajevo, as Muslim and Christian clerics argued during talks meant to promote reconciliation. “Christianity is very threatened here,” Patriarch Irinej said in an interview with Bosnian Serb public television during his visit to Sarajevo, adding the Serb population [...]

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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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Fides reports rebel Islamists killing Christians in Syria

July 23, 2012 News

23/7/2012 (AGI) Rome – The Fides news agency has reported on groups of rebel extremist Islamists “terrorising people in Damascus” especially Chrstians and Iraqi refugees. Fides has also reported the murder of an entire Christian family by militiamen from the “Islam Brigade”, “Liwa al-Islam”, the same group that claimed responsibility for the attack on Bashar [...]

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From Catholic To Orthodox

May 11, 2012 Featured News
In the Orthodox cathedral of Helsinki- Finland. Laying the groundwork with a monk.

By Thom Nickels Special to the Weekly Press 9/5/2012 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 [...]

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Devotional column: The newest old church in Alpine

March 10, 2012 News

By John Filipovich Columnist 8/3/2012 Some readers may have driven down Gallego Avenue and noticed the church with the red roof. We’d like to introduce ourselves. We are the Orthodox Church. Our local parish is small, but the Orthodox Church is the second-largest body in Christendom with approximately 300 million members worldwide, about 6 million [...]

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The Orthodox Saint Valentine

February 14, 2012 Featured News

14/2/2012 The ancient martyrology of the Church of Rome marks February 14th as the remembrance of “the martyr Valentine, presbyter of Rome” (Valentinus means “vigorous” in Latin). Unfortunately the historical data for the saint is incomplete. The Martyrdom of the Saint in Rome Saint Valentine lived in Rome in the third century and was a [...]

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2011 Christmas Encyclical of His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew

December 23, 2011 Featured News

Istanbul, Turkey 12/20/2011 + B A R T H O L O M E W By the Mercy of God Archbishop of Constantinople-New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch To the Plenitude of the Church Grace, Peace and Mercy from our Savior Born in Bethlehem “Christ is born again and the Angels sing once more: ‘Glory to [...]

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Events include Bishop, celebration and hope

November 17, 2011 News

17/11/2011 The Romanian Orthodox Church in Norwich is pleased to invite you to celebrate together with us the feast of Saint Clement of Rome, the patron saint of the church named in his memory, where we presently worship. Divine Liturgy will take place on Sunday November 20, from 10am to 12 noon, followed by a [...]

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Discovery of world’s earliest Christian engravings reveals religion’s ties to mysterious Pagan Sect

October 4, 2011 News
Vault: The ancient stone bearing the earliest recorded Christian writing is housed at the Capitoline Museums in Rome

By GAVIN ALLEN 4/10/2011 The discovery of the world’s earliest Christian engraving has thrown light on the life of a pagan sect and its relationship with the more orthodox religion. Researchers at the Capitaline Museums in Rome believe they have finally translated and dated NCE 156, an inscription carved into stone in Greek. It is [...]

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