Varghese John Thottapuzha - OCP Associate 31/12/12 It is interesting to note that the present Popes of the Coptic Orthodox Church and Greek Orthodox Church of Alexandria share the same names. In fact, this aspect was highlighted in a fraternal way in the congratulatory note of the latter to the former at the time of the enthronement ...
On 26 December 2012, the Holy Synod continued its sessions at the Patriarchal and Synodal residence in St Daniel’s Monastery in Moscow under the chairmanship of the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church. Approved for reading at the services and for prayers at home were the texts of the Akathistos hymn to the “Queen of All” ...
31/12/12 - The British Orthodox Church This year Abba Seraphim celebrated the Nativity Feast on Christmas Eve (24 December) at the Chatham Church. In his address Abba Seraphim spoke of the angelic proclamation of Peace on Earth, which he noted has always been elusive, “It seems almost alien to the natural condition of man and since the ...
OCA - 30/12/12 The national Junior Department of the Fellowship of Orthodox Christians in America [FOCA] extends a heartfelt “thank you” to one and all who donated toys and gift cards to brighten the season for children whose families continue to suffer as a result of November’s Superstorm Sandy. In addition to hundreds of toys, which were ...
31/12/12 The Enthronement of His Beatitude, Metropolitan Tikhon as Primate of the Orthodox Church in America will be celebrated at Saint Nicholas Cathedral, Washington, DC, on the weekend of January 26-27, 2013. On Saturday, January 26, the Vigil will be celebrated at 5:00 p.m. On Sunday, January 27, the Divine Liturgy, followed by the Rite of Enthronement, will ...
31/12/12 Dear All I Take this opportunity to wish you all a wonderful, blessed and prosperous new year.May God shower abundance of blessings upon you and your love ones. May God have great mercy upon us. Thanking you all for the kind support, love and care. Requesting your prayers and wishing you all the very best in life ...
Rev. Fr. Alexander J. Kurien Washington, D.C. OCP News Service 31/12/1/2 NEW YEAR MESSAGE FROM REV FR ALEXANDER J KURIEN WISHING YOU ALL A BLESSED AND PEACEFUL NEW YEAR Are you Ready to Face the Future, regardless of how dark things look? The days of 2012 were in many ways darkening ones - crime, immorality, corruption, and deadly ...
30/12/12 OCP News Service India: Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE Society Executive council has condemned the brutal gang-rape incident in Delhi which resulted in the death of a young girl. OCP Executive Council observed 10 minutes of silence remembering the brave girl who passed away last day at Singapore hospital. Chairman K C Jacob said that the event is a ...
30/12/12 LONG BEACH, Calif. and PTGHUNK, Armenia — Zuhrab and Seta Ghazarian, the founders of the Armenian Lighthouse Charitable Foundation (ALCF), the organization formerly known as Paros “Lighthouse” Charitable Foundation, funded and recently completed the construction of a chapel adjacent to the ALCF center. The chapel was consecrated and named Soorp Mariam Asdvadzadzin (St. Mary Church). ...
BY CATHERINE YESAYAN -30/12/12 Asbarez contributor Catherine Yesayan, who is the one of two authors of the “Community Links” column spent the summer in Armenia. Throughout her trip, she reported on the interesting places she visited and people she met along her journey. Yesayan had the opportunity to experience two traditional Armenian holidays—Vardavar, the feast of ...
Moscow, December 29, Interfax - Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia is to visit Greece, Mount Athos and the Baltic States next year. "Early in June the Patriarch plans to visit Greece. Visiting the Greek Orthodox Church he will return the Archbishop Ieronymos' of Athens and All Greece visit to Russia in 2012. The Primate ...
Rafal Rogoza / The Jersey JournalThe Jersey Journal- 29/12/12 Dozens congregated at an Ethiopian Orthodox Church in Jersey City this morning to worship and celebrate the Feast of Saint Gabriel. Roughly 50 worshippers of the Bisrate Gebriel Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church held mass at 7 a.m. at the Sacred Heart Church at 214 Martin Luther King Drive ...
30/12/12 WHEN DIVINITY MEETS HUMANITY We hear the Christmas story every year during the months of December and January. What we hear is the story of purely mundane things. We hear about a couple looking for a lodge in an emergency situation; the young woman was in her full term of pregnancy and was about to give ...
By Michael Adel -29/12/12 Amidst Egypt's political turmoil and the recent approval of the country's draft constitution, millions of Christians across Egypt are preparing to celebrate Christmas as usual this year under the shadow of Islamist rule. Egypt's churches have invited all the Copts to attend the celebrations as usual, and Pope Tawadros II, the head of ...
27/12/12 The Bulgarian Orthodox Church marks Thursday the Day of Saint Stephen, the first Christian martyr and first archdeacon in the Jerusalem Community Church. The community church accepted people from all social circles and the rich supported the church while Stephen designated the activity and the vocation of each member. It is believed that this has been the ...
Guy McCarthy - 28/12/12 Items listed as stolen from the church's altar room on Dec. 22 include ornate metal crosses and chalices. Los Angeles police are asking for the public's help investigating the reported theft of numerous religious artifacts, including ornate metal crosses and chalices, from the Holy Transfiguration Russian Orthodox Church in Hollywood. A total of 37 artifacts ...
28/12/12 The Orthodox Church has formed a new entity covering the predominantly Muslim North Caucasus regions of Chechnya, Ingushetia and Dagestan. The Makhachkala Eparchy was set up by the Holy Synod, the church's supreme governing body, church spokesman Vladimir Legoida said late Wednesday, after the two-day session ended, Interfax reported. The new eparchy, which will be cut out ...
St Marys Church Homs St. Mary’s Church in Homs before the war St Mary's Church in Dair Al-Zor, Syria St. Thomas Church in Ras Al-Ayn A mosque nearby Ras Al-Ayn Burnt office in Qatf Al-Zahour Private School in Ras Al-Ayn Burnt office in Qatf Al-Zahour Private School in Ras Al-Ayn Qatf Al-Zahour Private School in Ras Al-Ayn Food basket Project Archbishop Matta Roham leading ...
Margaret Jackson - 27/12/12 AMBROSE JACKSON PRIEST, TEACHER 10-12-1935 — 4-8-2012 TWO funeral services for the Very Reverend Archpriest Ambrose Trevor Jackson, one in Adelaide and the other in rural Victoria, were attended by clergy and parishioners from the Serbian, Greek, Russian, Antiochian and Romanian Orthodox as well as Coptic, Anglican and Catholic churches. The diverse congregations demonstrated ...
David Rap - 27/12/12 The beautiful lowland between the Israel Museum and the neighborhood of Rehavia in Jerusalem is called Emek Hamatzlevah, "The Valley of the Cross." Within the valley is a Greek Orthodox monastery with the same name. The name comes from Christian tradition, which holds that a tree from the valley provided the wood for ...
27/12/12 Even as Christians celebrate the festive season, no one knows the exact time or place or month or year when Jesus of Nazareth was born. This is even more true when one considers that the same Christians do celebrate Christmas on different occasions, with Orthodox observing it in January. In any case, the calendar that is followed ...