Nadia Bazuk (Editor – Russian and Ukranian Orthodox Affairs) OCP News Service- 22/2/2020 The Orthodox Church of Ukraine and the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church honor the veterans of the Waffen-SS Galizien (Halychyna) Division and the Ukrainian Nachtigall Battalion of the German Abwehr. World War II ended almost 75 years ago. The world reviewed the results of this ...
SVOTS - 22/2/2020 [SVOTS Communications / YONKERS, NY] Conferences aimed at forming and strengthening Orthodox Christian leaders are being held over the coming months in four cities across the U.S. These Servant Leadership Retreats are an initiative of The Orthodox Christian Leadership Initiative (OCLI), in partnership with St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary (SVOTS). The OCLI is developing an Intensive Program in Servant Leadership for ...
OCP News Service - 22/1/2020 UAE: The Ethiopian Orthodox community celebrated the feast of Tabernacle at the St. Gregorios Malankara Orthodox Church (Indian Orthodox Malankara Church), Fujairah, United Arab Amirates. Fr. K. M. Jacob of the Banglore Diocese and the Fujairah parish members received the Ethiopian Orthodox community. Source: OCP News Service
Tufenkian Foundation - 20/2/2020 18 Feb 2019. Artik, Armenia. A new daycare center by the “Family and Community” NGO was officially inaugurated today in the town of Artik in Shirak province. The new center, renovated by the Tufenkian Foundation, will provide daycare for the children coming from vulnerable families. Artik’s center became the fifth hub in ...
OCP News Service - 20/2/2020 Global: Restoring British Orthodoxy (Vol 1 and Vol II), new books by Patriarch Abba Seraphim (Primate of the British Orthodox Church is now available for purchase. Purchase Vol I Purchase Vol II Restoring British Orthodoxy. Vol 1: Sowing the Seed Although times have changed and circumstances with them, the sense of mission of restoring the ...
OCP News Service - Menetasnot Desta – (Chief Administrator - OCP Amharic Service) - 20/2/2020 Addis Abab-Ethiopia: The emergency meeting of the holy synod of the Ethiopian Church discussed various key topics of interest. The holy synod will submit charges against three media agencies namely OBN, OMN, LTV to the Ethiopian broadcasting authority for various reasons. The ...
The Orthodox Defence - 19/2/2020 A documentary on Orthodox Christianity in Congo Source:
Basilica News Agency - 18/2/2020 The Archbishop of Tirana, Durres and All Albania, His Beatitude Anastasios, was honored on Friday in Aachen, Germany with the international award Klaus Hemmerle for 2020, for his contribution to the rapprochement and peaceful coexistence of communities with different cultural and religious backgrounds. The awards ceremony was held at the emblematic Aachen ...
Basilica News Agency - 18/2/2020 Romfilatelia introduced into circulation on Friday, February 14, a new postage stamp issue entitled 100 years since the repose of Saint Nectarios of Aegina. Saint Nectarios was born in 1846, in the Thracian Silivria (locality near Constantinople), from a poor but god-fearing parents, Dimos and Maria Kefalas receiving the name of Anastasios at baptism. At the age of ...
The Patriarchate of Jerusalem - 18/2/2020 A high-level delegation formally representing the Patriarchate of Jerusalem was commissioned by H.B. Theophilos III, Patriarch of Jerusalem, to meet with His All Holiness Bartholomew, the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, to further explain the importance of the fraternal gathering scheduled to be held in Amman, Jordan later on this month ...
OCP News Service - 18/2/2020 Damascus-Syria: Bishop Armash Nalbandian of Damascus of the Armenian Apostolic Orthodox Church sent a letter to the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad expressing the gratitude of the Syrian-Armenian Community for the Syrian Parliament's official adoption of the resolution to recognize the Armenian genocide. Last week, the Parliament of the Syrian Arab Republic (People's ...
Menetasnot Desta – Chief Administrator of the OCP Amharic Service - 18/2/2020 Addis Ababa- Ethiopia: The leadership of the United Arab Emirates has graciously granted permission to construct the first-ever Ethiopian Orthodox Church in the country. The official announcement was issued by the Ethiopian Prime Minister Dr. Abyi Ahmed on 14th February 2020 during his official ...
Church of Serbia - 18/2/2020 His Holiness Serbian Patriarch Irinej received His Eminence Metropolitan Ilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, at the Serbian Patriarchate in Belgrade on February 17, 2020. The reception was attended by members of the Holy Synod of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church: Their Graces Bishops ...
Church of Serbia - 18/2/2020 President of the Republic of Serbia Aleksandar Vučić awarded decorations to deserving individuals and institutions on the occasion of the National Day of Serbia. The decorated are meritorious individuals, institutions and associations in the fields of culture, medicine, business, sports, science, diplomacy. President of the Republic of Serbia Aleksandar Vučić congratulated the ...
The Official Website of the Synod of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia - 18/2/2020 Spas TV reports on the Pan-European Orthodox Liturgical Music Conference at Nativity of the Mother of God Cathedral in London On January 23-26, 2020, with the blessing of His Eminence Metropolitan Hilarion of Eastern America and New York, First ...
Nadia Bazuk (Editor – Russian and Ukranian Orthodox Affairs) OCP News Service- 15/2/2020 2020 began with the visit of Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis to the US and will be marked by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew’s historic visit to America. Within two months, there also took place a meeting of Geoffrey R. Pyatt and Deputy Minister of ...
Saint Herman Press - 14/2/2020 In this issue: Chosen by God for His People - Metropolitan Onuphry of Kyiv and All Ukraine by Nun Cornelia (Rees) This double issue of The Orthodox Word features an article by Nun Cornelia (Rees), editor of the well-known OrthoChristian.com website, on the current metropolitan of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, His Eminence Onuphry ...
28 Jun NGO - 14/2/2020 We couldn't believe this story was true and we can't begin to comprehend how this can happen in a civilized country but, as confirmed by RTS, in Novi Kozjak six children live without their parents. Their mother abandoned them and their father is in prison. They are from three to 16 ...
OCP News Service - 14/2/2020 "The parliament condemns and recognizes the genocide committed against the Armenians by the Ottoman state at the start of the twentieth century". Damascus: The Parliament of the Syrian Arab Republic has recognized the intentional and brutal killing of the 1.5 million Armenians by the Ottoman Turks. The US Senate Passes Resolution Recognising the ...
AINA - 14/2/2020 (AINA) -- Several news agencies in Iran have published a story claiming that Assyrians are "indebted to General Soleimani" for his help in securing the release of Assyrians captured in Syria by ISIS in 2015. The Fars News Agency (FNA) has a story with the headline Senior MP: Assyrian Society Indebted to General ...
SVOTS - 14/2/2020 Hieromartyr Grigol Peradze of Georgia (1889-1942) was a profoundly gifted theologian, historian, and linguist who used his vast knowledge for the sake of others. He preached and published homilies, worked tirelessly to recover and preserve treasures of Georgian Orthodox history and culture, and imitated the Lord he so fervently pursued in his studies ...