OCP News Service - 23/6/21 Global: Al Jazeera has published an article titled 'In Bangladesh’s empty Armenian church, a lone Hindu worshipper'. Meanwhile, France 24 has featured the same church in an article titled 'One God': Empty Armenian church's last worshipper in Bangladesh'. Both news channels have shed light on the life of Shankar Ghosh who ...
By Dr. Ashraf Ramelah - Voice of the Copts - 14/2/21 Nearly five years ago now, I wrote about a courageous Coptic Christian woman and a brave Coptic Bishop who stood with her and her son in the “Bedouin arbitration” court after she fell victim to a heinous crime.* As justice is never served through the “Bedouin” ...
Raymond Ibrahim - 1/11/2020 Al Kresta of Ave Maria Radio interviewed me yesterday on the situation in France in light of the slaughter of three Christians during an Islamic terror attack on a church in Nice. The roughly 13-minute talk can be heard here. Kresta in the Afternoon’s description of the segment follows: Description: Tensions are rising between Islamic communities ...
Basilica News Agency - Ștefana Totorcea - 27/8/2020 France has become this year the seventh European country where schools have the option to teach the subject of Romanian Language, Culture and Civilization (LCCR). The optional subject will start in three schools from the city of Le Blanc-Mesnil, near Paris. “It is the first step, the first classes to be held in ...
OCP News Service - 19/12/18 Europe: The Ancient Orthodox Church of Malankara has opened new congregations in the Eastern European nation of Georgia and the West European Nation of France. Metropolitan Mathew Mar Timotheus (of the U.K. and Europe Disocese) celebrated Divine Liturgy at one of the Armenian Apostolic Orthodox Churches in Georgia. A few weeks back, ...
ArmenianOrthodoxChurch.org - 23/4/18 Invited by the co-chairmen, HE Metropolitan Emmanuel of France and HE Metropolitan Bishoy of Damiette, of the Joint International Theological Commission of the two families of the Orthodox Church and the Oriental Orthodox Churches, and with the presence, blessings and gracious hospitality of His Holiness Aram I, a working group met in Antelias on ...
Fordham University - 16/3/18 Register here The first 'Oriental Orthodox Studies' Seminar will be held at Fordham University on 10th April Tuesday, 2018. Bishop Kyrillos from the Coptic Church, Archbishop Vahan Hovhanessian Primate of the Armenian Church in France, and Archbishop Dionysius Yuhannon of the Syriac Church will take part in the conference. The Conference is open for public. Source: Fordham ...
AINA - Bar Daisan- 1/2/18 Midyat, Turkey (AINA) -- A Few days ago Petrus Karatay, an Assyrian Chaldean Christian who returned from Paris to Herbol (Turkish Aksu), his acnestral víllage in the Turkish province of Şirnak, was detained for unknown reasons. Writing in a Turkish website, an article titled Even one Chaldean was seen as too much for Şirnak, author Nurcan Baysal ...
Syriac Orthodox Patriarchate - 12/9/17 His Holiness Patriarch Mor Ignatius Aphrem II celebrated the Holy Qurobo at the Basilica in Brussels. During the Holy Qurobo, His Holiness was assisted by their Eminences Mor George Kourieh, Patriarchal Vicar in Belgium, France and Luxemburg, and Mor Maurice Amsih, Archbishop of Jazeera and Euphrates as well as the priests of ...
Syriac Orthodox Patriarchate - 7/9/17 His Holiness Patriarch Mor Ignatius Aphrem II arrives in Brussels and begins his apostolic visit to the Patriarchal Vicariate of Belgium, France and Luxemburg. Choir Concert of the Parishes of Brussels @ Mor Shemoun d’Zayte His Eminence Mor Maurice Amsih, Archbishop of Al-Jazeerah and Euphrates, and Very Rev. Raban Joseph Bali, Patriarchal Secretary ...
Pravoslavie.ru - 25/7/17 The Handbook of the Orthodox Church has been published in France, providing comprehensive information and practical information about Orthodox life in France. It presents a detailed map showing the location of all Orthodox parishes, monasteries, and dioceses in France by region, and provides information about Orthodox bishops (members of the Association of Orthodox Bishops), priests, ...
Orthodox Church - 29/6/17 Apostolic Mission of the Moscow Patriarchate has converted deserted Roman-catholic Monastery into growing Orthodox Christian Seminary. By KTO TV, France. Source:
Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin - 15/5/17 On May 10, His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians; sent a congratulatory message to Mr. Emanuel Macron, newly elected President of the Republic of France. “France has been and continues to be, one of the powerful and foremost countries of the European family, that today ...
Syriac Orthodox Patriarchate - March 2017 On Sunday March 5, 2017, His Eminence Mor George Kourieh was installed Patriarchal Vicar of Belgium, France and Luxembourg at Mor Izozoel Church in Brussels, Belgium. The Rite of the Synthronise (Installation) was conducted by their Eminences Mor Dionysius Issa Gurbuz, Patriarchal Vicar in Switzerland and Austria, Mor Nicolaos Matta Abdelahad, ...
Syriac Orthodox Patriarchate - 10/2/17 Statement Issued by the Syriac Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East Damascus, February 9, 2017 The so-called Rev. Yuhanon Aydin is not a priest in the Syriac Orthodox Church and his so-called ordination is void because it is not done by the proper ecclesiastical authority. Based on Article 70 a) of the Constitution of ...
Aurelian Iftimiu - Basilica News Agency - 19/1/17 Paris, France, 9–12 January 2017 “Take heart; I have overcome the world” (John 16: 33) At the invitation of His Eminence Cardinal André Vingt-Trois, Archbishop of Paris, the 5th European Catholic-Orthodox Forum was held from 9th to 12thJanuary 2017 at the headquarters of the Missions Etrangères of Paris, France. The Forum was ...
Sputniknews - 8/1/17 German police and local newspapers are scratching their heads over a Breitbart story about a mob setting a church alight in their town that bears no resemblance to reality. On January 3, Breitbart reported that "Germany's oldest church" had been set ablaze by a thousand-strong group of men chanting "Allahu akbar," citing the local ...
AINA - 21/12/16 (AINA) -- If 2015 in Europe was most memorable for the hundreds of thousands of refugees who traipsed across the continent, 2016 will be marked by the dramatic increase in terrorist attacks at different European locations.Sadly, these two developments are not unconnected. Most of the refugees who arrived in Europe last year ...
Sputniknews - 20/12/16 After a terrorist attack on a Berlin Christmas market at the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church left at least twelve dead and 48 people injured, social media erupted in a show of support for the victims, and anger at Chancellor Angela Merkel. The attack was chillingly similar to the terrorist attack in Nice, France, earlier ...
Sputniknews - 6/12/16 A French court has ruled that a statue of the Virgin Mary violates the country’s ban of public displays of religious symbols. The statue, located in the small town of Publier, must now be removed from public property. In 2011, Publier, a small town by Lake Geneva with about 6,000 residents, commissioned a marble ...
Sputniknews - 12/6/1 The Russian Orthodox Church leader, Patriarch Kirill, said on Monday that many people he met during the visit to France treated and spoke of Russia in a kind way and understood the importance of the Franco-Russian relations. EPINAY-SOUS-SENART (Sputnik) — On Saturday, the patriarch began his visit to the Russian Orthodox Diocese of Chersonese. ...