Category: RIA
Syrian rebels destroy Shi’ite site, loot churches: HRW
Alexander Dziadosz | Reuters – 25/1/13 BEIRUT (Reuters) – Rebels in Syria have burned and looted the religious sites of minorities, Human Rights Watch said on Wednesday, ... Read More
One ethnic Armenian kidnapped, another taken prisoner in Syria
25/1/13 Reports from Syria say at least two ethnic Armenians have been kidnapped or taken prisoner amid a continuing civil war in this Middle Eastern ... Read More
Chakhalyan Released from Georgia Prison
25/1/13 AKHALKALAK, Javakhk—Georgian authorities on Thursday released Georgian-Armenian activist Vahagn Chakhalyan, who was serving a 10-year sentence for alleged weapons possession and inciting unrest, his ... Read More
Meeting of patriarchs in Moscow aims to ease tensions
Nino Edilashvili – 25/1/13 Leader of Georgia’s Orthodox Church, Catholicos Patriarch of Georgia Ilia II, visited Moscow to personally receive the Russian Church’s award ... Read More
A new Armenian Patriarch in Jerusalem: what does it mean?
25/1/13 As many church leaders, organisations and individuals have learnt already, Archbishop Nourhan Manoogian was elected earlier today (24 January 2013) as the 97th patriarch ... Read More
Gov’t asks Cyprus church to help secure Russian loan
FAMAGUSTA GAZETTE – 24/1/13 THE CYPRUS government appears to be seeking divine intervention in times of distress and has asked the head of the church ... Read More
Annual Awards of “The Orthodox Church Review”
Pawel Cecha 24/1/13 The Polish Orthodox Church Count Konstanty Bazyli Ostrogski, who was a sixteenth-century aristocrat, one of the greatest minds of his time, and ... Read More
Archbishop Manoogian elected Armenian Patriarch of Jerusalem
Archbishop Nourhan Manoogian – the 97th Armenian Patriarch of Jerusalem 24/1/13 PanARMENIAN.Net – Archbishop Nourhan Manoogian, the current Grand Sacristan of the Armenian Patriarchate of ... Read More
Kosovo’s Serb Christians Face “Rising Attacks” Against Orthodox Sites
Albanian children are playing at the Serbian cemetery in the southern part of Kosovska Mitrovica. Albanian boy trampling by Ilic family tomb, in front of ... Read More