Tag: israel
Lent in Jerusalem: The Holy Fire Ceremony
By NICOLE JANSEZIAN, TRAVELUJAH 04/05/2011 For further information on Christian tourism and Holy Land Tours to Israel contact Travelujah. Easter in Israel is essentially centered ... Read More
Greek Orthodox Church Sells Properties to Jewish Group
Patriarch Theophilos III By Hillel Fendel A group of Jewish businessmen has purchased “hundreds of dunams [quarter-acres]” of land from the Greek Orthodox Church. The ... Read More
A Monk in Confinement, Waiting to Reclaim a Title
Monk Irenaeus (Former Patriarch of Jerusalem) By ISABEL KERSHNER 7/3/2011 Jerusalem Journal New York Times JERUSALEM — Like a figure in a medieval drama, the ... Read More
Egypt’s uprising stirs fears of persecution of minority Coptic Christians
Nabila Rizkalla and other parishioners at St. Read More
Byzantine church discovered near Jerusalem may be burial place of prophet Zechariah
2/2/2011 Archaeologists yesterday presented an ancient church they have discovered outside Jerusalem that may contain the burial place of the biblical prophet Zechariah. The Byzantine ... Read More
Pilgrims celebrate Feast of the Epiphany on Jordan River
By RON FRIEDMAN 01/19/2011 The ceremony, which celebrates Jesus’s baptism by St. John the Baptist, draws Orthodox Christian pilgrims from around Israel and the world. ... Read More
Meteorologists fail to explain descending of the cloud on supposed place of the Lord’s Transfiguration
Moscow, January 11, Interfax – Science cannot explain a mystery of the cloud, that every year descends on the Mount Tabor where, according to the ... Read More
Ousted Patriarch behind locked doors in Jerusalem
By JOSH LEDERMAN The Associated Press 6/1/2011 JERUSALEM — Six years ago, Irineos I was the patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church of Jerusalem with ... Read More
Arab press angered by Coptic Church Blast
3/1/2011 The Egyptian press has reacted angrily to the suicide bombing that targeted a Coptic church in Alexandria on New Year’s Day, with several papers ... Read More