Category: NY

Senate Introduces Return of Churches Resolution

OCP- March 9, 2012

Senators Scott Brown, Dianne Feinstein and Mark Kirk introduced the resolution demanding Turkey to return stolen church properties. 9/3/2012 Religious Freedom Measure Calls on Turkey ... Read More

Orthodox Believers Stand Up For Jailed Anti-Putin Punk Rockers

obl- March 9, 2012

Sympathizers rallied in support of Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova outside a Moscow police station on March 8. 9/3/2012 Radio Free Europe Public outrage is ... Read More

Special Prayers Requested for Pope Shenouda III

OCP- March 8, 2012

HIS HOLINESS AMBA SHENOUDA III, POPE AND PATRIARCH OF ALEXANDRIA AND OF THE APOSTOLIC SEE OF ALL THE PREDICATION OF SAINT MARK 8/3/2012 Dear Readers ... Read More

Arab Christians need to feel secure

obl- March 7, 2012

A file photo shows Iraqis pray during the Christmas Eve mass at St Joseph’s Chaldean church in Baghdad By Joseph A. Kechichian, Special to Gulf ... Read More

Syrian Christians worry about life after Bashar Assad

obl- March 7, 2012

Greek and Armenian Orthodox Priests pray during a liturgy in January for a Christian boy who was killed in the fighting in the central Syrian ... Read More

Priests to Test World’s Only Paradrop Church

obl- March 7, 2012

7/3/2012 Priests with the Russian Airborne Troops will take a crash course next week to operate the world’s only paradrop Orthodox Christian church, the military ... Read More

First Woman President of Kosovo visits Boston Cathedral, grave of Archbishop Fan Noli

obl- March 7, 2012

Orthodox Church in America 6/3/2012 Accompanied by Archpriest Arthur Liolin, Chancellor of the Albanian Orthodox Archdiocese, and many faithful from Boston’s Saint George Cathedral, Her ... Read More

22 Years Since His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel Was Ordained Hierarch Romanian Church

obl- March 7, 2012

Romanian Church Sunday, 4 March 2012, His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church celebrates 22 years since he was ordained hierarch. His Beatitude ... Read More

Sunday of Orthodoxy solemnly celebrated

OCP- March 7, 2012

5/3/2012 Serbian Church Gnjilane – On the first week of the Great Lent – the Sunday of Orthodoxy – Bishop Teodosije of Raska-Prizren served the ... Read More

Ethiopians Trade Holy Water for AIDS Drugs

OCP- March 6, 2012

7/3/2012 ENTOTO, Ethiopia—Cast out from her family, Tigist arrived at Ethiopia’s Entoto Mountain believing that a spring here welled with holy water that would rid ... Read More