Category: NY

Monastery that gives worldly blessings

obl- February 3, 2012

HEGUMENESS STEFANA By Natalia MALIMON, The Day, Volyn oblast 3/2/2012 NOT FOR NUNS, BUT FOR CHILDREN Thousand years ago the Orthodox Monastery was only a ... Read More

Jerusalem’s Armenians outraged as city approves Jews-only parking lot in Old City

obl- February 3, 2012

By Nir Hasson 3/2/2012 For decades, the parking lot was open to all, though Jewish Quarter residents paid far less for a parking sticker than ... Read More

Inadequate Decision At The European Court Of Human Rights – Sacerdotal Vocation Assimilated To The Trade Union Action

OCP- February 3, 2012

3/2/2012 The Press Office of the Romanian Patriarchate informs us: The Romanian Patriarchate learned with great surprise of the decision in the first analysis of ... Read More

Greek church leader says austerity ‘fatal’

obl- February 3, 2012

By Derek Gatopoulos, Associated Press 2/2/2012 ATHENS, Greece — The leader of Greece’s Orthodox Church on Thursday warned rising poverty in the crisis-hit country could ... Read More

Ethiopian Christians to be deported from Saudi Arabia

obl- February 1, 2012

1/2/2012 Some 35 Ethiopian Christians face deportation from Saudi Arabia for “illicit mingling”, the global rights body Human Rights Watch (HRW) says. Police arrested the ... Read More

De Menil Byzantine Murals Return To Cyprus In February

obl- February 1, 2012

This interior view of the Byzantine Fresco Chapel captures the restored frescoes in place, one in the apse and the second in the dome. The ... Read More

Egypt’s Christians want political party

OCP- February 1, 2012

1/2/2012 Mohamed Abdel Salam CAIRO: A number of Coptic Christian activists said on Tuesday that they agreed on the need for the establishment of an ... Read More

My Trek to Mount Athos

OCP- February 1, 2012

Rev. Malcolm BoydWriter-in-residence, Episcopal diocese of LA 2/2/2012 When TV’s “60 Minutes” visited the legendary Greek monastic island Mount Athos the other night I watched ... Read More