Category: NY
Patriarch Hazim: AL Sanctions against Syria Unprecedented, Syrians Independent for Their Livelihood
1/12/2011 Patriarch Ignatius IV Hazim of Antioch and All the East for Greek Orthodox stressed Wednesday that the Arab League (AL) sanctions on Syria will ... Read More
Russia will save Orthodoxy on Earth, Rector of Athos Monastery Believes
Moscow, November 29, Interfax – Rector of the Vatopedi Monastery Archimandrite Yefrem, who accompanied the Belt of the Mother of God from the convent to ... Read More
Syria’s Christians Side with Assad Out of Fear
By Bastian Berbner 30/11/2011 Many of Syria’s 2.5 million Christians are supporting President Bashar Assad amidst ongoing protests in the country. They prefer a brutal ... Read More
Portable Churches Go On Sale In Serbia
One of the Mancic family's portable churches (photo courtesy of www.danas.rs) 30/11/2011 A family in Serbia is commercializing a portable mini-church that it can deliver ... Read More
Gay Gathering Sparks Row Between Ethiopia Church and State
Tadias Voice of America 30/11/2011 Anti-Gay Sentiment Flares in Ethiopia as Addis Ababa Preps for AIDS Conference “A meeting organised by an African gay lobby ... Read More
Resurrected: believers breathe new life into sacred buildings
Alena Legostaeva 30/11/2011 The restoration of many religious buildings in Moscow has provided Muscovites and visitors to the city – both religious and secular – ... Read More
At Least 45 Christians Killed in Plateau State, Nigeria
28/11/2011 Ethnic Fulanis crying ‘Allahu akbar!’ attack church, communities. BARKIN LADI, Nigeria, November 28 (CDN) — Fulani Muslim herdsmen along with Muslim soldiers have killed ... Read More
Orthodox Health Plan announces open enrollment period through December 30
SYOSSET, NY [OCA] 29/11/2011 CLICK TO VISIT OHP WEBSITE HERE In a memo issued recently by Priest Constantine L. Sitaras, Chairperson of the Joint Orthodox ... Read More
The Economical Crisis Is The Result Of Greed
29/11/2011 The faithful who attended the Divine Liturgy could listen to the Gospel fragment on the rich ruler, a two millennia old text, but very ... Read More
Greek Patriarch of Alexandria Pays Historic Visit to St. Catherine Monastery at Mount Sinai
Stella Tsolakidou 28/11/2011 76 years after the then Patriarch of Alexandria and all Africa His Beatitude Meletios Metaxakis had visited the historic Holy Monastery of ... Read More