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Church of Serbia - 9/7/14 This significant anniversary was marked on the feast day of the Birth of Saint John the Baptist and Forerunner, at ... Read More

New Assyrian Patriarch Meets Community Leaders in Los Angeles

9/7/14 Los Angeles (AINA) -- A delegation of Assyrian organizations and churches met on Sunday with His Holiness Ignatius Aphrem II, Patriarch of the Syriac ... Read More

A Bishop’s Perspective: The Cry of Christians in Iraq

Mar Louis Raphael Sako By Bishop Edward J. Burns http://juneauempire.com July 2014 This past June 15 was the first time in at least 1,600 years ... Read More

Water Shortage Crisis in Assyrian Towns in North Iraq

July 2014 (AINA) -- The water purification plants in Mosul supply water for the city and surrounding areas. After taking control of Mosul on June ... Read More

The Monastery of Frumoasa

Moldovan Orthodox Church - July 2014 The monastery takes it name after a valley in which it was built – the Beautiful Valley (Frumoasa means ... Read More

Holy Relics of Saint Thomas transferred to the Monastery of St Matthew in Nineveh

Monastery of St Matthew Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch and All East 9/7/14 Photos: Rev. Fr. Yousuf Albanna Iraq: Holy Relics of Saint Thomas has ... Read More

Center for Orthodox Cultural Studies signed in Shanghai

The Chinese Orthodox Church - July 2014 Agreement about formation of the Center for Study of Orthodox Culture signed in Shanghai. On June 11, 2014, ... Read More

Indian Orthodox Church in Muscat Launch Charity Projects

Liju Cherian The Indian Orthodox Malankara Church in Muscat - July 2014 Muscat Indian Orthodox parish launches charity project in aid of kidney patients aid ... Read More

Relics of St. Habib Girgis arrives in Australia

OCP News Service - 7/8/14 The Coptic Orthodox Church Melbourne: The holy relics of Archdeacon St. Habib Girgis of the Coptic Orthodox Church has arrived ... Read More

Birth of Saint John the Baptist in Serbian capital

Church of Serbia - July 2014 His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch with the clergy of the Archbishopric of Belgrade-Karlovac served the Holy Hierarchal Liturgy ... Read More

Help preserve: The Christian Heritage of Kosovo and Metohija

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Archbishop Anastasios Consecrated the “Nativity of Christ” Church at Shkodra in Albania

June - July 2014 - The Albanian Orthodox Church Report by Thoma Dhima Photo by Aleksandra Ritsi, Thoma Dhima, ATSH For the Orthodox believers of ... Read More

Metropolitan HIlarion of Eastern America and New York: War always leads to more war

8/7/14 - Epistle of the Council of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia. We, the hierarchs of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside ... Read More

The Gift of Peace and the Spread of Orthodoxy in Northern Uganda

Emily Robertson - OCMC - 8/7/14 In northern Uganda, an area that has been decimated by war and is finally becoming more secure, “every day, ... Read More

A Cancer Center is Attacked In Lugansk, On the Territory of which Stands a Convent

8/7/14 Within the walls of the convent, the sisters daily pray to God for peace, along with constant repetition of the Psalms and the prayer ... Read More

Ukrainian Troops Bomb Church near Luhansk

8/7/14 TEHRAN (FNA)- Ukrainian troops bombed a church in Krasnodon near Luhansk in eastern Ukraine. “The church had been erected in memory of the 80 ... Read More

RUSSIAN PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN’S CONDOLENCES OVER THE DEMISE OF HIS BEATITUDE METROPOLITAN VLADIMIR OF KIEV AND ALL UKRAINE

July 2014 The President of the Russian Federation, Mr. Vladimir Putin, expressed his condolences to His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, members ... Read More

“Zhamanak” Newspaper 100th Anniversary Celebration at the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin

July 2014 On June 28th,, the 100th anniversary celebration of Istanbul’s “Zhamanak” newspaper took place in the Events Hall of the Gevorkian Theological Seminary of ... Read More

Catholicos of All Armenians Receives Attendees to the International Pan-ACYO Governing Board Meeting

July 2014 On July 2nd His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians; met with nearly 60 representatives from chapters of the ... Read More

Metropolitan Volodymyr to be laid to rest at Kiev-Pechersk Lavra

Ukrainian Orthodox Church - 7/6/14 Kiev: Funeral of the the late Metropolitan Volodymyr of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church will be held on Monday, July 7, 2014 after ... Read More

Novak Djokovic the beloved son of Orthodox Church wins Wimbledon 2014