Orthodoxy in Pictures – November 2010

OCP November 30, 2010 11:12 am 2

30/11/2010

Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem Theofilos III, center, serves a mass for Saint Philoumenos, in the Church of the Greek Orthodox monastery of Jacob’s Well, in the Balata refugee camp near the West Bank city of Nablus, Monday, Nov. 29, 2010. Father Philoumenos was the head of the Church of the Greek Orthodox monastery of Jacob’s Well, where he was found killed on Nov. 16, 1979. He was officially glorified by the Patriarchate of Jerusalem on Nov. 29. 2009.

Christian Orthodox women fill water bottles at the well in the Church of the Greek Orthodox monastery of Jacob’s Well, in the Balata refugee camp near the West Bank city of Nablus, Monday, Nov. 29, 2010. Jacob’s Well, also known as Jacob’s fountain and Well of Sychar, is a deep well hewn of solid rock that has been associated in religious tradition with Biblical Jacob for roughly two millennia.

Egyptian Coptic Christian pilgrims pray at a Coptic Orthodox church in Jerusalem’s Old City on November 15, 2010 as a small number of Egyptian Coptics is given permission by Israeli authorities on annual bases for pilgrimage.

A Georgian musician performs in front of a church during a religious service marking St. George’s Day in the village of Ikalto, 100 km (62 miles) east of the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, on Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2010. The ex-Soviet nation boasts its centuries-long adherence to Orthodox Christianity that helped it survive Muslim invasions.

Drug addicts walk during a religious procession at the Spaso-Preobrazhenskiy rehabilitation centre for drug addicts in the village of Temnolesskaya, some 30 km (19 miles) from Stavropol, November 13, 2010. The centre was founded in 2004 and built by former drug addicts with the support of Orthodox church.

An orthodox nun sells religious artifacts in an illuminated tent as Romanian Christian-Orthodox believers are expected to come to worship the holy relics of Saint Demetrius of Thessaloniki, next to the Romanian Orthodox Patriarchy Cathedral in Bucharest on October 26, 2010.

Orthodox Coptic Christians men cover their faces after Egyptian riot police fired tear gas canisters in Cairo November 24, 2010. Hundreds of Christians clashed with riot police in Cairo in a protest over church construction in which one person was killed and dozens were wounded, witnesses and security sources said.