Tag: Africa
Ethiopia: Lalibela’s underground churches
Chris Pritchard 22/2/13 Ruins such as Cambodia's Angkor Wat and Peru's Machu Picchu spark intense speculation about how they came to be built - along ... Read More
Patriarch Theodore of Alexandria visits Russian vessel
On 17 February 2013, His Beatitude Patriarch Theodore of Alexandria, currently on a missionary trip in Africa, celebrated the Divine Liturgy in the Greek church ... Read More
Bishop Panteleimon in Congo
14/2/13 - Patriarcate of Alexandri and All Africa With the paternal prayers and blessing of His Beatitude Theodoros II, Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and ... Read More
Metropolitan Mar Thimothios favours regional centres for Orthodox churches in Africa
Indian Malankara Orthodox Church 01/01/2013 LIJU CHERIAN Metropolitan Mar Thimothios favours regional centres for Orthodox churches in Africa; plans family get together in Kerala on ... Read More
Global religions: Where is the Christian map moving?
Wayne Baker Community Contributor - 26/12/12 Editor's note: This post is part of a series by Dr. Baker on Our Values about core American values. ... Read More
ORDINATION OF HIS GRACE PANTELEIMON BISHOP OF BRAZZAVILLE AND GABON
On Sunday 2nd December 2012, His Beatitude Theodoros II, Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa conducted the ordination of His Grace Panteleimon, Bishop ... Read More
Detailed Planning steps for Electing the 118th Pope of Alexandria and All Africa (Video)
John Anton Cairo OCP Correspondent Detailed Planning steps for Electing the 118th Pope of Alexandria and All Africa Source: OCP News Service Read More
Serbian Patriarch’s Canonical visit to the Patriarchate of Alexandria
12/10/2012 His Holiness Archbishop of Pec, Metropolitan of Belgrade-Karlovac and Serbian Patriarch Irinej, accompanied by Their Graces Bishops, Jovan of Sumadija and Andrej of Remesiana, ... Read More
Combined Oriental Orthodox Mission in the Slums of South Africa (Exclusive)
Fr Thomas Ninan 09/10/2012 OCP News Service Exclusive Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church & Indian Malankara Orthodox Church Port Elizabeth, South Africa: This was my second ... Read More
Ecumenical prayer meeting held in Cairo
OCP News Service Amir Ramzi (OCP Correspondent in Egypt) 06/10/2012 Egypt/Cairo: Heads of Egyptian Christian Churches (Oriental and Eastern Orthodox, Roman Catholic and Evangelical Church) ... Read More
The Son of the Prime Minister of Kenya is Baptized Orthodox
30/7/2012 Patriarchate of Alexandria and All Africa Metropolitan Makarios of Kenya received about a month ago into the Orthodox Church the first-born son of Prime ... Read More
The Most Remote Orthodox Church in the World
By Danai Kanella June 27/2012 Since its founding, Christianity has managed to spread to the whole world, from the biggest cities of the world to ... Read More
An ancient faith in Africa
By Holland Cotter New York Times 28/6/2012 ZION IN AFRICA Ethiopia’s form of Orthodox Christianity has a Jewish ring to it, with its Saturday Sabbath ... Read More
Ethiopia and the 111th Emperor: Haile Selassie I
27/3/2012 A thousand years before Christ the Queen of Sheba, we are told, traveled to Jerusalem where she met King Solomon, married him and had ... Read More
Native Eritrean: ‘I love the USA’
By: Julie Buntjer, Worthington Daily Globe 12/3/2012 Berhane’s life in northeast Africa was surrounded by death WORTHINGTON — The tears flowed freely down Alemitu Berhane’s ... Read More
First Orthodox schools in Sierra Leone inaugurated
AMNA 1/3/2012 Patriarch Theodoros II of Alexandria and All Africa inaugurated the first Christian Orthodox school in the previously civil war-ravaged west African state of ... Read More
As religion grows, so does inter-faith conflicts in Africa
Isaac Mwangi is the immediate former chief sub-editor of the The EastAfrican E-mail:isaacmmwangi@gmail.com 19/2/2012 With both Muslim and Christian populations in sub-Saharan Africa growing rapidly, ... Read More
No Longer an Ancient Curiosity
© RIA Novosti. Ruslan Krivobok 26/01/2012 Andrei Zolotov, Jr. The Thirteenth Apostle was in town earlier this week. The Judge of the Whole Universe. I ... Read More
Forgotten: The stolen people of the Sinai
20/1/2012 Thousands of poor migrants from across Africa are being kidnapped by Bedouin gangs. Refugees from sub-Saharan Africa are being kidnapped, tortured and ransomed for ... Read More
The phenomenal rise of Christians in Africa
By Christophe Le Bec 3/1/2012 Christians in sub-Saharan Africa represent nearly a quarter of the world's Christians, according to a study by the Pew Forum. ... Read More
Help to Children’s home of St. Sava in Africa
28/12/2011 Serbian Church According to many years' tradition that each great holiday representatives of the Serbian Orthodox Church community of St. Sava from Johannesburg visit ... Read More