Tag: Asia
Development Meets Theology: Contextualizing non-western Christian missions in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East
Decolonial Subversions - OCP News Service - 22/3/2020 Global: Download the details of the call for the new paper from Decolonial Subversions titled 'Development meets ... Read More
Assyrian Flag Acknowledged By Australian City Council
From left, front: council member Charbel Saliba, Mayor Frank Carbone, council member Ninos Khoshaba. Back: council member Paul Azzo and council member Andrew Rohan. ( ... Read More
Brunei Bans Christmas: Introduces Punishment for Formal Celebrations
http://img.timeinc.net/ Dr Ajesh T Phillip - (OCP Delegate of the Indian Sub-Continent) OCP News Service - 23/12/15 Global: Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah of Brunei has banned ... Read More
India Post to release Stamps on Orthodox Old Seminary – the first School of Theology in Asia
Ajesh T Phillip (OCP Delegate of the Indian Sub-Continent) OCP News Service - 7/3/15 Seminary Website here: India/Kottayam/ Kerala: The Indian Postal Authority will release ... Read More
Trisagion Service for the Victims of the Lethal Tsunami
The icon of “Christ and the Tsunami” was written by Georgia Lelou and donated by the Panhellenic Union of Iconography to the Orthodox Metropolitanate of ... Read More
Patriarch Kirill asks Pakistani president to pardon Christian woman sentenced to death
© ITAR-TASS/Artem Geodakyan TASS. Russian News Agency - November 2014 The Lahore High Court on September 16 upheld the death sentence a court of lower instance ... Read More
Russia shouldn’t make excuses to the USA for building relations of religion, society and state – Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin
Moscow, July 31, Interfax - Russia and other states have the right for their own model of relations between religion and state different from the ... Read More
Patriarch Sako: ‘In 10 Years There Will Only Be a Few Thousand Christians Left in Iraq’
Asia News - 29/4/14 Baghdad -- The Iraqi Chaldean Patriarch, Louis Raphael Sako I, says he is seriously concerned over the continuing decline of Christian presence ... Read More
Metropolitan Amphilohije: “NATO bombings are a continuation of fascism
March/April 2014 In the days when the whole Serbian Church commemorates victims of barbaric bombings during the NATO attack of Yugoslavia in 1999, Metropolitan Amphilohije ... Read More
Petition against denialism of Armenian Genocide
7/2/14 Petition against the rogue decision of the European Court of Human Rights The European Court of Human Rights (Strasbourg, France) ruled on December ... Read More
Conference on Orthodoxy and Russian culture in Asia held in Beijing
Chinese Orthodox Church - February 2014 English translation by Katherine Ilachinski On December 13, 2013, a Chinese-Russian Conference "Russian cultural and historical traditions, and Russia's ... Read More
International Broadcast Schedule for Christmas Divine Liturgy from the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin
5/1/13 The Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin and the Shoghakat TV Company, working in conjunction with the “First Channel” of Armenian television (“H1”), are pleased ... Read More
May 19, Pontian Greek Genocide Remembrance Day
Stella Tsolakidou - 19/5/13 In 1994, May 19 was selected by the Greek parliament as the day to commemorate the Pontian Greek Genocide by the Turks. ... Read More
Syria’s Christian Minority Lives in Fear of Kidnapping and Street Battles
The bell tower of a church in Ras al Ayn, which was used as a base for snipers. (Danny Gold) The mural on the ... Read More
Christian persecutions continues in Mideast, Asia and Africa
4/4/13 (JNS.org) Christians continue to be persecuted in the Middle East, Asia and Africa through church attacks, blasphemy accusations and murders, states a summary by ... Read More
Metropolitan Hilarion completes his working visit to Kazakhstan
On 20 February 2013, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, chairman of the Synodal Biblical and Theological ... Read More
Metropolitan Zacharia Mar Aprem represents Indian Orthodox at the Conference of Religious Leaders of Asia
17/2/13 - Liju Cherian Correspondent - OCP News Service JAKARTA, Indonesia: Dr Zacharia Mar Aprem, Diocese Metropolitan of Adoor, (Kerala). will represent Indian (Malankara) Orthodox ... 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
Nicaean Church of Hagia Sophia began functioning as a mosque
3/8/2012 Historic Church of St. Sophia in Nicaea (modern Iznik, Turkey), where in 787, held the Seventh Ecumenical Council, began to function as a mosque, ... Read More
Metropolitan Yakob Mar Irenaios calls for govt intervention to tackle issue of migrants
Liju Cherian 31/7/2012 # Migrant population needs special attention, pastoral care, counselling # New avenues and possibilities of mobility have proved to be a catalyst ... Read More
Series of attacks in Iraq, dozens of dead. Church of St Mathew in Baghdad targeted
21/3/2012 Asia News A bomb exploded near the Syrian-Orthodox church in the capital, killing two guards and wounding five others. Across the country there were ... Read More