Tag: Cyprus
Archimandrite Chrysostomos Kykkotis elected as new Metropolitan of Kyrenia
25/11/2011 The Holy Synod of the Church of Cyprus, met on Thursday morning, on November 24, 2011, to elect a new Metropolitan of Kyrenia. Following ... Read More
Cyprus to host Middle East Council of Churches Meeting
FAMAGUSTA GAZETTE 28/11/2011 The Church of Cyprus will be hosting the 10th General Assembly of the Middle East Council of Churches, on November 29 and ... Read More
Cyprus and Israel to set up committee on Mediterranean Peace Vision
5/11/2011 FAMAGUSTA GAZETT Cyprus and Israel have decided to establish a joint committee on their Mediterranean vision for peace and for the relations between the ... Read More
Bosnia, Cyprus and Kosovo: America and Islamism in the Balkans. By Lee Jay Walker and Murad Makhmudov
20/10/2011 The conflicts that engulfed the former Yugoslavia still remain unresolved in the political arena and open to Western political shenanigans and covert meddling from ... Read More
His All Holiness: God is not your central banker!
11/10/2011 BURAK BEKDİL On this side of the most beautiful sea in the world, there is a silent war between those who think that the ... Read More
Texas Museum to Return Orthodox Frescoes to Cyprus
By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus 30/9/2011 (AP) A Houston-based museum exhibiting a set of rare 13th-century frescoes that were looted from Cyprus more ... Read More
Archbishop:Turkey destroys religious heritage in occupied Cyprus
FAMAGUSTA GAZETTE 26/9/2011 Archbishop of Cyprus Chrysostomos II has indicted Turkey for the destruction of holy sites in the northern Turkish occupied areas of the ... Read More
Returning From Texas at Age 700
Hester and Hardaway Photography Kelly Crow 24/9/2011 After more than two decades, a pair of Byzantine-era chapel frescoes in Houston is heading home—to the Mediterranean ... Read More
Mary Alexopoulou: The Singer Who Became A Nun
16/9/2011 The story of Mary Alexopoulou, a successful musician of the 1960's and who today is an abbess named Theonymphi (tr. Bride of God), can ... Read More
Our View: Despite Prelate’s views, Church’s political role less than Exemplary
13/9/2011 ARCHBISHOP Chrysostomos knows very well how to dominate the headlines. He illustrated this talent once again on Friday, when he explained to a small ... Read More
Archbishop a ‘vessel of discord and division’
By Natalie Hami 11/9/2011 GOVERNMENT spokesman Stefanos Stefanou questioned whether Cyprus was an EU member state yesterday with the church trying to make policy instead ... Read More
THE NEW AMBASSADOR OF CYPRUS VISITS HIS BEATITUDE
Alexandrian Patriarchate On 9th September 2011, His Beatitude Theodoros II Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa welcomed to the Patriarchal See the new ... Read More
Orthodox leaders smooth path to proposed Summit Meeting
12/9/2011 The patriarchs of three ancient Orthodox Christian churches met from 1-2 September in Istanbul to discuss the situation of Christian minorities in the Middle ... Read More
Synaxis of Heads of the ancient Patriarchates
On Thursday and Friday, September 1-2, 2011, His All-Holiness presided over deliberations for the Synaxis of the Heads of the ancient Patriarchates and the Autocephalous ... Read More
Cyprus Archbishop cautions over fate of Middle Eastern Christians
2/9/2011 Cyprus Archbishop Chrysostomos ΙΙ attended a gathering of the Primates of the four Patriarchates and the Αutocephalous Church of Cyprus, at the seat of ... Read More
Continuation Of The Inter-Orthodox Co-Operation And Solidarity
The Press Office of The Romanian Patriarchate informs us: On 30 August 2011, His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church, received the visit ... Read More
Turks desecrate 500 churches in North Cyprus – OSCE
30.08.11 Since the occupation of North Cyprus (1974), 500 churches on the territory were desecrated plundered and converted to mosques, according to the OSCE report ... Read More
ME Council of Churches meeting to take place in Cyprus
By Argyro Nicolaou 24/8/2011 THE GENERAL Assembly of the Middle Eastern Church Council will take place in Cyprus late in November, Archbishop Chrysostomos announced yesterday. ... Read More
Cyprus Archbishop seeks the intervention of the King of Jordan
CAROL AMENT / FG ONLINE 19/8/2011 Achbishop Chrysostomos will fly to Jordan next Saturday and will ask the Jordanian King to intervene to the Turkish ... Read More
Sofia Named Permanent Host of Religious Tolerance
5/8/2011 Sofia is slated to outshine Jerusalem by becoming a permanent host of a tolerancedialogue between different religions from all over the world. The news ... Read More
DECORATION OF HIS EXCELLENCY THE AMBASSADOR OF CYPRUS BY HIS BEATITUDE
03/07/2011 On 2nd July 2011, at the Holy Church of ST George in Old Cairo, His Beatitude Theodoros II, Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and ... Read More