Tag: Cyprus

Archimandrite Chrysostomos Kykkotis elected as new Metropolitan of Kyrenia

OCP- November 29, 2011

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

OCP- November 28, 2011

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

OCP- November 7, 2011

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

OCP- October 21, 2011

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!

OCP- October 14, 2011

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

OCP- September 30, 2011

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

OCP- September 26, 2011

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

OCP- September 24, 2011

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

OCP- September 17, 2011

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

OCP- September 14, 2011

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’

OCP- September 14, 2011

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

OCP- September 13, 2011

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

OCP- September 12, 2011

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

OCP- September 8, 2011

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

OCP- September 2, 2011

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

OCP- September 2, 2011

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

OCP- August 30, 2011

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

OCP- August 24, 2011

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

OCP- August 22, 2011

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

OCP- August 5, 2011

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

OCP- July 6, 2011

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