Tag: EU
Ukrainian protesters find refuge from police in Kiev monastery
A wounded protester stands in front of St. Michael's cathedral with the European Union flag in Kiev November 30, 2013. REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov Thomas Grove - December ... Read More
Turkey’s EU Minister Bağış hosts minority leaders
EU Minister Bağış (2 L) is seen with Sait Susin, the President of the Meryem Ana Church Foundation (L), Fener Greek Patriarch Bartholomew (2 R), ... Read More
Office for Kosovo, EU rep, Norwegian govt. decorated
B92 - 27/11/13 DEČANI -- The Dečani Monastery marked its feast in a ceremony attended by several hundred believers, and Serbian ministers Aleksandar Vulin, Nebojša ... Read More
Head of EU Delegation meets with Serbian Patriarch
November 2013 His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch received on 12 November 2013 at the Serbian Patriarchate in Belgrade Mr. Michael Davenport, Head of the EU ... Read More
If Kosovo is the price, than we say Thank You but No Thank you to EU – Irinej
TANJUG - 10/11/13 The head of the Serbian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Irinej, said that Serbia can not give up on Kosovo, and if the price ... Read More
His Holiness Aram I meets representatives of countries and institutions at the European Union (EU) in Brussels
21/10/13 On the occasion of his presence in Brussels to address the 3rd Conference of the Armenian Genocide Committees in Europe, Catholicos Aram I of Cilicia ... Read More
Coptic Pope Blasts Muslim Brotherhood, US, EU
19/8/13 (AINA) -- Since ex-president Morsy's ouster on July 3, attacks on Egyptian Christians by members of the Muslim Brotherhood have taken place in most ... Read More
1,025 years of Christianity: Ukraine hosts Orthodox celebrations while questioning its future
28/7/13 The Orthodox Church is celebrating the 1025th anniversary of introduction of Christianity into medieval Russia. Clerical delegations and the leaders of Russia, Ukraine and ... Read More
Putin urges Ukraine to join forces with Russia
28/9/13 KIEV (AFP) - President Vladimir Putin on Saturday urged Ukraine to join forces with former fellow Soviet state Russia, saying Russians and Ukrainians were ... Read More
Mount Athos Monks Won’t Move Out for EU
Christina Flora -20/7/13 According to information, there has been unrest in Mount Athos since the night of July 17, as police forces with two patrol cars ... Read More
Gloves Come Off In Moldova’s Church-State Battle
Mircea Ticudean - 3/7/13 It is a little like the proverbial unstoppable force running up against an immovable object. Moldova's reformist, pro-EU ruling coalition is ... Read More
2013 – European Year of Citizens. The current crisis – an opportunity to increase in wisdom
Address of His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church, on the occasion of the Annual meeting of European religious leaders with high ... Read More
LGBT, NATO, EU and Orthodox Christianity
28/5/13 Currently, issues pertaining to LGBT, NATO, EU and Orthodox Christianity, are intensively being discussed in the Georgian media and within political circles– sometimes in ... Read More
Serbia must not loosen ties with Russia in seeking to join EU – Patriarch
Belgrade, May 7, Interfax - The primate of the Serbian Orthodox Church has insisted that Serbia must not loosen its ties with "great Russia" in ... Read More
Cyprian Archbishop Calls On Central Bank’s Head, Finance Minister To Resign
By VOR - 1/4/13 The head of Cyprus’s Orthodox Christian Church Archbishop Chrysostom II has called on the Chairman of the country’s Central Bank Panikos Dimitriadis ... Read More
In Cyprus financial crisis, even Orthodox Church could lose millions
By Roy Gutman -McClatchy Newspapers 27/3/13 The Cypriot government has agreed to force bank-account holders to help pay for the rescue of debt-ridden banks, but who actually ... Read More
Cyprus Church: EU bailout offensive
19/3/13 Primate of the Greek Orthodox Church on the island, Archbishop Chrysostomos II, described the Europeans stance at the Eurogroup on Cyprus as “offensive". Speaking ... Read More
Pastoral seminar at Halki Theological School
On Monday, March 4, 2013, a three-day seminar entitled "The Second Period of the Ecumenical Synod" was held at the Theological School of Halki with ... Read More
EU, IMF want Cypriot natural gas, but will get nothing – Archbishop
13/3/13 Cypriot’s moneylenders, namely the European Union and the International Monetary Fund, seek to get hold of the natural gas deposits that have recently been ... Read More
European Parliament holds seminar on Discrimination of Christians in Europe
9.10.2012 A seminar on the Discrimination of Christians in Europe was held on October 2, 2012, in the European Parliament in Brussels. Organized together by ... Read More
Liberman condemns vandalism of Jerusalem church
By HERB KEINON 10/10/2012 In a meeting with his Romanian counterpart, the Foreign Minister expresses the government’s “sorrow” over the attack. Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman ... Read More