Tag: FOCUS

Focus Ecumenical Journal Features ‘The Identity of Jesus, as the Messiah (Christ)’

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- March 16, 2020

OCP News Service - 16/3/2020 Download here - Focus April 2020 (Vol. 8, No: II ) Global: April 2020 Vol. 8, No: II issue of ... Read More

Bulgaria to mark 1,150 years since Christianisation with solemn service in Pliska

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- May 2, 2015

FOCUS Information Agency - 2/5/15 Pliska. Patriarch Neofit of Bulgaria will head a solemn divine service at the Great Basilica in the town of Pliska to ... Read More

FOCUS North America helps bring calm understanding to Ferguson – MO

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- August 30, 2014

FERGUSON, MO - 30/8/14 FOCUS has been featured on multiple TV stations in Ferguson, MO, where its St. Louis Center and FOCUS Director, Eric Shanburn, ... Read More

Solemn water blessing ceremony held in front of Saints Cyril and Methodius Monument in Sofia

OCP- May 25, 2014

May 2014 Sofia. Priests with the Bulgarian Orthodox Church took part in the solemn water blessing ceremony in front of the Monument to Saints Cyril ... Read More

2014 FOCUS North America Internship Program

OCP- April 26, 2014

April 2014 Since 2009, FOCUS North America has offered an internship program to undergraduates and recent college graduates interested non-profit management and poverty reduction programs. ... Read More

Orthodox Church Museum could be one of the sections in the NHM: NHM director

OCP- December 14, 2013

14/12/13 Sofia. Museum of the Christianity could be one of the sections in the National History Museum (NHM) and could be situated on one of ... Read More

Provat bishop Ignatiy and Agathonisi bishop Boris compete for Bulgarian Orthodox metropolitan of Varna and Veliki Preslav

OCP- November 18, 2013

18/11/13 Varna: Provat bishop Ignatiy and Agathonisi bishop Boris are the two candidates for Bulgarian Orthodox metropolitan of Varna and Veliki Preslav. One of them ... Read More

No evidence of physical violence on bishop of Bulgaria’s Varn

OCP- July 10, 2013

FOCUS News Agency - 10/7/13 Varna. So far there is no information about the death of Varna metropolitan bishop Kiril that could lead to a ... Read More

“OUR UNITED POSITION AND OUR DEMNAD FOR COMPENSATION SHOULD BE THE FOCUS OF THE 100th ANNIVERSARY COMMEMORATIONS OF THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE” SAID HIS HOLINESS ARAM I

OCP- April 22, 2013

On 6 April 2013, His Holiness Aram I opened the consultation organized by the Lebanon Committee of the 100th Anniversary Commemoration of the Armenian Genocide, ... Read More

Bulgarians place highest trust in Bulgaria’s Orthodox Church: poll

OCP- April 4, 2013

4/4/13 Sofia. Bulgarians place highest trust in the Bulgarian Orthodox Church and this is the only institution with a positive rating, show the results of ... Read More

Plovdiv metropolitan bishop says he does not want to be elected Patriarch of Bulgaria

OCP- January 14, 2013

14/1/13 - FOCUS News Agency Plovdiv. Metropolitan bishop Nikolay of Plovdiv has announced that he does not want to be elected Patriarch of Bulgaria. “You ... Read More

CONFERENCE TO FOCUS ON SPIRITUAL GUIDANCE ON MOUNT ATHOS

OCP- October 26, 2012

  26/10/2012 Further press information: Graham Speake: 01295 721445 Source: gr.speake@gmail.com The Friends of Mount Athos: ‘Spiritual Guidance on Mount Athos’ will be the theme ... Read More

Forest fire near Greek Orthodox monastery spreads

OCP- August 10, 2012

FOCUS News Agency 9/8/2012 Thessaloniki. Authorities ordered the evacuation Thursday of young families and the elderly as a wildfire near Greece's monastic community of Mount ... Read More

Bulgaria’s capital city Mayor visited construction site of Armenian church

OCP- June 12, 2012

12/6/2012 SOFIA. – Bulgaria’s capital city Mayor Yordanka Fandakova stated that city hall would do everything to assist Armenians in building the church in Sofia. ... Read More

Bulgarians from Bosilegrad raise funds for the restoration of the burnt church in Bolgrad

OCP- May 31, 2012

FOCUS News Agency 31/5/2012 Bosilegrad. The fund-raising campaign in Bosilegrad for the restoration of the burnt Transfiguration Orthodox Church in Bolgrad has ended, the Cultural ... Read More

What is most important to Macedonian Orthodox Church is to return to canonical field, says Russian bishop

OCP- April 29, 2012

FOCUS News Agency 29/4/2012 Sofia. What is most important to the Macedonian Orthodox Church is for it to return to the canonical field, bishop Hilarion, ... Read More

Orthodox Christianity as part of contemporary culture

OCP- April 5, 2012

4/4/2012 FOCUS News Agency Sofia. The first lecture on orthodox Christianity as part of contemporary culture was delivered yesterday at the Festa Sofia Hotel by ... Read More

Bulgarians in Chisinau want at least one church with services in Bulgarian

OCP- March 16, 2012

6/3/2012 FOCUS News Agency Chisinau. The newly established NGO Bulgarian Community in Moldova – Bessarabian Bulgarians has required for at least one of the two ... Read More

Upper St. Clair man to direct social service ministry

OCP- February 27, 2012

By Ann Rodgers, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 27/2/2012 Nicholas Chakos of Upper St. Clair, who has moved all over the globe to help some of the world's ... Read More

Nevrokop Bishop Nathaniel: We have not been informers and will not become now

OCP- January 28, 2012

25/1/2012 FOCUS News Agency Dissenting opinion of Bishop of Nevrokop Nathaniel stated at a meeting of the Holy Synod of the full composition, report № ... Read More

Alfa, Macedonia: Bulgaria makes priests policemen who struggle with Macedonian Orthodox Church

OCP- December 10, 2011

FOCUS News Agency Southeast Europe and Balkans 9/12/2011 Skopje. The Bulgarian church was full of informers, comments the Macedonian television station Alfa. Emigrants’ newspaper Bulgaria ... Read More