Tag: Germany

Germany to offer Syrian Christians asylum

OCP- November 15, 2012

15/11/2012 'It's an act of humanity. I think that we have to be prepared to do so' (THELOCAL.DE) — German politicians from Angela Merkel’s governing Christian ... Read More

Archbishop Philexinos Matthias Nayis as the Archbishop of the Diocese of Germany

OCP- November 5, 2012

5/11/2012 Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch and All East BEIRUT: Patriarch Ignatius Zakka Iwas  has appointed H.E. Mor Philexinos Matthias Nayis as the Archbishop for ... Read More

Metropolitan Augustine Blasts Racism in Greece

OCP- October 29, 2012

Nicky Mariam Onti 28/10/2012 Orthodox Metropolitan Augustine of Germany’s Ecumenical Patriarchate has condemned what he called “xenophobia and racism, wherever they’re coming from,” noting an ... Read More

Stolen St. Nicolaos Icon Found in German Gallery

OCP- October 12, 2012

Christina Flora 12/10/2012 An icon of St. Nicolaos, stolen eight years ago from the Goudovasdas Monastery in St. Paraskevi, in Kalomira, and the Kalambaka area ... Read More

Archbishop Mark of Berlin and Germany Visits the “Athos of the Urals”

OCP- October 10, 2012

Ekaterina Lyubomirksaya Dmitry Selishchev Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia 10/10/2012 On October 5, 2012, His Eminence Archbishop Mark of Berlin and Germany visited St Nicholas ... Read More

Archons offer twitter updates during Religious Freedom Mission to Berlin, Ecumenical Patriarchate and Ankara

OCP- September 13, 2012

Berlin, Germany 9/10/2012 Click here to access Twitter: With the blessings of His Eminence Archbishop Demetrios of America, Exarch of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, an Archon ... Read More

His Beatitude Catholicose Aboon Mor Baselios Thomas Ist visited His Holiness Ignatius Zakka Iwas IPatriarch at Germany

OCP- August 18, 2012

Syrian Orthodox Church 18/8/2012 His Beatitude Catholicose Aboon Mor Baselios Thomas Ist visited His Holiness at Germany. Source: Read More

Prayers Requested for Patriarch Moran Mor Ignatius Zakka Iwas I

OCP- June 25, 2012

24/6/2012 His Holiness Moran Mor Ignatius Zakka Iwas I, supreme head of the Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch and All East is on a visit ... Read More

The Kursk-Root Icon of the Mother of God is Brought to the Construction Site of All Saints Church

OCP- June 22, 2012

DIOCESE OF BERLIN AND GERMANY - ROCOR 20/6/2012 On June 19, 2012, with the blessing of His Eminence Archbishop Mark of Berlin and Germany, Vice ... Read More

Turkish Ambassador Visits Armenian Primate of Germany

OCP- June 4, 2012

4/6/2012 Archbishop Karekin Bekdjian, Primate of the Armenian Apostolic Church Diocese in Germany, says he’s been visited by Turkey’s Ambassador to Germany Hüseyin Avni Karslıoğlu ... Read More

Orthodox Metropolitan Violate Holy Cannons – Reports (Updated)

OCP- May 18, 2012

18/5/2012 It has been reported by various sources that Orthodox Metropolitan Augustine of Germany of the Ecumenical Patriarchate has violated the holy cannons of the ... Read More

Famous 13th century religious artefact makes flying visit to Wirral

OCP- May 9, 2012

Linda Foo Guest, Heswall News 9/5/2012 A FAMOUS religious icon will make a flying visit to Wirral this Friday. The Kursk Root Icon will come ... Read More

A Pannikhida is Planned for the Oldest Russian Military Cemetery in Germany

OCP- May 1, 2012

1/5/2012 Russian Church outside Russia There is a small town named Weingarten in the Baden-Wurttemberg region of southern Germany, north of the Bodensee (Lake Constance). ... Read More

Hopes to Revive the Christian Area of Turkey

OCP- April 5, 2012

By SUSANNE GÜSTEN 4/4/2012 IDIL, TURKEY — Clambering over the rubble of what was once his hometown, Robert Tutus pointed to a spot just up ... Read More

Six Orthodox bishops served in Stuttgart

OCP- March 14, 2012

14/3/2012 On 11th March 2012, Holy Hierarchal Liturgy in the church of Synaxis of All Serbian Saints in Stuttgart six Orthodox bishops served. Besides the ... Read More

Catholicos Patriarch of all Georgia to visit Germany for medical examination

OCP- January 17, 2012

17/1/2012 Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia Ilia II will leave for Germany for medical examination at the end of this week. As Patriarchate told Trend, he ... Read More

Europe No Longer Center of Christian Faith

OCP- December 23, 2011

BY BRUCE WALKER 20/12/2011 Christianity was once so localized to Europe that the term “Christendom” largely meant Europe. After the fall of Constantinople in 1453, ... Read More

The Foundation Stone To A New Romanian Church In Aubing, Munich

OCP- December 13, 2011

On 11 September 2011, hundreds of Romanian and German faithful participated in the laying of the foundation stone to a new Romanian Orthodox church in ... Read More

Qashisho Habib Önder, A senior priest of the Syriac Orthodox Church in Germany honored by the German Government

OCP- December 13, 2011

10/12/2011 Rev. Fr. Habib Önder, a senior priest of the Holy Syriac Orthodox Church in Germany was honoured by the German government for his outstanding ... Read More

Turkey’s FM visits Orthodox and Syriac churches in Germany

OCP- December 4, 2011

4/12/2011 Ahmet Davutoglu met Christian Turkish citizens at the Saint Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church and St Petrus and Paulus Church in Cologne. Turkey's foreign minister ... Read More

Adiyaman Assyrian Priest – “One Cemetery is All We Have Left”

OCP- October 11, 2011

By Sabri Atman 10/10/2011 We are in the middle of July. Germany did not see the summer season this year. "When did it ever?" can ... Read More