Tag: Greek Orthodox

Vandals Wrack Greek Orthodox Cemetery in Tripoli

OCP- November 16, 2012

  Stella Tsolakidou - 13/11/2012 Metropolitan Theofylaktos of Libya met an unsettling scene upon entering the Greek Orthodox Cemetery in Tripoli to conduct an annual memorial ... Read More

World’s most revered church seeks international backing in $2.3mln water bill standoff

OCP- November 13, 2012

12/11/2012 Jerusalem’s Church of Holy Sepulchre called on world leaders to help end what it calls an existentially “aggressive move” – Jerusalem’s water supply company ... Read More

Skull of apostle Matthew revealed during church celebration

OCP- November 10, 2012

By Reuters Cairo - 10/11/2012 A fragment of the skull of Apostle Matthew is placed on display in a Greek-Orthodox church in Cairo, on Thursday, ... Read More

Church of Holy Sepulchre bank account frozen over £1.5m water bill

OCP- November 3, 2012

Harriet Sherwood in Jerusalem 3/11/2012 Standoff over unpaid water bill could result in closure of revered church believed to be site of Jesus's crucifixion and burial. ... Read More

Orthodox Priest Murdered in Damascus

OCP- October 25, 2012

    25/10/2012 MEMORY ETERNAL !!! Damascus: The body of the Greek Orthodox priest Fr. Fadi Jamil Haddad, pastor of the church of St. Elias ... Read More

Patriarch of Jerusalem: We will Respond to the Occupation Crimes in the Holy Land with More Construction

OCP- October 12, 2012

PNN 12/10/2012 On Thursday 11th October, Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem, Theophilos III, said that Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem Will respond to the Israeli ... Read More

Priest sentenced to 6 years

OCP- October 4, 2012

Anthony Conchel News Journal 4/10/2012 GALION -- A Greek Orthodox Church priest who served in Mansfield as late as 2009 pleaded guilty last week to ... Read More

Greek Orthodox leader to AO: Church alone will govern Christians’ personal-status issues

OCP- September 28, 2012

Sherry El-Gergawi 27/9/2012   Greek Orthodox Church spokesman says recent requests by small Coptic group to make Egypt's Christians subject to Islamic Law – in ... Read More

Jordan tour: A Christian town

OCP- September 26, 2012

Greek Orthodox Church in Amman Steve Thorngate 24/9/2012 On Saturday I broke off from the tour group and went to Fuheis, a town of 20,000 ... Read More

Orthodox Church of Malawi reaction to Nyasa Times article

OCP- September 19, 2012

Archdiocese of the Orthodox Church of Malawi 19/9/2012 From the Orthodox Church in Malawi, we want to answer to the article that sappeared in the ... Read More

Israeli businessman convicted of “sordid” land fraud

OCP- September 16, 2012

15/9/2012 The District Court in East Jerusalem has convicted an Israeli businessman of fraud. Benno Zussman was found guilty of fabricating documents relating to land ... Read More

Syrian clergymen: Our duty is to join efforts to defend Syria

OCP- September 11, 2012

11/9/2012 Syria's Grand Mufti Dr. Ahmad Badreddin Hassoun and Greek Orthodox Patriarchal Assistant Bishop Luca al- Khouri called Syrian communities in Syria's Grand Mufti Dr. ... Read More

Hellenic Orthodox Church plans expansion to Lancaster

OCP- September 11, 2012

Jay Tokasz 11/9/2012 As they celebrate 100 years in Western New York, members of the area's Greek Orthodox community also are undertaking a new initiative ... Read More

Qns. Greek Orthodox church has piled up eight years of unpaid taxes

OCP- September 11, 2012

By SALLY GOLDENBERG 10/9/2012 The city is investigating how a Greek Orthodox church in Queens has avoided paying at least eight years’ worth of property ... Read More

Service Held At Turkey’s Historic Sümela Monastery

OCP- August 16, 2012

16/8/2012 (RTTNews) - Hundreds of Greek Orthodox Christians gathered for the annual religious service at the Sümela Monastery in Turkey's Black Sea coastal province of ... Read More

Greek-Canadians’ Solemn Assumption Day Commemoration

OCP- August 16, 2012

Areti Kotseli 15/8/2012 Hundreds of Christian Orthodox faithful Greek-Canadians marched to Koimisis Tis Theotokou Greek Orthodox Church in Park Extension, Montreal, to celebrate the greatest ... 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

Archbishop Demetrios of America: “The Greek-American Community Will Continue to Help Greece”

OCP- July 27, 2012

Stella Tsolakidou 26/7/2012 “The Greek-American community will continue to help Greece and its people,” underscored Archbishop Demetrios of America during his meeting with a delegation ... Read More

Gaza Christians fear the end of their tiny community

OCP- July 26, 2012

By The Associated Press 25/7/2012 Fears exploded publicly when two members of the flock recently converted to Islam, prompting them to stage a rare public ... Read More

Tarpon’s Greek Orthodox church reaches needy, homeless, with food and health care

OCP- July 21, 2012

By Terri Bryce Reeves, Times Correspondent 21/7/2012 Janella Jones began her Monday morning getting her blood sugar checked. Sitting in a chair, she pulled up ... Read More

Greek Orthodox Church Stance on the “God Particle”

OCP- July 9, 2012

7/7/2012 Areti Kotseli The Metropolitan of Messinia Chrysostomos expressed his opinion over the discovery of the so-called “God particle” that astonished the whole world during ... Read More