Tag: Greek Orthodox
Vandals Wrack Greek Orthodox Cemetery in Tripoli
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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”
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
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
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”
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