Tag: ORTHODOX

Chicago Faith-Based Groups Join With IOCC To Deliver Books For Local Children

OCP- May 10, 2014

May 2014 Baltimore, MD (IOCC) — Joined by wide-eyed youngsters from some of the city's most impoverished Southside neighborhoods, religious leaders gathered at the Ray ... Read More

IOCC Responds to Victims of Tornadoes in the South

OCP- May 4, 2014

4/5/14 Baltimore, MD (IOCC) — The powerful spring storms that spawned a cluster of damaging tornadoes this past week have affected the lives of millions ... Read More

ARAB AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM EXHIBIT LOOKS AT ORTHODOX RELIGION

OCP- April 29, 2014

Dearborn, Michigan -Pravoslavie- April 2014 The Arab American National Museum is currently featuring an exhibit entitled, Sacred Scenes: Icons of the Orthodox Church, reports the ... Read More

IOCC Helping Restore Homes And Livelihoods For Typhoon Haiyan Survivors

OCP- April 14, 2014

April 2014 Baltimore, MD (IOCC) — For years, Orlando supported his wife and five children by selling a daily catch of tilapia and milkfish snared ... Read More

EBOLA VIRUS AND THE ORTHODOX MISSION’S CHALLENGE IN SIERRA LEONE

OCP- April 10, 2014

Report by: Archimandrite Theistocles Adamopoulos Forwarded by: Jon Tsambazis OCP News Service - 9/4/14 Ebola a European Threat! The fear of the infection has even reached ... Read More

IOCC Assists Displaced Syrians Fleeing Embattled Kessab

OCP- April 8, 2014

8/4/14 Baltimore, MD (IOCC) — Intense fighting this past week in Kessab, a predominantly Armenian Christian town in northwestern Syria, forced hundreds of families to ... Read More

ATTACKS OF ORTHODOX CHURCHES ON CRETE CONTINUING

OCP- April 4, 2014

Profitis Ilias - 4/4/14 Pravoslavie.ru After the interval of just one month, unidentified blasphemers have desecrated one more Orthodox Church on Crete, reports AgionOros.ru with ... Read More

ORTHODOX CHURCH VANDALISED IN ISTANBUL

OCP- March 29, 2014

29/3/14 A group of young thugs, apparently from the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), vandalised an Orthodox Christian church in Istanbul. Although informed of the incident, the police refused to ... Read More

CONCLUSIONS OF THE 25th PAN-ORTHODOX CONFERENCE OF THE DELEGATES OF ORTHODOX CHURCHES AND HOLY DIOCESES ON MATTERS PERTAINING TO HERESIES AND PARA-RELIGION

OCP- March 26, 2014

March 2014 HELLENIC REPUBLIC THE HOLY SYNOD OF THE CHURCH OF GREECE 14 IOANNOU GENNADIOU STREET, ATHENS (115 21) SYNODICAL COMMITTEE FOR HERESIES 25th PAN-ORTHODOX ... Read More

Community Kitchen Addresses Malnutrition

OCP- March 18, 2014

March 2014 Baltimore, MD (IOCC) — Swirls of fragrant steam billow above large steel cauldrons as five middle-aged women stir thick, bubbling yellow lentil soup ... Read More

Building Resilient Communities in the Balkans

OCP- March 18, 2014

March 2014 Baltimore, MD (IOCC) — Fifteen years after NATO bombings and many ensuing conflicts in Kosovo, poverty and isolation continue to be a challenge ... Read More

REPORTS OF FIRST CHURCH IN SAUDI ARABIA ARE FALSE, SAYS COPTIC ORTHODOX CHURCH

OCP- March 7, 2014

7/3/14 The Coptic Orthodox Church has issued a statement refuting reports that the Coptic Pope has met Saudi Arabian officials over the creation of the first church ... Read More

THE METROPOLITAN OF NAZARETH AND THE NEW HEAD OF NAZARETH ORTHODOX COMMUNITY AT THE JERUSALEM PATRIARCHATE

OCP- March 4, 2014

Jerusalem Patriarchate - March 2014 On Saturday the 9th/22nd of February 2014, Metropolitan Kyriakos of Nazareth and the new President of the Greek Orthodox (Rum ... Read More

Syria’s Healthcare System Latest War Casualty

OCP- February 27, 2014

27/2/14 Baltimore, MD (IOCC) — Heavy fighting in Syria's embattled Idlib province forced Khaled, 5, and his family to flee their home and settle in ... Read More

IOCC Assists in Evacuation of Syrians Fleeing Homs

OCP- February 27, 2014

February 2014 Baltimore, MD (IOCC) — Syrian civilians evacuated from the embattled city of Homs under a UN-negotiated cease-fire are being aided by International Orthodox ... Read More

LONDON AND PARIS ASK FOR THE “ORTHODOX RUS. THE ROMANOVS” EXHIBITION

OCP- February 17, 2014

  St. Petersburg - 17/2/14 The exhibition, "Orthodox Rus. The Romanovs. My history", which was a great success in Moscow, may take place in a number of European ... Read More

Healing The Hidden Wounds Of War In Syria

OCP- January 23, 2014

January - 2014 Baltimore, MD (IOCC) — Joumana will never forget the day she, her husband and two children abandoned their home in the war-torn ... Read More

IOCC Delivers Winter Relief To Greece’s Most Vulnerable

OCP- January 14, 2014

January 2014 Baltimore, MD (IOCC) — As snow and nighttime temperatures fall in portions of Greece, the country's most vulnerable – the elderly, people with ... Read More

A divinely written icon: Orthodox theology can lead to new Christian thinking on creation

OCP- September 19, 2013

19/9/13 TOWARD AN ECOLOGY OF TRANSFIGURATION: ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN PERSPECTIVES ON ENVIRONMENT, NATURE, AND CREATION  Edited by John Chryssavgis and Bruce V. Foltz Published by Fordham ... Read More

OVER 70 SITES AT THE KIEV CAVES LAVRA TO BE GRANTED FOR USE BY UKRAINIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH

OCP- July 17, 2013

17/7/13 The Ukrainian government has decided to give to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (the Patriarchate of Moscow) for free use 75 objects of the national ... Read More

COMMUNIQUÉ AT THE END OF THE SYMPOSIUM: “ORTHODOX APPROACH FOR A THEOLOGY OF RELIGIONS”

OCP- June 26, 2013

26/6/13- OCP News Service Given the affirmation of the Orthodox engagement in the inter-faith dialogues, expressed in a high ranking document of the Eastern Orthodox ... Read More