Tag: ORTHODOX
Chicago Faith-Based Groups Join With IOCC To Deliver Books For Local Children
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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”
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