Tag: Palestine

US religious leaders seek two-state solution for Palestine and Israel

OCP- January 27, 2013

Arthur Hagopian - 27/1/13 Leading figures among the Armenian and Greek Orthodox  churches in the US have joined other leaders of Christian, Muslim and Jewish ... Read More

Georgian pilgrims denied Israeli visas

OCP- January 12, 2013

12/1/13 - Lika Moshiashvili On Christmas Eve, the news that the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Israel had refused to issue visas to Georgia’s commercial ... Read More

Patriarch John X Calls for Dialogue and Peace in Syria

OCP- January 2, 2013

2/01/13 The new year celebrations were restricted this year to prayers without exchanging congratulations due to the events taking place in Syria and in honor ... Read More

In the footsteps of Jesus

OCP- December 24, 2012

Akrita Reyar 24/12/12 Setting foot into Israel is like walking into a bylane of history. It is a discovery of olden times, of the potential ... Read More

Lebanese president to new Orthodox Patriarch: Ensuring a dignified life to Christians of the East

OCP- December 20, 2012

Paul Dakiki -20/12/12 In greetings to Youhanna X Yazigi, Michel Sleiman talks about the problems of Christians in Iraq, Syria, Palestine and Israel. An appeal ... Read More

Holy Land: Christian leaders support Palestine’s membership of UN

OCP- November 20, 2012

20/1/2012 A hundred Christian community leaders in the Holy Land haved signed the following letter to European countries, calling for support for Palestine’s membership in ... 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

Monastic life in the Judean Wilderness

OCP- July 2, 2012

Daniel Peterson By William Hamblin and Daniel Peterson religion@desnews.com 1/7/2012 From the fourth through the seventh centuries A.D., a form of Christian religious devotion flourished ... Read More

UNESCO places Bethlehem’s Nativity Church on World Heritage endangered site list

OCP- June 30, 2012

29/6/2012 UN culture body upholds the motion 13-6 after admitting Palestine as a full member last October; Israel views move as Palestinian political stunt. PARIS ... Read More

Russian President and head of Palestinian National Authority open Russian Centre for Science and Culture in Bethlehem

OCP- June 29, 2012

On 26 June 2012, Russian President Vladimir Putin and head of the Palestinian National Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, took part in the opening of the Russian ... Read More

Conference of the Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society takes place in Moscow

OCP- June 9, 2012

On 4 June 2012, the second conference of the Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society (IOPS) timed to its 130th anniversary took place at the conference hall ... Read More

Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk was elected honorary member of the Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society

OCP- May 30, 2012

On 28 May 2012, the Council of the Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society (IOPS) held its regular session under the chairmanship of Sergei Stepashin, the chairman ... Read More

Patriarch Kirill receives delegation of the Patriarchate of Jerusalem

OCP- March 16, 2012

14.03.2012 On March 14, 2012, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia met with a delegation of the Patriarchate of Jerusalem at the ... Read More

Abbas promises to return everything to Russian Orthodox Church in Palestine

OCP- January 23, 2012

Moscow, January 23, Interfax - Head of the Palestinian National Authority Mahmoud Abbas has expressed readiness to continue the return of property to the Russian ... Read More

ORTHODOX NATIVITY, EPIPHANY AND THEOPHANY CELEBRATIONS WORLDWIDE

OCP- January 8, 2012

8/1/2012 ORTHODOX NATIVITY, EPIPHANY AND THEOPHANY CELEBRATIONS WORLDWIDE FROM 2th DECEMBER 2011 to 7th JANUARY 2012. Source1: Source2: Source3: Source4: Source5: Source6: Source7: Source8: Source9: ... Read More

2011 Ends on a Sour Note… Is Hamas Really a Mean-Minded Christmas Scrooge*?

OCP- January 2, 2012

Stuart Littlewood 31/12/2011 Phoebe Greenwood, writing from Gaza City in The Guardian on 23 December http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/dec/23/gaza-christians-hamas-cancelled-christmas, reported: “There hasn’t been a Christmas tree in Gaza ... Read More

“Kairos Palestine”: From Mendacity to Megalomania

OCP- December 23, 2011

Malcolm Lowe 23/12/2011 Late in 2009, a small group of Palestinian Christian clergy and laity banded together to produce a document entitled "Kairos Palestine." Basically, ... Read More

A Christmas journey part 3: ‘Tis the season

OCP- December 16, 2011

Ramallah – Wadi Qelt – Beir Zeit – Ramallah: popping into summer. 13/12/2011 More Snaps here: My Australian readers will have to forgive me on ... Read More

‘Christ at the Checkpoint’ Conference in Bethlehem Will Only Breed More Theological Extremism

OCP- November 10, 2011

Joseph Weissman 9/11/2011 Theologians based in Bethlehem and in Britain are organising a conference for Christian leaders and theologians, entitled Christ at the Checkpoint. The ... Read More

Archbishop Attallah Hanna meets the Sri Lankan Representative

OCP- September 23, 2011

2011-09-21 Attallah Hanna, met the Representative of Sri Lanka in the Palestinian territories at Movenpick Hotel in Ramallah to discuss the invitation to His Eminence ... Read More

Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society awards representatives of Russian Orthodox Church

OCP- July 9, 2011

6/7/2011 On July 6, 2011, the Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society held a grand meeting on the occasion of its initiator V. Khitrovo’s birthday, at the ... Read More