Tag: UN
Guide: Christians in the Middle East
11/10/2011 BBC The Middle East is the birthplace of Christianity and home to some of the world's most ancient Christian denominations. But Christian communities across ... Read More
Moldovan Premier Warns Church Against Political Meddling
25/9/2011 CHISINAU -- Moldova's Prime Minister Vlad Filat has warned the country's powerful Orthodox Church to stop meddling in state affairs, RFE/RL's Moldovan Service reports. ... Read More
Priests of Chisinau Church District meet to discuss important issues of Church Life
15/9/2011 Moldovan Orthodox Church The church of St. Archangels Michael and Gabriel of Durleşti town hosted today the meeting of clergymen from Chişinau Church District. ... Read More
OCA represented at ceremony marking the opening of the 66th UN General Assembly
NEW YORK, NY 12/9/2011 His Beatitude, Metropolitan Jonah, was among the religious leaders invited to attend ceremonies marking the opening of the 66th session of ... Read More
Moldovan Orthodox Church Rejects UN Official’s Comments
14/9/2011 CHISINAU -- Moldova's Orthodox Church has criticized a UN official for suggesting it has too much influence in the country, RFE/RL's Moldovan Service reports. ... Read More
Cyprus Archbishop cautions over fate of Middle Eastern Christians
2/9/2011 Cyprus Archbishop Chrysostomos ΙΙ attended a gathering of the Primates of the four Patriarchates and the Αutocephalous Church of Cyprus, at the seat of ... Read More
Notes From Tripoli
By Franklin Lamb 30/8/2011 Countercurrents.org Tripoli Journal in Which Franklin Lamb Shields a Nigerian from Rebel Racists and Dreams of Chadian Ladies Tripoli: My roommate ... Read More
Painting led Serbs to last Balkans war Crimes Suspect
James Bone The Times 22/7/2011 AFTER seven years on the run, a cash-strapped Goran Hadzic was brought undone by a painting. The last war crimes ... Read More
As UN declares famine in Somalia, IOCC responds with aid to refugee Camps
21/7/2011 Responding to the United Nations announcement declaring a famine in two regions of Somalia, International Orthodox Christian Charities , in cooperation with the Ethiopian ... Read More
Serbian Patriarch Condemns NATO
15/6/2011 The head of the Serbian Orthodox Church Patriarch Irenaeus condemned the holding of a NATO conference in Belgrade. According to him, the wounds inflicted ... Read More
Seven years since Albanian pogrom against Serbs in Kosovo-Metohija
18/3/2011 Thursday marks seven years since the major ethnic Albanian pogrom against Serbs in Kosovo-Metohija on March 17, 2004, when Kosovo Serbs, their property and ... Read More
DECR chairman meets with UN Under-Secretary-General
7/2/2011 On February 7, 2011, Metropolitan Hilarion, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations, met with Mr. Kiyotaka Akasaka, UN Under-Secretary-General for ... Read More
UN refugee agency calls for Egypt to help ‘abducted’ Eritreans
By Bikya Masr Staff 8/12/2010 CAIRO: The United Nations refugee agency has urged the Egyptian government to assist in helping to secure the release of ... Read More
Serbia tells UN backing for Kosovo vote ‘impossible’
(AFP) 13/11/2010 UNITED NATIONS — Serbia told the United Nations on Friday that it would not urge ethnic Serbs to take part in Kosovo's election ... Read More
KFOR to secure Patriarch’s Inauguration
21/9/2010 KOSOVSKA MITROVICA -- Minister for Kosovo Goran Bogdanović says the inauguration ceremony of the Serbian Patriarch Irinej will be entrusted to KFOR. The ceremony ... Read More
Armenian Pontiff Receives UN Representative
Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin On August 25, in the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All ... Read More
Russian Сhurch envoy lambastes UN conference on racism
Prague, May 15, Interfax - April's UN conference on racism was "an outrageous instance of avoidance of dialogue by leading political forces," the Russian Orthodox ... Read More
Russian Church asks WCAR to introduce Christianophobia notion in intl law
Moscow, April 21, Interfax - The Russian Orthodox Church has asked the World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance (WCAR), which started ... Read More
Communique regarding the pogrom in Kosovo and Metohija on March 17, 2004 and 10-years of the NATO Bombing
Serbian Orthodox Church This March 17 is five years since the pogrom committed upon the Serbian orthodox people and the orthodox sanctuaries in Kosovo and ... Read More
Honouring the Memory of Archbishop Makarios
CYPRUS yesterday honored the memory of the first President aeimnistou Archbishop Makarios and Ethnarhou of C with pandima memorial to all the free cities of ... Read More