Archive for July 23rd, 2008
‘Requiem for the Romanovs’
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008Robert Moynihan, writing for Inside the Vatican, has a moving report on the world premiere of a “Requiem Concert” in Russia’s largest church, Christ the Savior, in a commemoration of the 90th anniversary of the execution of Czar Nicholas II and his family on the night of July 17, 1918.
The historical texts and music were [...]
New Leader for Korean Orthodox
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008Metropolitan Ambrosios Aristotelis Zographos was enthroned on July 20 at St. Nicholas Orthodox Cathedral in Seoul as the Church’s second metropolitan, reports the Union of Catholic Asian News. Around 450 clergy and laypeople of the Orthodox Church from South Korea and abroad attended.
The Orthodox Metropolis of Korea, which is under the Ecumenical Patriarchate, has about [...]