Faith to Faith: Russian Patriarch ending landmark Armenia visit
March 18, 2010 by Fr. Johannes Jacobse · 2 Comments
ArmeniaNow.com Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill is completing today his three-day visit to Armenia during which he and his Armenian counterpart accentuated the strong bonds between the two churches and peoples. As part of the visit staged at the invitation of the Catholicos of All Armenians, the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church [...]
Armenians petition Turks for new patriarch
December 12, 2009 by John Couretas · 2 Comments
I post this for the benefit of Greek Orthodox bishops in America who have aspirations to Turkish citizenship. Make sure you don’t displease the Pasha. He’ll round file your job application. From the Dec. 10 issue of Today’s Zaman: Turkey’s Armenian Orthodox community seeks co-patriarch The Armenian Patriarchate in İstanbul is seeking permission to designate [...]
Report: ‘Serious violations’ of human rights in Turkey
November 28, 2009 by John Couretas · Leave a Comment
Here’s an introductory clip from Forum 18′s “TURKEY: Religious freedom survey, November 2009″: Ahead of the UN Human Rights Council May 2010 Universal Periodic Review of Turkey, Forum 18 News Service has found that the country continues to see serious violations of international human rights standards on freedom of religion or belief. A long-standing crucially [...]
Another Brawl at the Holy Sepulchre
November 9, 2008 by John Couretas · 1 Comment
Maybe it’s time to put these on pay-per-view, like they do for the cage fighters. Here’s the report from AP on those brawlin’ monks at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem: A bearded Armenian monk in a red-and-pink robe and a black-clad Greek Orthodox monk with a bloody gash on his forehead were [...]
Guroian on ‘Youth, Unity and Orthodoxy in America’
March 9, 2008 by John Couretas · Leave a Comment
Dr. Vigen Guroian delivered a talk on “Youth, Unity and Orthodoxy in America” at the 20th Anniversary Annual Meeting of Orthodox Christian Laity in Glenview, Illinois, in November. The theme of the OCL conference: “The Need for a Great and Holy Council.” Here’s Dr. Guroian (an advisor to AOI) on Orthodox youth: The college or [...]
‘A Patriarch in Dire Straits’
February 16, 2008 by John Couretas · Leave a Comment
At the Acton Institute, where I labor as communications director, I published a commentary pegged to Patriarch Bartholomew’s forthcoming book, “Encountering the Mystery.” The commentary was also picked up by the Assyrian News Agency. Read the full commentary here. In 1971, the Turkish government shut down Halki, the partriarchal seminary on Heybeliada Island in the [...]
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