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 [...]
Egypt’s Copts the ‘New Martyrs’?
Monday, July 7th, 2008Perilous times for Egypt’s Christian community. In “Egypt’s Coptic Christians Are Choosing Isolation,” the Washington Post reports that “the most populous Christian community in the Middle East is seeking safety by turning inward, cutting day-to-day social ties that have bound Muslim to Christian in Egypt for centuries.”
The story notes a dramatic decline in of the [...]