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A ‘somber’ time for Egypt’s Copts
From the Times (UK): The first two months of the Coptic new year have been a somber time for Egypt’s ancient Christian community. The new year fell on the inauspicious date of September 11. And a spate of attacks on this large and downtrodden community by Islamist extremists or villagers giving a religious pretext to…
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Orthodox Worried Over ‘No Crucifixes’ Ruling
Update (Nov. 17): Italian Mayors Order Crucifixes Put in Classrooms in Revolt against European Court Ruling. Polish president and Greek Orthodox Church also hit out at decision against crucifixes in classrooms (Source: LifeSiteNews.com) ——- From the Zenit news service: ATHENS, Greece, NOV. 16, 2009 — The leader of the Greek Orthodox Church is ready to…
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Serbia’s Patriarch Pavle (1914-2009)
BELGRADE (Reuters) – Patriarch Pavle, who headed the Serbian Orthodox Church during the breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s as Serbs warred with neighbors of other faiths, died on Sunday, a top church official said. Pavle, 95, died at a special apartment in Belgrade’s Military Hospital where he had been treated since 2007 for various…
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