Tag: Orthodox Church
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Turkey reaches out to Greek Christian minority
By Ivan Watson and Yesim Comert, CNN Within the last 15 days, several Greek Orthodox bishops have crossed oceans and continents to travel to a police station in Istanbul where they picked up an unexpected gift: Turkish passports. Since September, the Turkish government has granted passports and Turkish citizenship to at least 17 senior foreign…
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Friends of Indonesia launches new website
If you don’t know anything about the Church of Indonesia, or if you know only a little, read through the new and improved Friends of Indonesia website. This is one compelling story! It’s amazing what is going on there, 33 parishes and missions. Fr. Daniel Byantoro, who I finally got to meet and know during…
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Russia Now Has Over 30,000 Orthodox Churches; 23,000 Churches Restored in Russia Since 1990
HT: Theology and Society Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia today (December 6, 2010) cited statistics that 23,000 Orthodox Churches have been restored in Russia since 1990, according to the Interfax-Religion website. “No other country has ever seen anything like that,” he said. “The world should be aware of Orthodox Russia’s potential — we…
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Church left out of 9/11 renewal
Source: USA Today NEW YORK — Towers are rising again at the site of the World Trade Center, a place of devastation turned into a construction hub. But the cross-topped belfry of St. Nicholas Church isn’t among them. Nine years after it was destroyed in the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the little Greek Orthodox church that…
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St. Matthew Passion NY City Premiere Set for February 2011
Deborah Belonick, Advancement Information Officer, St Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary, www.svots.edu 914-961-8313 ext 363, 914-961-4507 FAX, deborah@svots.edu [SVOTS Communications Yonkers, NY] The English-language U.S. premiere of the St. Matthew Passion, by renowned Russian Orthodox composer and churchman Metropolitan Hilarion Alfeyev, will debut in New York City on February 7, 2011. St. Vladimirs Orthodox Theological…