UNESCO-listed Boyana Orthodox Church reveals identity of its medieval master
6. October 2008 - 7:30The 13th-century master who painted what has been listed by UNESCO as one of the world's finest collections of medieval frescoes at the Boyana church on the outskirts of Sofia has finally been identified.
"We now know the painter with certainty," the director of the National History Museum Bozhidar Dimitrov told AFP, as the church reopened Thursday to the public after undergoing restoration work for almost a century.
Orthodox cemetery desecrated in Kosovo and Metochia
6. October 2008 - 7:25Unidentified delinquents desecrated an Orthodox cemetery located between villages of Tomance and Petrovce in the Kosovska Kamenica community (in the Southeast District), the Kosovo diocesan website has reported on Friday, October 3rd 2008.
According to the head of the village administration Ivan Petrovic, two gravestones are destroyed, several crosses are broken, metallic fence and gates are damaged, windows in the utility houses are also broken.
The Pope has begun a Bible-reading marathon on Italian television
6. October 2008 - 7:19Pope Benedict's "In the beginning" has started off a weeklong Bible-reading marathon on Italian television. RAI state TV began its program called "The Bible Day and Night," with Benedict reciting the first chapter of the book of Genesis - the holy text's opening verses about the creation of the world.
The marathon will feature more than 1,200 people reading the Old and New Testament in over seven days and six nights.
Court rehabilitates Emperor Nicholas II, royal family members
2. October 2008 - 9:44
The presidium of the Russian Supreme Court has ruled to
rehabilitate the last Russian Emperor Nicholas II and the members of his
family.
"The presidium of the Supreme Court has ruled to recognize Nikolay
Alexandrovich Romanov [Nicholas II], Alexandra Fyodorovna Romanova, Olga
Nikolayevna Romanova, Tatyana Nikolayevna Romanova, Maria Nikolayevna Romanova,
Anastasia Nikolayevna Romanova, and Alexey Nikolayevich Romanov as groundlessly
repressed and rehabilitate them," a Supreme Court judge said in
pronouncing the ruling.
Patriarch Ignatius IV to Visit U.S.
27. September 2008 - 15:37His Beatitude, Patriarch Ignatius IV, will visit the Antiochian Archdiocese in the United States from October 28-November 2, 2008. His Beatitude will arrive at Newark airport and will be staying in Boston, Massachusetts.
