Christian world
14th Anniversary of Consecration of the Catholicos of All Armenians Celebrated in Busan
5. November 2013 - 14:02
The 10th Assembly of the World Council of Churches continues its works in Busan, South Korea. Present at the assembly is the delegation of the Catholicosate of All Armenians.
On November 3, the members of the delegation of the Mother See attended celebrations of Divine Liturgy at the Coptic and Greek Orthodox Churches. During the Divine Liturgy in the Coptic Orthodox Church, the 14th anniversary of the reign of His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians, was honored and celebrated.
Metropolitan Hilarion: The Voice Of The Church Must Be Prophetic
4. November 2013 - 9:24
Your Holinesses and Beatitudes, Your Eminences and Graces, dear brothers and sisters, esteemed delegates of the Assembly,
The World Council of Churches has a long and rich history. Set up after the Second World War, the Council responded to the expectations of Christians of various confessions who strove to meet, to get to know each other and to work together. Over the sixty five years since the founding of the WCC, several generations of Christians belonging to religious communities that were cut off from each other have discovered for themselves the faith and life of their brothers and sisters in Christ. Many prejudices regarding other Christian traditions have been overcome, yet at the same time that which divides Christians to the present has been acknowledged ever more clearly and deeply. The greatest achievement of the Council has been those encounters, that well intentioned and mutual respectful inter-Christian communication, which has never allowed for compromises in the field of theology and morality and which has enabled us to remain true to ourselves and to bear witness to our faith, while at the same time growing in love for each other.
Appeal from Archbishop Selwanos Boutros for the safety of Christians in Saddad& Homs in Syria
30. October 2013 - 16:28
To all international, humanitarian and religions organizations and institutions and to who have a humanitarian role in the world, To all people with good intentions in the world
I call for you today on behalves of all the innocent people including elders, women, children, young men and women trapped in an areas, where we can’t reach them nor can they reach us in Sadad and Alhafar. I appeal to the groups forbidding them from leaving sieged areas and to negotiate with them an evacuation in a safe way where they wouldn’t be harmed. Allowing them to move to Derattiah direction or in Homs direction where we will be waiting to receive them.
Hopes and aspirations for the tenth WCC Assembly
29. October 2013 - 15:30
The 10th Assembly of the World Council of Churches (WCC) begins at the end of October and promises to be one of the most diverse gatherings of Christians in the world.
The assembly will be an opportunity for renewing the worldwide ecumenical movement – infusing it with honesty, humility and hope, according to the WCC General Secretary.
Ancient Iveron icon of the Mother of God washes ashore in Sochi
29. October 2013 - 11:55
In the Golovinky district, a micro-district in the Lazarevsky city district of Sochi, an icon of the Mother of God was washed up on shore by the sea. The lady tourist who found it, brought it to the nearest Church—which turned out to be the Church of St. Nino, enlightener of Georgia.
Here it was determined that the discovered icon was the Iveron Icon of the Mother of God, whose first home was Georgia—ancient Iberia.
Pan-Orthodox magnificent slava days of togetherness and spirituality
28. October 2013 - 9:22
Despite the heavy rains and bad weather in Johannesburg on 19 and 20 October, when the patron feast-day was celebrated, a great number of parishioners, guests and priests visited the church of Saint Thomas the Apostle.
After almost five arid and dry months in Johannesburg, we all spontaneously felt the three-day intensive rain as a great blessing of God and Saint Thomas the Apostle, as well as the blessing of our Patriarch and the dearest guest, His Grace Bishop David of Stobi.
