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[Orthodox]Doing time on God's clock in Georgia

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Clergy and prosecutors have struck a deal allowing criminals convicted of minor crimes to serve their sentences in the monasteries of the impoverished Caucasus Mountain nation.
Posted on Mar 12 2010

[Orthodox]Orthodox churches to conduct fourth Sunday Lenten Vespers March 14
The COCC conducts its series of Vespers services annually during the five Sundays of Orthodox Great Lent. The first three services this year were Feb. 21, Feb. 28 and March 7, respectively, at the Antiochian Orthodox Basilica of St. Mary, Livonia; St. Stephen Dechani Serbian Orthodox Church, Warren; and St. George Romanian Orthodox Cathedral. The last service will be March 21 at Holy Ghost Orthodox Church (Bulgarian Patriarchate), Sterling Heights.
Posted on Mar 11 2010

[Coptic]Egyptian Court Acquits Muslims Who Beheaded a Coptic Christian
This has been reported by Mary Abdelmassih in a story for the Assyrian International News Agency who said, "In broad daylight and in full view of witnesses, the killers fired 31 bullets to his head before beheading him, in the busy village market place of Attaleen, near Dairout, 313 kilometers south of Cairo," said, The dead body was then dragged in the street, accompanied by shouts of victory.
Posted on Mar 10 2010

[Orthodox]Bulgaria commemorates end of Holocaust, prevention of deportations
At the Yad Vashem memorial in Israel to the Holocaust, 14 Bulgarians are listed as Righteous Among the Nations, including the then-deputy speaker of Parliament, Dimitar Peshev, and Bulgarian Orthodox Church leaders Sofia Metropolitan Stefan and Plovdiv Metropolitan Kiril, who were prominent in the campaign against the deportations.
Posted on Mar 10 2010

[Orthodox]Orthodox Church Creates Department to Oversee Prisons in Russia
Patriarch Kirill announced Saturday that a special department has been created to oversee the implementation of parishes in each penitentiary, the Moscow Patriarchate said in a statement.
Posted on Mar 09 2010

[Orthodox]Orthodox churches to conduct third Sunday Lenten Vespers March 7
The Very Rev. Roman Star of St. Innocent of Irkutsk Orthodox Church, Redford, president of the Orthodox Clergy Brotherhood of St. John Chrysostom of Metropolitan Detroit and spiritual advisor to the COCC, will preside at the service, assisted by other members of the Clergy Brotherhood.
Posted on Mar 02 2010

[Orthodox]Patriarch Irinej enthronement postponed
Irinej was supposed to be enthroned on April 25 at the Peć Patriarchy in Metohija, western Kosovo.
Posted on Mar 01 2010

[Orthodox, Orthodox/Catholic]Ecumenical Patriarch receives papal birthday wishes
The Patriarch's birthday, the telegram says, offers the Pope "a welcome opportunity to thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ and the giver of every good, for the abundant blessings that he has bestowed on Your Holiness."
Posted on Mar 01 2010

[Archeology ]Pieces of rare biblical manuscript reunited
The 1,300-year-old fragments, which are among only a handful of Hebrew biblical manuscripts known to have survived the era in which they were written, existed separately and with their relationship unknown, until a news photograph of one's public unveiling in 2007 caught the attention of the scholars who would eventually link them.
Posted on Feb 26 2010

[Orthodox]Dean of St. Vladimir's Seminary to give Lenten talks in Michigan's Flint area PDF flyer
Fr. Behr's talks are free of charge and open to members of the public as well as Orthodox Christians.
Posted on Feb 26 2010
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