AINA - Modesto,CA,USA
The Second International Coptic Conference, convening this week in Washington, comes amid Egypt's parliamentary elections and heightenedAmerican and international attention to the democratic advances in the Arabworld's most populous country. Often overlooked is the fact that Egypt'spopulation of nearly 75 million includes the Middle East's largest Christian minority, over seven million, the vast majority of whom are members of the Coptic Orthodox Church and have in the last half-century experienced institutionalized discrimination that renders them little more than second-class citizens....

Zenit News Agency - Rome,Italy
21, 2005 (Zenit.org).- Benedict XVI explained that the dignity of a human being is not identified with his DNA genes -- and thus it does not diminish when genetic defects exist...

AllAfrica.com - Africa
President Girma Wolde-Giorgis said the Ethiopian Orthodox Church (EOC) could play crucial role in prevention and control of HIV/AIDS since the church has immense human resource and closer ties with the public...

Arab Times - Kuwait
KUWAIT CITY: His Holiness Catholicos Aram Keshishian, the Head of the Armenian Church, is visiting Kuwait Wednesday on a week-long trip to mark the 75th anniversary of the foundation of the Theological seminary in Antelias, Lebanon...

It was on June 15, 1848, that Kochu Ipeora(Geevarghese) was born in ...
The youngest among them was Geevarghese Ramban and who was named Mar Gregorios. ...

Interfax-Religion - Moscow,Russia
Over 30 thousand Orthodox faithful protesting in Kiev against attempts to tear the Ukrainian Church away from the Moscow Patriarchate... A thousands-strong procession with the cross took place on Sunday in Kiev on the occasion of the anniversary of the ‘Orange Revolution’...

juiceenewsdaily - Jasper,AL,USA
Santa Claus (also known as Saint Nicholas, Saint Nick, Father Christmas, or simply Santa) is a character in various and other cultures who gives presents to children on Christmas Day... In Eastern Orthodox tradition, he visits children on the New Year's Day and is identified with Saint Basil whose memory is celebrated on that day...

Spero News - USA
Dave Shiflett, described by Chuck Colson as one of the most astute culture watchers and writers I know, has written Exodus to answer the question he poses in the subtitle: Why Americans are Fleeing Liberal Churches for Conservative Christianity...

Kerala Church takes up Communist Agenda. Posted November 18, 2005 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM
Don Sebastian Friday, November 18, 2005 23:50 IST DNA INDIA ... After cozying up to the Left in Kerala in the recent panchayat polls, Catholic Church has adopted its former bete noire's pet theme: anti-globalisation. Kerala Catholic Youth Movement (KCYM), a lay association closely associated with the Church, is campaigning against globalisation and World Trade Organisation...

Thomas Didymus was one of the twelve disciples. It has been
conjectured that Thomas was the twin brother of Matthew, and was originally called Jude; and that Jude was the son of James the Less, and therefore grandson of Alpheus. Some legends make Thomas the twin of James. Thomas whose other name is Didymus, in Greek "the twin"...

Holy Qurbana or Qurbana Qadisha, the "Holy Sacrifice," refers
to the Divine Liturgy as celebrated according to the Chaldean and Syriac Christian Rites, the former by the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church and the Assyrian Church of the East, and the latter by Indian Orthodox Church, the Syriac Orthodox Church, and others which worship according to the Syriac Orthodox tradition. The Syriac word Qurbana (also spelled as Kurbana) is cognate with the Hebrew word Korban...

AsiaNews.it - Italy
Jobs and training are needed to improve the lives of Dalit Christians, this according to a seminar organised by the Dalit Christian Federation that drew more than 500 participants from the city of Bangalore and surrounding rural areas....

Hellenic News of America - USA
In 1951 Father Theodosios Makkos saved the life of Prince Hussein who later became king of Jordan. Father Theodosios was born in Smyrna, Asia Minor, present day Turkey, on July 11, 1913. He became an orphan at an early age and was reared by his grandmother and aunt... This is a remarkable story of friendship of a simple monk anda king, a Greek Orthodox Christian and the other a Muslim...