Malayala Manorama - India
Pathanamthitta: Thousands of believers on Sunday gathered on the sands of Pampa river for the 11th Maramon convention, billed as the largest Christian gathering in the world.

Dr Philipose Mar Chrisostom Mar Thoma Metropolitan, the Supreme head of Malankara Marthoma Syrian church, inaugurating the convention said only through love for all creations that man can forge a deep link with God, the creator....

WCC general secretary Rev. Dr Samuel Kobia on 27 January
wrote to the metropolitan of the Malanka Orthodox Syrian Church in Kerala, India, expressing the Council's deep sorrow and extending its condolences to all the members of the WCC member church on the death of its former catholicos, HH Baselios Marthoma Mathews II.

The Embassy of Greece in the United States of America - Washington, DC.
The overwhelming majority of the Orthodox Synod decided to no longer recognize Jerusalem Patriarch Irineos, after convening here on Tuesday.

The Synod's decision allows the three-member panel, currently in charge of the Jerusalem Patriarchate Synod, to proceed with the election of a new patriarch. Metropolitan of Caesarea Vassilios said that the panel would proceed immediately. Irineos was among the first to leave Phanar and did not make any statements.

Stuff.co.nz - Wellington,New Zealand
PORTO ALEGRE: Liberal reforms allowing female clergy and same-sex marriage are creating a widening gulf within world Christianity, a leading Russian Orthodox bishop said.

That growing divide may prompt Orthodox churches to consider a tactical alliance with Roman Catholicism to defend traditional Christian values, Bishop Hilarion Alfeyev said on the sidelines of the global assembly of the mostly Protestant World Council of Churches (WCC)....

AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
Leading Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant theologians have discussed the future of Christian unity at the World Council of Churches 9th Assembly.... Fr Dr Jacob Kurien of Malankara Orthodox Church, India, criticized the "ecumenical stagnation" of the present time....

RIA Novosti - Moscow,Russia
BAKU, February 21 (RIA Novosti) - President Vladimir Putin backed the idea of holding a summit of religious leaders in Moscow in July....

The decision to hold the summit was made on December 27, 2005 at the session of the Russian Orthodox Church Holy Synod, chaired by Alexy II.