MTI (Subscription) - Budapest,Hungary
Moscow, March 2 (MTI) - The Hungarian government has decided to finance the reconstruction design for one of the towers of a Russian Orthodox church in Budapest, Russian sources reported on Thursday....

Webindia123 - India
Athens | March 03, 2006 1:15:20 AM IST An Orthodox Christian and a Muslim man who were travelling to Germany were forcibly put on separate flights after they began fighting over their religious beliefs at the i nternational airport here, reports said Thursday....

Spero News - USA
Almost as soon as a person begins any serious exploration of the Christian heritage, he or she invariably runs across references to "the Fathers of the Church" or Early Church Fathers. ...

Washington Post - United States
Leaders of the Orthodox Church in America, facing allegations that they mismanaged millions of dollars, rejected calls for an immediate investigation but promised to follow better accounting procedures in the future.

The 400,000-member denomination has been reeling since October from accusations by its former treasurer, Deacon Eric A. Wheeler. He says that during the late 1990s, its top officials diverted donations from agribusiness magnate Dwayne Andreas, U.S. military chaplains and ordinary parishioners, using some of the money to cover credit card debts and pay sexual blackmail....

Hindu - Chennai,India
Thiruvananthapuram, March. 1 (PTI): The Kerala Government today announced guidelines to deal with the long pending dispute between Orthodox and Jacobite factions of Malankara Orthodox church in the state.

The dispute relates to control over churches....

Catholic News Service - USA
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- In the 2006 edition of the Vatican's official yearbook, the pope is no longer referred to with the title "patriarch of the West," a change with potential ecumenical implications....

Salt Lake Tribune - United States
HOLLADAY - Theirs wasn't the most likely of friendships. He was a priest, living in a monastery, who had grown up on a farm in Eritrea and studied in Cairo, Egypt. She was an Israeli Jew, the daughter of Polish immigrants who had escaped Europe just before World War II. Thirteen years, plus language, religion and cultural gaps, separated the two. And yet, from the day they met on a bench outside Hebrew University in Jerusalem, the man now known as Bishop Makarios of the Coptic Orthodox Church and Ruth Lewy, nee Silberberg, have been dear friends ...