The writer and director of a feature film about a group of young people who fought to save the innocent during the Holocaust has unveiled a new movement aimed at raising awareness about the dire religious persecution of Christians in the Middle East.
On Sunday, September 13, the twenty-one year old Miss Georgia, Vasiliki “Betty” Cantrell took up the crown and title of Miss America 2016 in the competition’s 95th anniversary held at Atlantic City’s Boardwalk Hall. Cantrell, who impressed the judges with her vocal performance, is involved in numerous artistic and charitable activities, several among them involving her Greek Orthodox faith.
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The establishment of the Theological School of the Church of Cyprus comes at a time when our country is in need of shining examples, said President of the Republic, Nicos Anastasiades who inaugurated the School together with Archbishop Chrysostomos II in the nearby grounds of the Archbishopric.
The symposium celebrates the 150th anniversary since the birth, and the 90thanniversary since the repose of Saint Tikhon (Bellavin), the first Patriarch of all Russia since the restoration of the patriarchate in 1917, who also served as a missionary bishop in North America from 1898-1907, and became a confessor of Orthodoxy during the time of the Bolshevik persecutions.
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The Valaam Monasterywill register its own trade mark Monastico, and under this name the brotherhood will make a special sort of cheese. Its recipe was worked out by Italian cheesemakers especially for Valaam.