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Seminary Academic Year Begins With Annual Retreat
JOHNSTOWN, PA -- Students returned yesterday to Christ the Saviour Seminary to begin preparations for the 2012-2013 Academic Year which begins on Monday, September 10, 2012.
Read more...Diocesan Parishes To Observe College Student Sunday on Sept 16, 2012
JOHNSTOWN, PA [Diocesan Chancery] -- It's that time of year again and as Orthodox students arrive on college campuses, The Orthodox Christian Fellowship (OCF )is already in high gear, organizing resources and programs to help our students stay connected to Christ and His Church. On Sunday, September 16th, parishes across North America will be celebrating College Student Sunday and recognizing our college students. Read more...
Encyclical of His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew for the Church New Year
ECUMENICAL PATRIARCHATE -- Beloved brothers and children in the Lord,Our God, who created the universe and formed the earth as a perfect dwelling place for humanity, granted us the commandment and possibility to increase, multiply and fulfill creation, with dominion over all animals and plants. The world that surrounds us was thus offered to us as a gift by our Creator as an arena of social activity but also of spiritual sanctification in order that we might inherit the creation to be renewed in the future age Read more...
Ecumenical Patriarchate Issues Communiqué on the Resurgence of Violence Spreading Throughout the World
CONSTANTINOPLE, [Ecumenical Patriarchate] -- The Ecumenical Patriarchate expresses profound concern about the resurgence of violence currently spreading throughout the world. From America to Africa and throughout Europe and Asia, continents are confronted with the phenomenon of intolerance that not only undermines world stability and peace, but also constitutes a denial of human dignity. Racial murders, genocide, ethnic cleansing, anti-semitism, destruction of places of worship etc, constitute barbaric acts that must be denounced publicly Read more...
Video of Diocesan Altarboy Retreat Featured in Johnstown Tribune-Democrat
JOHNSTOWN — Altar boys on Tuesday marched to Christ the Saviour Cathedral at 300 Garfield St. For more than a half-century, altar boys from the American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese have come to Johnstown to learn what it would be like to become a priest. Read more...