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ACTING MILITARY COMMANDER OF ISRAEL’S CIVIL ADMINISTRATION VISITS PATRIARCHATE
On Wednesday the 12th/25th of September 2013, the Acting Military Commander of Israel’s Civil Administration, Mr Raed Mansour, accompanied by the former Military Commander of Bethlehem, Mr Iyad Sirhan and the Director of the Department of Christian Affairs of Israel’s...
Read MoreFINNISH REPRESENTATIVE TO PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY VISITS PATRIARCHATE
On Wednesday the 12th/25th of September 2013, the representative of Finland to the Palestinian Authority, Dr Martin Irulu, visited His Beatitude Theophilos, our Father and Patriarch of Jerusalem, upon assuming office. In the context of this visit, His Beatitude talked...
Read MoreLAYING THE FOUNDATION STONE OF A CHURCH IN BIRZEIT
On the evening of Sunday the 9th/22nd of September 2013, the foundation-stone was set of a church of the Greek Orthodox (Rum Orthodox) Community of the Patriarchate in the town of Birzeit, near Ramallah. Birzeit is one of the most...
Read MoreTHE FEAST OF THE NATIVITY OF THEOTOKOS IN THE TOWN OF BEIT JALA
The feast of the Nativity of Theotokos was celebrated, due to pastoral reasons, at a day’s delay, on Sunday the 9th/22nd of September 2013, in the Church dedicated to the Nativity of Theotokos in the town of Beit Jala. The...
Read MoreTHE FEAST OF THE NATIVITY OF THEOTOKOS IN JERUSALEM
Celebrated on Saturday the 8th/21st of September 2013, was the feast of the Nativity of Theotokos, fruit of the womb of the formerly barren St Anne, through her connection to St Joachim, and vessel for the incarnation by the Holy...
Read MoreHOLY WATER RITE FOR THE BEGINNING OF CLASSES AT THE SCHOOL OF SION
On Tuesday the 4th/17th of September 2013, a holy water rite was performed on the occasion of the start of the new school year 2013-2014 in the Patriarchal Hieratic School on the hill of St Sion. The rite was performed...
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