Zanzibar: Muslims bomb cathedral

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Zanzibar — Two homemade bombs exploded Monday on the popular Indian Ocean tourist island of Zanzibar, but with no casualties, police said, in the latest in a series of attacks.

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Patriarch of Ethiopian Orthodox Church Arrested Temporarily

The patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tawahedo Chruch, Abune Mathias, was placed under house arrest temporarily, but has since been released, according to a report by the Ethiopian Review today.

ECUMENICAL PATRIARCH HONORS NELSON MANDELA

  

Sharing the world’s mourning for the loss of Nelson Mandela, His All-Holiness spoke in Myra of Lycea (in Asia Minor) of the South African Nobel laureate as a model of compassion and reconciliation. His

Mandela Clan outcasts are left off the guest list for funeral because there's no room... but 4,500 VIPs get a pass PHOTO

• Under tribal traditions Mandela's funeral ought to be a family gathering 
• Huge 'marquee' constructed at Mandela's mansion to accommodate VIPs
• But there is apparently insufficient room for many relatives

  

Mr Mandela, who died aged 95, was described as one of the most iconic world leaders in history

It is what he would have wished. But, sadly, it isn’t going to happen. For though the huge ‘marquee’ constructed in the grounds of Mandela’s mansion will accommodate 4,500 VIP guests, among them Prince Charles, there is apparently insufficient room for many relatives.

Orthodox Missionary in Africa celebrates its 50th anniversary

 

The Pope (Patriarch) Theodore II of Alexandria and All Africa has congratulated the Orthodox Missionary Brotherhood, which was founded in 1963, on its "golden" anniversary, thanking it for its self-sacrificing work that now embraces the whole continent.

BREAKING>> 450,000 Christians Flee From Islam Extremist Attacks in Africa - Obama is silent on the slaughter of Africans. Why?

 

 

 The United Nations is demanding immediate support for the Central African Republic (CAR) during a very difficult period. Apparently over 450,000 people have fled their homes after the Muslim dominated Seleka took power and began persecuting Christians irrespective of the alleged government of national unity during the transitional period.

Egyptian police fire tear gas to disperse protest over detentions

   

Egyptian security forces have fired volleys of tear gas and used batons to disperse stone-throwing protesters in central Cairo denouncing a series of arrests connected to a new law against street demonstrations.

BREAKING NEWS>> 31 killed in attack on anti-militia protesters in Libya capital

LIBYAN MILITIAMEN OPENED fire yesterday on white-flag-waving protesters demanding their disbandment, killing at least 31 people and wounding more than 200 in a barrage of heavy machine gun and rocket-propelled grenade fire.

Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zidan blamed the protesters and the militia alike for the violence, though witnesses said they saw no protesters carrying weapons ahead of the shooting yesterday afternoon.

Egyptian Christians to be allowed to build Churches without permit of president

 

Copts will be able to build their churches in Egypt freely and will not have to wait a long time for the president's permit. The rule was passed last week in Cairo by the Committee of 50, the assembly which edits alterations of the constitution adopted by Islamists in 2012.

Tracing the Roots of the Greek Orthodox Church in Uganda

 

In the dusty neighborhoods of Namungoona on the outskirts of  Kampala, stands St Nicholas Orthodox Cathedral. The  57-year-old house of worship is the Metropolia (main church) of  the Orthodox faith in Uganda. This sanctuary which also  accommodates a hospital and a school has transformed the  hilly village drawing admiration from residents.

Apostle to Zaire: The Life and Legacy of Blessed Father Cosmas of Grigoriou

In every generation there are those few exceptional souls who rise out of the conventionality of social life to become pathfinders to the catholicity and otherworldliness of Christianity. Heroic and uncompromising, they imitate Abraham and become exiles and martyrs for Christ, following Him with loving exactness and mountain-moving faith. They “hate their life in this world” in order to keep it—and that of their neighbor’s—for eternity; and to successive generations they become models to imitate, witnessing, long after their departure, to the honour the Father bestows on those who serve Him.

Such a one was blessed Father Cosmas of Grigoriou, enlightener of Zaire.

A Model of Mission Work in this Age of Antichrist 

 

From as early as eighteen years of age he received from God the call to work in His mission field. Possessed of a dynamic personality that “was inspired by a burning love for Christ, he did not want to live a conventional Christian life nor to be limited to some usual ecclesiastical career and service. He longed to offer himself entirely to God and his fellow man.”

Ethiopia: The rock churches 'built by angels' - the Jerusalem of Ethiopia

Lalibela, Ethiopia - It's 4 o'clock on a Sunday morning when a trail of figures dressed in white emerges from the deep darkness. Quietly, the summoned crowd makes its way down a cluster of ancient structures as the slow beat from traditional skin drums beckons.

 
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Secrets of Ethiopia's ancient "church forests" - Into the Forests of Gondar (PHOTOS)

In a faraway land, in a province named South Gondar, the arid landscape is dotted with ancient Orthodox Christian Tewahedo churches. Forests encircle these churches—hundreds of green spots visible in satellite photos—and they are about the only stands of trees surviving after the Amhara people expanded their agricultural fields by cutting down more than 95 percent of the old forest for fuel, crops, and grazing.

 

 

A scenario out of J.R.R. Tolkien? An imaginary land in the game Myst? 

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AFRICA: Islamic group Boko Haram Kills Nigerian Church Leader

Boko Haram terrorists are believed responsible for the murder of a popular Pentecostal pastor in Nigeria. Faye Pama was the Secretary of the Christian Association of Nigeria, North East zone.

Stefanos Foundation Director Mark Lipdo said Pastor Faye was killed in Borno state Tuesday afternoon.

"Gunmen climbed his fence and got into his house and shot him down... You know the sect says they are out for Christians. Being in that position and being so vocal, he must have been a very marked man," Lipdo said.

Faye had several college-aged children and one in secondary school. Lipdo asked that Christians pray for the pastors widow and children, and for Nigerian Christians who are living under intense persecution.

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Tshwane, South Africa: 8-year-old boy marries 61-year-old Woman (VIDEO)

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South Africa: At least 28% of South African schoolgirls are HIV positive compared with 4% of boys because "sugar daddies" are exploiting them

At least 28% of South African schoolgirls are HIV positive compared with 4% of boys because "sugar daddies" are exploiting them, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has said.

He said 94,000 schoolgirls also fell pregnant in 2011, and 77,000 had abortions at state facilities, The Sowetan newspaper reports.

About 10% of South Africans are living with HIV, official statistics show.

Mr Motsoaledi has been widely praised for his efforts to curb the disease.

South Africa has run the world's largest anti-retroviral (ARV) programme since President Jacob Zuma appointed him health minister in 2009.

The number of HIV-positive people receiving life-saving ARV drugs more than doubled from 678,500 to 1.5 million after he took office, according to official statistics.

The government of former President Thabo Mbeki, who questioned the link between HIV and Aids, had argued it could not afford to roll out this treatment to all the South Africans who needed it.

LIBYA, AFRICA: Libya arrests 4 foreigners suspected of trying to spread Christianity in Muslim nation

 

TRIPOLI, Libya — Four foreigners were arrested in Libya on suspicion of distributing books about Christianity and proselytizing, a Libyan police spokesman said on Saturday.

Police spokesman Hussein bin Hamid said the suspects were from South Africa, Egypt and South Korea, and one held both Swedish and U.S. nationality. The Swedish Foreign Ministry confirmed that a dual national Swedish-American citizen was arrested while traveling on a U.S. passport. The U.S. Embassy in Libya declined comment.

The four were arrested in the eastern city of Benghazi on Tuesday and are under investigation for printing and distributing books that proselytize Christianity. Police said they found 45,000 books in their possession and that another 25,000 have already been distributed. Spreading Christianity is a crime in the predominantly Muslim North African county.

TUNISIA: Teargas as thousands protest top opposition leader assassination in Tunisia (VIDEO)

In Tunis thousands of people flooded the central Habib Bourguiba Avenue, close to the tree-lined boulevard, where violent anti-government protests were raging two years ago, when the so-called Arab Sprig was ignited.

Flocking to the Interior Ministry office, protesters were chanting "The people want the fall of the regime!"

Security forces cordoned off the area.

As an ambulance carrying Belaid's body was driven in front of the ministry, hundreds of mourners crowded around the vehicle.

Calls for a second revolution were heard from the crowd. The protesters were chanting “We are all Chokri,” “O Chokri, O martyr, we will follow your path," and “Terrorism, bullets, Tunisians are fearless”.

Police responded to mass gathering in Tunis with teargas and warning shots. There have also been reports that an ambulance was teargased.

Further protests have erupted in more than 12 towns and cities across Tunisia.