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[RoGca.org] RoGca : Romanian Greek-Catholic Church responds to the intention ...: In that statement, the Romanian Orthodox Patriarchy said that the Greek-Catholic Church “intends to take in possession the Orthodox churches with the hope that the Orthodox believers will come with them as well,” and concluded that the Romanian Patriarchy would continue “to lobby to the Romanian authorities to adopt a law and practical solutions to resolve the patrimonial dispute between these two Romanian churches based on the current number of believers that each church has within the local community.”

[Impact Wire] Political Crisis in Romania Threatens the Catholic Minority ...: “If Romanian politicians pass the bill to let the Romanian Orthodox Church keep Greek-Catholic properties, it will threaten the entire concept of democracy in Romania. If a majority, any majority, in exchange for votes, can lobby for laws that violate the rights or take properties from a minority, then the rights and liberties of every person are in jeopardy,” concludes Fr.

[CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News] Catholic Culture : Latest Headlines : Romanian Catholics oppose ...: Romanian Catholics are organizing opposition to a move by the Romanian Orthodox Church to secure legislation that would prevent the return of church properties that were confiscated from Eastern-rite Catholics during the Communist era and handed over to Orthodox parishes. Orthodox leaders have proposed that the properties should be divided according to the number of registered Catholic and Orthodox believers.

[Romania News Watch] Romania News Watch: Romanian Orthodox to seize minority properties: Patriarch Abuna Paulos of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church spoke of need for social work but also addressing spiritual needs of Christians in Africa.The Orthodox Church argues that the Greek-Catholic properties should be split between these two Churches based on the “majority rules” principle: the religious group with most members should take or keep the properties from the one with fewer members.

[Christian Forums] Romanian Catholics and Orthodox square off for property ...: Romanian Catholics are organizing opposition to a move by the Romanian Orthodox Church to secure legislation that would prevent the return of church properties that were confiscated from Eastern-rite Catholics during the Communist era and handed over to Orthodox parishes. Orthodox leaders have proposed that the properties should be divided according to the number of registered Catholic and Orthodox believers.

[World News ,hot news, asia free, world] Orthodox Church Threatens the Catholic Minority in Romania | World ...: In other words, Romanian Orthodox minorities around the world receive help from the Catholic Church, but the Orthodox majority in Romania refuses to return the confiscated properties to the Greek-Catholics, even if the Greek-Catholic Church declared that the Orthodox communities can continue having their religious services in the Greek-Catholic churches.

[The Frosina Information Network Blog] The Frosina Information Network Blog: Albanians in Romania: A ...: The report was written by Giovanni de Marini Poli, an agent of the Imperial Councillor Pezzen who stated that "...the Albanians of Cernavoda and other neighboring villages having sent a petition to the Waivoda of Walachia that they wanted to come with their families and live in Walachia and abandon their home in Turkish lands. The Waivoda immediately agreed and soon afterwards 15,000 Albanians, with their belongings and beasts, crossed the Danube and came to live in Walachia..."The most important period of the Albanian community in Romania extended from the late 19th to the early years of the 20th century where, in 1844, the Albanian patriot Naum Veqillarxhi developed the first Albanian alphabet.

[FSRN - Headlines] Headlines for Wednesday, October 7, 2009 | FSRN: The cross was built in the 1930s as WAR memorial by the Veterans of Foreign Wars.  Former park employee Frank Buono filed the suit in 2001, after the Park Service denied a request to erect a Buddhist shrine near the cross.  Buono, himself a Roman Catholic, argued that having cross on federal property violates first amendment bans on the government’s endorsement of one religion over another.

[Romania News Watch] Romania News Watch: Greek-Catholics Ask U.S. Secretary of State ...: There were numerous disputes over churches that the Orthodox Church did not return to the Greek Catholic Church despite court orders to do so." Thus, on May 13, 2009, Father Chris Terhes, president of the Romanian Greek-Catholic Association, released a letter to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton requesting intervention with the Romanian government to end the persecution of Greek-Catholics, and restore human rights and religious liberties. In the letter, Fr.

[One Loving Heart Sets Another on Fire- St. Augustine] Political Crisis in Romania Threatens the Catholic Minority « One ...: With the collapse of the country’s governing coalition last week and the presidential election less than two months away, the Orthodox Church is pushing for members of the Romanian Parliament to pass a law that would grant the Orthodox Church permanent ownership of churches and other properties that were seized from the Greek-Catholic Church by the communist regime in 1948.

[Catholic Online > International > Europe] Greek-Catholics Ask U.S. Secretary of State to Help End Religious ...: … There were numerous disputes over churches that the Orthodox Church did not return to the Greek Catholic Church despite court orders to do so."[more] Thus, on May 13, 2009, Father Chris Terhes, president of the Romanian Greek-Catholic Association, released a letter to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton requesting intervention with the Romanian government to end the persecution of Greek-Catholics, and restore human rights and religious liberties. In the letter, Fr.

[Centurean2's Weblog] Whose Really To Blame For What Happened To Romanians In Belfast ...: After being moved into a leisure centre, where mattresses were spread out on indoor tennis courts and local people donated soup and sandwiches, the few Romanians who could speak English claimed that some of the attackers had been armed with guns, although the police later said they had no evidence to support this.

[Open House] Open House: Some narcissistic ramblings, with a small point: Both from personal experience and statistical evidence, I've found the Greeks intellectually curious, deeply religious (though not in the sweaty, repressed, fundamentalist way that the new atheists like to portray religion) and sceptical of their government.

[Breaking News] Police investigating attacks on Romanian families in Northern ...: Catholic cardinal: IRA dissidents shame IrelandDUBLIN ”” IRA splinter groups still plotting gun and bomb attacks in Northern Ireland are shaming the people of Ireland and betraying the memory of its patriot dead, the leader of the island's 4 million Catholics declared Wednesday. Cardinal Sean Brady denounced Irish Republican Army dissidents during a state memorial service in honor of the approximately 450 people killed during Dublin's 1916 Easter rebellion, a watershed event in Ireland's fight for independence from Britain.

[Catholic Light] Update: directives on Medjugorje - Catholic Light: We are gradually succeeding in distancing the unrecognized "apparitions" and "messages" from the parish church and from church property, and the appearances of the "seers" before or after Holy Mass. In that conversation I reminded you of having asked in 2006, and reconfirmed in 2009 from the altar, that "No priest who works canonically in this parish of Medjugorje or who is here temporarily, is authorized to present his private opinion, contrary to the official position of the Church on the "apparitions and messages", neither at the celebration of the sacraments, or during the regular acts of devotion, nor in the Catholic media." (homily attached).

[Breaking News] Most Romanians intimidated in Belfast heading home; church that ...: Catholics hurl petrol bombs at Belfast policeBELFAST, Northern Ireland ”” Militant Catholics are hurling firebombs, fireworks and other makeshift weapons at Northern Ireland police in opposition to a Protestant parade passing through the bitterly divided north side of Belfast. An Associated Press reporter has witnessed the crowd in the hard-line Catholic district of Ardoyne throw about a half-dozen Molotov cocktails at riot police.

[Eirenikon] Romanian Orthodox-Catholic intercommunion « Eirenikon: In other Romanian Catholic news, De unione ecclesiarum reports that Holy Resurrection Monastery in Newberry Springs, California, has decided to move to a new property in western New Jersey. May God bless and prosper the monks.

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