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"The protesters also tried to block traffic, namely along the outskirts of the Mea Shearim ultra-Orthodox neighbourhood," Rosenfeld said, adding that police prevented them from gathering near the municipality building.

A joint letter signed by five Bulgarian Catholic and Protestant leaders has denounced a June 27 gay pride march in Sofia.

According to a published report, a campaign adviser to state Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias helped a politically connected applicant get in to the University of Illinois.

It sounds like the beginning of a joke," writes The Guardian . "What do you get when you put a Muslim imam, a Greek Orthodox priest, a rabbi, a Buddhist monk and 10 atheists in the same room?" I initially thought the answer had something to do with light bulbs, but it turns out this is part of the premise of a new Turkish game show: Viewers of ...

The seventy-sixth meeting of the North American Orthodox-Catholic Theological Consultation took place at St.

Rick Wills can be reached via e-mail or at 412-320-7944. Not exactly from the cyber generation himself, the new 67-year-old Orthodox hierarch of the Archdiocese of Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania opened a Facebook page a year ago.

June 28, 4:05 PM Comment RSS Validation shows up in a variety of forms. Technically, it's a sign of insecurity that we need others to be interested in our own opinions to verify their legitimacy, but that very thing has taken place in the past few weeks.

A Jew for Jesus who demanded kashrut supervision from the Chief Rabbinate won a Supreme Court decision on Monday likely to spark another confrontation between the nation's highest legal arbiter and the Orthodox rabbinical establishment.

ORTHODOX demonstrators, angry over the Jerusalem municipality decision to open a car park on Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath, closed a number of streets yesterday, on the third consecutive day of religious protests in Israel's capital.

VATICAN CITY, JUNE 28, 2009 .- Benedict XVI welcomed a delegation sent by the Orthodox patriarch of Constantinople, Bartholomew I, to celebrate with the Pope the solemnity of Sts.

Date : Sun, 28 Jun 2009 22:26:36 PDT Hurriyet, Turkey June 28 2009 Turkey to reopen Orthodox school shut 38 years ago: report ANKARA - Turkey is planning to re-open a Greek Orthodox seminary that was shut down nearly four decades ago, Turkeys culture minister was quoted as saying Sunday.

This feast day commemorates the martyrdom of the two great Apostles, assigned by tradition to the same day of June in the year 67.

Ultra-Orthodox Jews take part in a protest against the opening of a parking lot during the sabbath in Jerusalem June 27, 2009.

Modern Orthodox rabbis have organized to violate the law to help converts who are unable to marry because they are not recognized by haredi chief rabbis of cities.

IN MOST cities, the location and opening hours of a car park would have no existential meaning.

A gay pride parade in Jerusalem ended peacefully on Thursday but the planned opening of a municipal parking lot on the Jewish sabbath will test the delicate balance between religious and secular Jews in the city.

Patriarch Abune Paulos of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church announced in Rome his plans to reveal the Ark of the Covenant to the world .

Court marshals are putting their faith in the Russian Orthodox Church to ease their workload as a growing number of people default on debts amid the economic crisis.

After weeks of anxious preparations, thousands gathered in Jerusalem on Thursday for the annual pride march.

BEDFORD, Texas -- The spiritual leader of the Orthodox Church in America offered to begin talks aimed at full communion with the new Anglican Church in North America, then named a series of obstacles whose removal could tear apart the hard-won unity among the 100,000 theological conservatives who broke from the Episcopal Church and the Anglican ...