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[News] Eastern (Uniate) Bishops Underline Communion With Rome In an annual meeting, the Eastern Catholic (Uniate) bishops of Europe underlined their full communion with the Roman Catholic Church as part of the criteria of ecclesiology of the Churches.

[News] Archbishop: Iraqi Christians face 'premeditated ethnic cleansing' Life in Iraq isn't easy (and hasn't been for a while), but it's still rare to find community leaders imploring Iraqis to leave their home country. But that's exactly what Archbishop Athanasios Dawood of the Syriac Orthodox Church is doing.

[News] Orthodox church desecrated in Bishkek The St. Vladimir Orthodox Church was robbed in the Kyrgyzstan capital.

[News] Representatives of the Orthodox and Oriental Churches meet with United Bible Societies, Cyprus From November 2–5, 2010, a regular meeting of the preparatory committee of the Orthodox Church, the Oriental Churches, and the United Bibles Societies took place, reports the DECR Communication Center

[News] Town in Urals blessed from above by priest in hot air balloon An unusual service was celebrated in Kamensk-Uralsk. A hot air balloon carrying the dean of the Southern ecclesiastical region, mitered Archpriest John Agafonov, sailed in full priestly vestments across the sky over the city.

[News] The First Hierarch of the Russian Church Abroad Speaks at the Pastoral Conference of the Western American Diocese The First Hierarch of the Russian Church Abroad Speaks at the Pastoral Conference of the Western American Diocese

[News] Deputy Director General of UNESCO visited the Kyiv Caves Monastery Before the beginning of the International seminar "The role of religious communities in managing the objects of World Heritage, taking place on November 2-5 in Kyiv under the aegis of UNESCO, under the auspices of the president of Ukraine and with the support of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Ukraine, the meeting of Deputy Director General of UNESCO Francesco Bandarin with deputy chairman of the DECR of the UOC , His Grace Alexander, Bishop of Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyy was held.

[News] St. Vladimir relic recovered after theft in Edmonton An Orthodox church in Edmonton is celebrating the safe return of a 1,000-year-old skull fragment of St. Vladimir the Great.

[News] Iraqi Shiites rally in support of Christians Thousands of Iraqi Shiites held a rally in Baghdad on Saturday in support of Christians who have suffered at the hands of Al Qaeda militants lately.

[News] On National Unity Day, a pannikhida will be served for victims of revolution and civil war In the Moscow Church of the "Sign" in the Sheremetev Court on November 4, National Unity Day in Russia, a pannikhida (requiem) will be served in memory of those who died during the 1917 revolution, the civil war, and other tragedies in Russia during the twentieth century, reports Interfax – Religion.

[News] Metropolitan Jonah among US religious leaders to meet with President Obama His Beatitude, Metropolitan Jonah [first hierarch of the Orthodox Church in America], was among some two dozen US religious leaders who met with President Barack Obama here on Monday, November 1, 2010 “to speak for the millions of Americans struggling to find jobs, make their next rent or mortgage payment, and put food on the table,” according to a press release issued by the National Council of Churches [NCC].

[News] Archbishop Ionofan of Tulchinsk and Bratslavsk Visits the Synodal Residence of the Primate of the Russian Church Abroad On Monday, November 1, 2010, His Eminence Archbishop Ionafan of Tulchinsk and Bratslavsk arrived in New York.