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[News] Egyptian Muslims Serve As Human Shields For Coptic Christmas Services Egypt's Muslim community followed through on their promise to support the country's embattled Christian population as they celebrated their Christmas Eve masses on Thursday night.

[News] Russian President Dimitry Medvedev gives a Christmas message Russian President Dimitry Medvedev congratulated all Orthodox Christians and citizens of Russia with the feast of Christ's Nativity, reports the Presidential website.

[News] DECR Chairman is awarded by the Assembly of Georgian Peoples On 25 December 2010, a festive reception to celebrate Christmas and the upcoming New Year took place at the Marriott Grand Hotel in Moscow.

[News] Sunday Services held in Coptic church in Alexandria for first time since bombing On January 2, 2010, in the Coptic Church of All Saints, Alexandria, located in the Sidi-Bishr region, the first church service was held after the terrorist act committed following the New Year’s service.

[News] The Christmas Epistle of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia appears in 20 different languages His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia has addressed his traditional Christmas Epistle to the archpastors, pastors, monastics, and all the faithful of the Russian Orthodox Church.

[News] Bombs targeting Christian homes in Baghdad killed two people and wounded more than a dozen Thursday night It was another wave of attacks against the small Christian population which is still shaken from the massacre in October that left dozens of worshippers dead and forced thousands to flee the country.

[News] The head of the Russian Orthodox Church congratulated Pope Benedict XVI and Western believers on Christmas.

[News] Turkish Deputy PM Bulent Arinc Visits Phanar Turkey says it is considering a demand by the Istanbul-based Orthodox Patriarchate for the reopening of a seminary that trained generations of Ecumenical Patriarchs.

[News] New hierarch to administer Russian parishes in Western Europe The Holy Synod at its Friday session appointed new head of the Korsun Diocese that unites parishes of the Moscow Patriarchate in Italy, Spain, France and Switzerland.

[News] Majority of Russians embrace Christmas despite communist past Over 80 percent of Russians celebrate Christmas and a third see themselves as religious 20 years after the end of communism and its atheist ethos, according to a Deutsche Welle poll.

[News] EPP condemns sacrilege of church closure on Christmas day in occupied Cypress European People's Party (EPP) President Wilfried Martens, condemned today in Brussels the evacuation and sealing-off of the church in Rizokarpaso village by the occupying forces on Christmas Day.

[News] Record number of pilgrims to Jordan in 2010 Over 210,000 pilgrims visited Jordan in 2010 in order to be baptized at the place where Jesus Christ was baptized in the River Jordan, reports the Greek Orthodox new agency, Romfea.