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US plans to return an ambassador to Damascus UPI, Dec 3 Syrian President Bashar Assad stated that Washington has begun to send “clear signals” to Damascus with plans to return a U.S. ambassador to Syria in early 2009. U.S. President-elect Barack Obama’s choice of Hillary Clinton as secretary of state should help build peace in the Middle East, an [...]
From our Synod's website and the Treasury of Daily Prayer : John (ca. 675–749) is known as the great compiler and summarizer of the orthodox faith and the last great Greek theologian. Born in Damascus, John gave up an influential position in the Islamic court to devote himself to the Christian faith. Around 716 he entered a monastery outside of Jerusalem and was ordained a priest. When the Byzantine...
Confirm our minds, O Lord, in the mysteries of the true faith, set forth with power by your servant John of Damascus; that we, with him, confessing Jesus to be true God and true Man, and singing the praises of the risen Lord, may, by the power of the resurrection, attain to eternal joy; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen....
Beirut- Lebanon's Democratic Gathering leader MP Walid Jumblat said Wednesday that reconciliation with Damascus is not possible, stressing that the ruling March 14 coalition wants to win the 2009 parliamentary elections to avoid a return to Syrian tutelage. "Reconciliation with the Syrian regime is impossible," Jumblatt said in an interview with Future TV late Wednesday, adding that March 14 did not...
Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad told a Lebanese delegation visiting Damascus that Syria had succeeded in overcoming all attempts to harm it, as well as overcoming the pressures on it since the U.S. invasion of Iraq. He said, "The Americans even ... December 3, 2008, 2:30 pm
Yesterday, some 2,000 Iraqi refugees demonstrated in Damascus against the U.S.-Iraq security pact. The pact was approved by the Iraqi parliament on November 27. Source: Al-Quds Al-Arabi, London, December 3, ... December 3, 2008, 12:05 pm
A Lebanese Christian leader who fought a “war of liberation” against Syrian troops in Lebanon has met Syria’s President Bashar Assad in Damascus. Michel Aoun is also expected to meet senior Syrian officials and Christian leaders during his five-day visit. As acting prime minister and military commander in 1989, General Aoun fought against Syrian troops [...]
63 BC - Cicero reads the last of his Catiline Orations . 0663 - Fourth Council of Toledo . 0749 - Saint John of Damascus dies. Theologian. 0771 - Charlemagne becomes the sole King of the Franks after the death of his brother Carloman . 1082 - Ramon Berenguer II, Count of Barcelona is assassinated. 1355 - John III, Duke of Brabant dies (b. 1300). 1360 - The French Franc is created. 1377 - Jianwen Emperor...
There is a more urgent priority for Israel than reaching a deal with the Palestinians and Syrians and that is remaining a state that is governed by laws and democratic institutions. The principle threat to Israel’s democratic institutions doesn’t come from Tehran, or Damascus or Gaza. It comes from the religiofascist settler hordes that [...]
Beirut- Lebanese Forces leader Dr. Samir Geagea criticized Change and Reform Bloc leader MP Michel Aoun for seeking to clear Lebanon's conscience in Damascus prior to settling Lebanon's differences with Syria.
Beirut / Damascus- A coalition of Palestinian forces supported by Syria in Lebanon viewed the initial approval by the Lebanese cabinet to change the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) bureau to an embassy of Palestine
Psalm 18: 1-50, Isa 2:12-22, 1 Thes 3: 1-13. Luke 20: 27-40 John of Damascus, Monk, Teacher of the Faith, c.749 and Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon, Founder of the Little Gidding Community, 1637 The Thessalonians Christians had come to faith as a direct result of the ministry of Paul, Silas, and Timothy. The church in Thessalonica was [...]
Saint John Damascene (also known as St. John of Damscus) was born In Damascus, Syria around 676 AD into a rich family and spent the early years of his adult life serving as the official representative of the Christian community to the Muslim Caliph. He later abandoned this political task to join the monastery of St. Sabas near Jerusalem where he became a priest and ultimately bishop. St. John Damascene...
AP DAMASCUS, Syria Hundreds of Syrian riot police ringed the shuttered and closed US Embassy in Damascus ahead of what is expected to be a mass demonstration in the Syrian capital to protest a deadly US raid near the Iraqi border. As Seen On TV BPA Safety Guide. By moving forward with the public facilities. Who had dubbed himself the Crossover Negro on his WRKO AM morning show, waived Miconazole clotrimazole...
