Pontifical Oriental Institute http://www.pontificalorientalinstitute.com Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:50:41 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.pontificalorientalinstitute.com/images/M_images/joomla_rss.png http://www.pontificalorientalinstitute.com Pontifical Oriental Institute http://www.pontificalorientalinstitute.com/news/recent-news-and-events-at-poi/schedule-changes-second-semester.html Students are asked to take note of the following schedule changes for the Second Semester academic year 2009-10 (click read more) News - Recent News and Events at POI Thu, 11 Feb 2010 13:03:13 +0100 http://www.pontificalorientalinstitute.com/news/recent-news-and-events-at-poi/opening-day-2010-11.html The next academic year 2010-2011 will commence at an earlier date than in previous years. All are asked to take note of opening day on Wednesday, October 6, 2010. For further information regarding enrollment in the upcoming year, contact the General Secretary at segreteria@pontificio-orientale.com (mailto:segreteria@pontificio-orientale.com) or +39 06.447.41.70. News - Recent News and Events at POI Thu, 11 Feb 2010 13:21:09 +0100 http://www.pontificalorientalinstitute.com/news/recent-news-and-events-at-poi/ordo-accademico-2009-10.html Download the new Student Handbook for the accademic year 2009-10 testo-ordo-pio-2009-2010 836.12 Kb News - Recent News and Events at POI Sat, 31 Oct 2009 12:15:24 +0100 http://www.pontificalorientalinstitute.com/news/recent-news-and-events-at-poi/orient-church-bookshop.html October 28th is the grand opening of the new Orient Christian Bookshop at the Pontifical Oriental Institute. Come and see the wide selection of books and religious items such as icons, incence, and much more! News - Recent News and Events at POI Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:59:31 +0100 http://www.pontificalorientalinstitute.com/gallery-and-multimedia/documentaries-&-video-clips/a-glimpse-into-90-years-of-history.html AhOKDIVYQiU Gallery and Multimedia - Documentaries & Video Clips Mon, 04 May 2009 02:35:13 +0100 http://www.pontificalorientalinstitute.com/news/catholic-world/pope-meets-aram-i.html Your Holiness, With heartfelt affection in the Lord I greet you and the distinguished members of your delegation on the occasion of your visit to the Church of Rome. Our meeting today stands in continuity with the visit which you made to my beloved predecessor Pope John Paul ii in January 1997, and with the many other contacts and mutual visits which, by God's grace, have led in recent years to closer relations between the Catholic Church and the Armenian Apostolic Church. News - Catholic World Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:36:45 +0100 http://www.pontificalorientalinstitute.com/news/catholic-world/social-week-of-france-the-inter-religius-declaration.html (Daniele Rocchi, SIR's correspondent in Lyons) We, as the representatives of the monotheistic religions, feel responsible for speaking together . This is the beginning of the inter-religious declaration, one of the fruits of the Social Week of France, which was focussed on the subject: Religions, a hope or a threat for our societies? and ended in Lyons yesterday. The document, signed by Christians, Jews and Muslims, states: The principle of separating the political and the religious is for us a premise and a condition for any serene religious and political experience. But this premise is not mere neutrality, it must be supported by a respectful attitude, by the wish to get to know and recognise the other, even if we do not share the same faith and the same beliefs . The task that is so urgent now, it goes on, is to multiply dialogue in any place between believers as well as dialogue with our non-believing brothers . In this respect, without boasting and without qualms , we invite you to draw from the declaration the meaning that many of our contemporaries are looking for, when confronted by multiple causes for... News - Catholic World Mon, 24 Nov 2008 11:20:27 +0100 http://www.pontificalorientalinstitute.com/news/catholic-world/the-armenian-catholicos-visiting-rome-and-the-vatican.html The Catholicos of Cilicia of the Armenians, Aram I, will be visiting Rome and the Vatican from November 23rd to 27th. The important ecumenical event was reported today by the Vatican radio station, relaying an official release. On November 24th, reads the release, the Armenian delegation will stop and pray on the grave of John Paul II in Saint Peter's, then it will stop in Largo San Gregorio l'Illuminatore to pay tribute to Saint Gregory the Enlightener, considered the apostle of the apostolic Armenian Church. Then, soon after that, Benedict XVI and the Catholicos will meet in the Apostolic Palace, in a spirit of brotherhood and friendliness, stopping and prayer together at the Chapel of Redemptoris Mater . Also on November 24th, the Patriarch of the Armenian Church will be received by the cardinal archpriest of the Basilica di San Paolo fuori le Mura, Andrea Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo, for a tour of the holy places and to attend a short liturgy. News - Catholic World Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:04:37 +0100 http://www.pontificalorientalinstitute.com/news/catholic-world/sant-egidio-peace-meeting-draws-orthodox.html Orthodox, Catholics and people of other faiths are gathered together on the island of Cyprus to pray for a civilization of peace. The International Meeting of Prayer for Peace, traditionally sponsored by the Catholic lay Sant'Egidio Community, and this year cosponsored by the Orthodox Church of Cyprus, began today and ends Tuesday. This 22nd meeting is on The Civilization of Peace: Faiths and Cultures in Dialogue. These annual international meetings are part of the heritage of the World Day of Prayer for Peace convened in Assisi by Pope John Paul II on Oct. 27, 1986. Orthodox Archbishop Chrysostomos II of New Justiniana and All Cyprus prayed together at Mass on Saturday evening with Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, prefect of the Congregation for Eastern Churches. News - Catholic World Mon, 17 Nov 2008 12:00:08 +0100 http://www.pontificalorientalinstitute.com/news/catholic-world/catholic-muslim-forum-overcome-prejudices-of-the-past.html This morning in the Vatican, Benedict XVI received participants in the First Seminar of the Catholic-Muslim Forum. The event has been organised by the Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Dialogue and by the 138 Muslim representatives who, on 13 October 2007, sent an open letter to the Pope and to other heads of Christian Churches and ecclesial Communities. Dear Friends, I am pleased to receive you this morning and I greet all of you most cordially. I thank especially Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran as well as Shaykh Mustafa Cerić and Mr Seyyed Hossein Nasr for their words. Our meeting takes place at the conclusion of the important Seminar organized by the Catholic-Muslim Forum established between the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue and representatives of the 138 Muslim leaders who signed the Open Letter to Christian leaders of 13 October 2007. This gathering is a clear sign of our mutual esteem and our desire to listen respectfully to one another. I can assure you that I have prayerfully followed the progress of your meeting, conscious that it represents one more step along the way towards greater understanding between Muslims and Christians within the framework of other regular encounters which the Holy See... News - Catholic World Thu, 06 Nov 2008 18:37:36 +0100