Interparliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy 2018 in Cairo // الجمعية البرلمانية حول الأرثوذكسية 2018 بالقاهرة

The Speech of the Patriarch of Alexandria & all Africa Theodoros II

خطاب بطريرك الاسكندرية وكل افريقيا ثيودوروس الثاني

Ελληνική Κοινότητα Καΐρου

The site of the Interparliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy
 

موقع الجمعية البرلمانية الدولية حول الأرثوذكسية

 

 

"Members of the IAO adopt a hospital room in Sierra Leone ..." (text in Greek)

 

"يتبنى أعضاء الجمعية البرلمانية الأرثوذكسية غرفة مستشفى في سيراليون ..." (النص باللغة اليونانية)

 

Interparliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy & Pan-African Parliament

Orthodox Metropolis of Zambia and Malawi

5th Ordinary Session of the Fourth Parliament, in PAP Headquarters in Midrand, South Africa.October 2017

PRESIDENT OF THE PAN-AFRICAN PARLIAMENT H.E HON ROGER NKODO DANG RECEIVES FOR AN OFFICIAL MEETING HIS H.E ARCHBISHOP IOANNIS OF ZAMBIA AND MALAWI

His H.E. Archbishop Ioannis of Zambia and Malawi in his capacity as liaison between the Interparliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy (IAO) The Interparliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy for the past 24 years, has sought to contribute towards consolidation of positions, views and policies and the interpretation of social affairs, which have as their starting point, promotion of mutual understanding and peace through inter-religious dialogue and positive determination of relations between politics and religions and the Pan-African Parliament (PAP is an instituation who includes 53 countrie of the African continent), met with the President of the Pan-African Parliament, in the framework of the 5th Regular Assembly of the 4th Session of the Parliament.



H.E. Archbishop Ioannis conveyed the greetings of His Beatitude, Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, Theodore II, for the benefit of the Assembly's work, as well as the warm greetings of the President of the General Assembly of the Hellenic Federation of Sergey Popov (Member of the Council of the Federal Assembly of Russia) and the Secretary-General Dr. Andreas Michailidis (Member of the Greek Parliament).
The two officials discussed various issues including.
H.E. Archbishop Ioannis subsequently informed the President of the results and the decisions of the annual General Assembly of the IAO held in Rome at the premises of the Italian Parliament and H.E. Archbishop Ioannis presented a letter of invitation, from Secretary General of the IAO, for his participation, both at the World Parliamentary Conference, to be held on 26-27 March 2018, Lebanese Parliament, on a subject that will refer to the interparliamentary dialogue between Christians and Muslims and the need to protect Christians in the wider Middle East region, as well as for the celebrations of the 25th anniversary of the IAO, to be held in Athens.

Also, H.E. invited the President of the Pan-African Parliament, H.E Hon. Roger Nkodo Dang to the meeting in Lusaka, Zambia, on the premises of Parliament, under the auspices of H.E Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa. Theodoros II,with the participation of members of the IAO and PAP.
The subject of the meeting's debates will be the dialogue of cultures, the role of monotheistic religions in the fight against terrorism and peaceful co-existence in Africa, emphasizing the need for reconciliation, mutual understanding and cooperation for peace and the protection of the weak among the great monotheistic religions.
The decision to open a permanent dialogue between cultures ,the engagement revolved around igniting interreligious dialogue in Africa as a means to promote peace, harmony and security,was taken at an earlier meeting between His Beatitude Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa.Theodore II and the President of the Pan-African Parliament. H.E Hon. Roger Nkodo Dang.

See also

The Orthodox African Church (Patriarchate of Alexandria) denounces the exploitation of Africa by contemporary colonialists
Reconciliation On Social Justice: The Consequences of Low Aim
Tales from Dystopia XXI: Capitalism and alcoholism (a voice from South Africa)
Grace and “the Inverted Pyramid”  

Orthodox Mission in Tropical Africa (& the Decolonization of Africa)
African Initiated Churches in Search of Orthodoxy...
How “White” is the Orthodox Church?
Ancient Christian faith (Orthodox Church) in Africa
LIVE, BEYOND THE LIMITS!
Eight principal areas of convergence between African spirituality and Ancient Christianity  
 
The Orthodox Church in Zambia & Malawi
Orthodox Zambia
Orthodox Malawi

International icon painting competition with the title “THE RESURRECTION OF JESUS CHRIST”

Ανοιχτή προκήρυξη του διεθνούς διαγωνισμού εικονογραφικής τέχνης με θέμα:

«Η ΑΝΑΣΤΑΣΗ ΤΟΥ ΙΗΣΟΥ»

Открытое приглашение к участию в международном иконографическом конкурсе на тему:

«Воскресение Иисуса Христа»

دعوة  مفتوحة

للمسابقة الدولية  لفن رسم الأيقونات  وموضوعها :

" قيامة يسوع المسيح "

 

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The Interparliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy (I.A.O.) (www.eiao.org) is an interparliamentary body, set up upon the initiative of the Hellenic Parliament. The IAO is comprised of Official Parliamentary Delegations from Albania, Armenia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Georgia, Greece, Estonia, Croatia, Kazakhstan, Cyprus, Latvia, Belarus, Moldavia, Ukraine, Poland, Rumania, Russian Federation, Serbia, Montenegro, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, occasionally Lithuania, Finland, groups of MPs and individual MPs from: Egypt, Ethiopia, Argentina, Australia, USA, Canada, Congo, Mozambique, Uganda, Sudan, and Chile. 

 

تشارك فى الجمعية البرلمانية للأرثوذكسية وفود برلمانية رسمية من : ألبانيا، أرمينيا ، البوسنة والهرسك ، بلغاريا، چورچيا ، اليونان ، إستونيا ، كرواتيا ، كازاخستان ، قبرص ، لاتڤيا ، روسيا البيضاء ، مولداڤيا ، أوكرانيا ، بولندا ، رومانيا ، روسيا الإتحادية ، صربيا ، الجبل الأسود ، الأردن ، لبنان ، سوريا ، فلسطين وأحياناً ليتوانيا ، فنلندا ومجموعات من البرلمانيين وبرلمانيين منفردين من : مصر ، إثيوبيا ، الأرچنتين ، أستراليا ، الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية ، كندا ، الكونغو ، موزمبيق ، أوغندا، السودان وشيلى 

Assembleia Internacional Ortodoxa - Interparliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy (I.A.O.)

 

Orthodox Mozambique

 

Assembleia Internacional Ortodoxa é um grupo de parlamentares de diversos países do mundo. Estes parlamentares, são parlamentares em seus países de origem e devem fazer parte da fé Cristã Ortodoxa. O objectivo da organização é representar a ortodoxia a nível político dentro dos países de todo mundo

The Interparliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy (I.A.O.) is a group of parliamentarians from various countries around the world. These parliamentarians are parliamentarians in their home country and must be part of the Christian Orthodox Faith.

The purpose of the organisation is to represent Othodoxy on a political level within European and African Countries.

The Official Website is here.

History (from here)

 

The Interparliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy (I.A.O.) is an interparliamentary body, set up upon the initiative of the Hellenic Parliament.
Here factsheet with information concerning the character of the IAO and relevant data: the philosophy, objectives, its rules and the turning point of the organization.

Background of the I.A.O.

The fundamental basis of the I.A.O. is expressed in the Manifesto of Participants of the Conference convened by the Hellenic Parliament in Halkidiki, Greece, on the subject: ‘Orthodoxy in the New European Reality’. According to this, Orthodoxy in its social, historical and spiritual sense constitutes a common historical cultural tradition and religious expression for approximately half of the population of Europe.
In a context of historical changes in progress throughout Europe (the fall of the communist regimes in Central Eastern Europe, the Maastricht Treaty in Western Europe) personalities
from Europe, who participated in the 1993 Conference held by the Hellenic Parliament, detected the need for the presence of Orthodoxy, as a common cultural expression of a large number of European citizens, in the shaping of contemporary Europe. Thus, the joint cultural reference of Orthodoxy was sought through the I.A.O., with the participation of Orthodox in faith deputies from: Albania, Armenia, Belarus, Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Greece, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Romania, the Federation of Russia, Serbia, Montenegro, Slovakia and Ukraine, as well as, groups of Members of Parliaments from: Australia, Asia, Africa and the U.S.A.

Turning Point

The verification that the majority of political and social problems, the European continent is facing, are actually problems of the whole world, the need to seek interpretations and answers based on the people’s common cultural tradition, the appearance of new technologies, the phenomenon of globalization of the economy, led the I.A.O. to the decision to surpass the borders of the European continent and contact parliamentarians throughout the world, Christian Orthodox in faith, with the aim of joining our common cultural aspect, that of religion, as the meeting point in the participation of structuring a contemporary complex reality.
To this end and according to article 2, paragraph b. of the Founding Act, parliamentary delegations or groups of Members of Parliaments from other European countries or respectively from non-European countries, are able to participate in the General Assembly. In the General Assembly of 2001 groups of Members of Parliament from Australia, Asia, Africa and the U.S.A. participated and was decided the European Interparliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy (E.I.A.O.) to be called from then on Interparliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy (I.A.O.).
During the I.A.O. General Assembly in Kiev, Ukraine, in June 2004, it was decided to seek ways of cooperation with the Parliamentary Union of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference Member States (P.U.I.C.).
Following correspondence exchanged between the two parliamentary organizations, a meeting was held in Athens on March 22, 2005 where a draft co-operation agreement was initialed by the Secretary General of each contracting organization.