Priest Arrested in Plot to Poison Head of Georgian Church
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| February 13, 2017 | Associated Press
TBILISI, Georgia - Police in Georgia have detained a high-profile priest who is suspected of plotting to poison a senior cleric, prosecutors said on Monday. The announcement comes after well-respected Rustavi 2 television channel reported about an attempt to poison Patriarch Ilia, head of the Georgian Orthodox Church. Irakli Shotadze, chief prosecutor
in the former Soviet republic, told reporters on Monday that Father Georgi Mamaladze was arrested at the Tbilisi airport on Friday with cyanide in his suitcase. Mamaladze, chief of the property department of the Georgian Orthodox Church, was on his way to Germany where Ilia is undergoing hospital...
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Pope Presses Georgian Orthodox Agenda Despite Mass Absence
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Nicole Winfield and Misha Dzhindzhikhashvili ^
| 10/1/16 | AP
TBILISI, Georgia (AP) -- Pope Francis' efforts to improve relations with the Georgian Orthodox Church suffered a setback Saturday after the patriarchate decided at the last minute not to send an official delegation to his Mass and reminded the Orthodox faithful they cannot participate in Catholic services. Francis
still pressed on with his agenda, insisting that Catholics must never try to convert Orthodox and bowing in prayer alongside the Orthodox patriarch after they both lit a candle in the Orthodox cathedral. Francis called for the historical divisions that have "lacerated" Christianity to be healed through patience, trust and dialogue. "We...
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Georgian Church reassures believers—Pope's visit not to cross into ecumenism
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Pravoslavie ^
| 09-29-2016 | Pravoslavie
September 29, 2016 In response to some strong reactions among the clergy and faithful to the Pope's upcoming visit to the country of Georgia, Sept. 30-Oct. 2, which will include meeting with His Holiness Patriarch Ilia II, the Patriarchate has released a statement aimed at reassuring those concerned. "We
note that prayerful-sacramental communion between us and the Catholic church of Rome has been severed since medieval times and as long as there are dogmatic differences between us, according to Church law, Orthodox believers do not take part in their services," the statement reads. The release notes that Pope Francis'...
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Mastermind of Istanbul Airport Attack Had Been Georgian Informant, Official Says
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| 07.01.16 2:20 PM ET | Anna Nemtsova
IT'S A SMALL WORLD AFTER ALL07.01.16 2:20 PM ET Mastermind of Istanbul Airport Attack Had Been Georgian Informant, Official Says Akhmed Chatayev is blamed for planning the deadly attack in Turkey, and an official says he was on the government payroll before returning to jihad. ODESSA,
Ukraine — Sometimes the world of terror and counterterror is amazingly small. The day after at least 43 people were killed and more than 235 injured in a terrorist attack on Istanbul’s international airport, Turkish officials announced the arrest of the alleged mastermind behind the attack: Akhmed Chatayev, an ethnic Chechen from Russia who,...
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Georgian Church Decides not to Participate in Pan-Orthodox Council
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Interfax ^
| 6/10/16
Tbilisi, June 10, Interfax - The Georgian Orthodox Church will not participate in the Pan-Orthodox Council in Crete which is slated for June 16-27. "This
decision was adopted during today's session of the Holy Synod of the Georgian Orthodox Church in which the Catholicos-Patriarch Ilia II of All Georgia participated," the report of the Georgian Patriarchate said. Ilia II said in February that the Holy Synod rejected the document 'The relation of the Orthodox Church towards the rest of the Christian world' which was prepared for discussion at the Pan-Orthodox Council. The Synod also opposed a number of other documents...
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Georgian Orthodox Church Rejects Ecumenical Document for Worldwide Orthodox Council
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Catholic Culture ^
| 2/25/16
The Georgian Orthodox Church has rejected a document on ecumenism, prepared for the worldwide council of Orthodox leaders scheduled to take place in Crete in June. The rejection of the preparatory document by one of the world's fourteen autocephalous Orthodox churches poses the first serious challenge for the council's planners. A
key organizing principle for the council has been that any statement or document produced by the participants must have unanimous support. The opposition of the Georgian hiearchy also illustrates the deep suspicions about ecumenical work within some Orthodox circles. Patriarch Ilia II of Tbilisi, the leader of the Georgian...
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Former Georgian (Reaganite) Leader Saakashvili Gets Another Crack at the Russians...
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Reaganite Republican ^
| 02 June 2015 | Reaganite Republican
Takes Ukrainian citizenship, appointed Governor of Odessa region While it was pretty painful to watch the US-and-Israeli equipped and trained Georgian Armed Forces get their asses kicked by the Russians in 2008, the truth is that the greatly-outnumbered Georgians never stood a chance once the Kremlin decided to get militarily involved,
due to the fact that loyal US ally Tbilisi had all their best troops still in Iraq... The Georgian army was reduced to five brigades, nearly all light infantry, ditching practically all its armor and artillery in favor of a counterterrorism and counterinsurgency approach to warfare, which of course was what...
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About 600 US and Georgian troops hold joint exercises
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news.yahoo.com ^
| May 17, 2015 | ap
TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — About 600 U.S. and Georgian troops are conducting joint exercises aimed at training the armed forces of the former Soviet republic for participation in the NATO Response Force. Col. Michael Foster, commander of the U.S. 173rd Airborne Brigade, said the exercises are "an absolutely unique opportunity for us"
and "the way we are going to be fighting in the future."
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Georgian man stabs sister for not wearing hijab
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Democracy and Freedom Watch ^
| 10/1/2014
A man from Pankisi Gorge stabbed his sister in the chest with a knife for refusing to wear a hijab. The
brother, 35, inflicted 7 wounds on his 33 year old sister, a former police officer. Georgia’s Pankisi Gorge is located in the northeast of the country. The majority here are Kists, a subgroup of Chechens adhering to the Sunni branch of Islam. The wounded woman underwent emergency surgery at the local hospital. His brother was arrested and is under investigation for attempted murder. The stabbed woman worked for several years as a police officer at Duisi police station, but...
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Hagel Visits U.S. Marines, Georgian Troops Near Tbilisi
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defense.gov ^
| Sep 7, 2014 | Cheryl Pellerin
... Hagel called the Georgia-U.S. partnership a model for other partnerships and relationships that will be established in the future. “So
we build on the relationships we have now, what we've accomplished together, as we expand and build out to bring in more countries, this relationship is particularly important for that reason, among many reasons,” he added. Through a translator, Alasania said, “Briefly, I would like to add that every serviceman and woman in our country, including myself, defense minister, we are really proud to have a chance to train and fight side by side with the United States Marines.”
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