Khristianstvo na blizhnem Vostoke

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Authors: Pavel V. Bochkov

The article deals with the history of the emergence of the little-known non-canonical Orthodox group «Palestinian Orthodox Church», erecting the lines of its apostolic succession from both the Greek old-age schism and the Polish old Catholic. The life path and non-canonical religious activity of the founder of this «archbishop» group, Ramzi Musallam, is considered, which has repeatedly replaced its confessional affiliation throughout its activities.

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Authors: Besik Khurtsilava

The Georgian monasteries of the type of Kinobium existed in the suburbs of Jerusalem (Bi'r el-Qutt, Umm Laisun, Beit Safafa) even in the Byzantine period. These monasteries had their own land plots where the monks themselves were alengaged in agricultural activities. Later, after the reconstruction of the Holy Cross Monastery in the second half of the 11th century, in Arabic documents we can already see the names of some of the lands used by the inhabitants of this monastery, the main center of Georgian monasticism at that time: al-Jusur al-Thalatha and al-Marj. In the possession of this monastery also included some Palestinian villages, such as al-Maliha (Malha), Katamun, Jaljala, Dayr Musa, Dayr K'akul. The location of the last two villages was unknown. The author of the article investigating this problem came to the conclusion that the village of Dayr Musa was located on the site of the ruins still known as Khirbat Dayr Musa near the Palestinian city of Surif, and the village of Dayr Ka'kul can be identified with the ruins of Khirbat K'akul located 5 km to the north from Jerusalem. This article also covers local servants of the Holy Cross monastery. Among other things, on the basis of materials gathered in a circle of Palestinians, the author of the article clarifies those family clans (Farhan, al-Fisasi) that inherited from their ancestors the duty of the guards of the Holy Cross monastery; The article also provides information about the latest representatives from this category of the people etc.

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Authors: Hilarion (Dani) Bechara

At the beginning of the twentieth century. In the Arab East there have been many significant political events that influenced the historical development of the region. Changes occurred at all levels, and their main source was the Ottoman state that dominated the territory. A significant part of the inhabitants of the Arab East adhered to the Christian faith. In particular, the Orthodox Christians discussed in this article were under the jurisdiction of the Patriarch of Antioch, which the Patriarchate of Constantinople took over at that time. Thanks to the activity of European states in the region, who sought to protect the rights of Christians living and temporarily staying on the territory of the Ottoman Empire (mainly Catholics and Protestants), the government was forced to make a number of concessions. Thus, the religious edict of 1856 proclaimed full equality in the rights of Muslims and non-Muslims. Despite these improvements, the Church of Antioch experienced a deep internal crisis in the second half of the 20th century. Its reasons should be sought in the fact that the congregation of the Antioch Church, consisting mainly of Arabs, was under Greek administration, which, unfortunately, did not always understand its aspirations and met its needs. Understanding this, the children of the Church of Antioch did everything possible to change the situation. The undoubted merit in this belongs to the metropolitan of Tripoli, Gregory (Haddad), elected patriarch of Antioch in 1906 and became the second Arab-speaking patriarch in the history of the Church of Antioch.