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	Religion and religious freedom in Georgia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		According to a 1993 census, 65% of the Georgian population identified themselves as Georgian Orthodox, 11% Muslim, 10% Russian Orthodox, 6% Armenian Apostolic and 2% Roman Catholicism.
		The Church remains very active in the restoration of these religious facilities and lobbies the Government for the return of properties that were held by the Church before the Bolshevik Revolution.
		The Georgian Orthodox Church withdrew its membership from the World Council of Churches in 1997 in order to appease clerics strongly opposed to some of the Council's requirements and methods of operation and thereby avert a schism within the Church.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Religion_and_religious_freedom_in_Georgia (1130 words)

	ipedia.com: Georgian Orthodox and Apostolic Church Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Georgian Orthodox tradition holds that Georgia is a country alloted to Mary, Mother of Jesus and that she is the main protector and intercessor, thereof.
		The oldest Georgian church was constructed in the beginning of the 3rd century, in the village Nastakisi (Kartli region of Eastern Georgia).
		Georgian Christianity was heavily influenced by the form practiced in the Byzantine Empire and is considered to be part of the wider tradition represented by the Eastern Orthodox Church.
	www.ipedia.com /georgian_orthodox_and_apostolic_church.html (958 words)

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		Georgian research institutes, however, still cannot independently use their own scientific or economic innovations, and are hindered in making use of them in joint ventures with Western scholars or firms.
		The Georgian church became merely an exarchate of the Russian church, and the first head of the exarchate, a Georgian metropolitan named Varlam Eristavi, was replaced after six years by a Russian.
		Such a view of Georgian Orthodoxy was later adopted by Georgian Mensheviks and the government of independent Georgia (1918-1921), although it allowed preparations to restore the Georgian patriarchate and the church's resumption of worship in the Georgian language.
	www.angelfire.com /ga/Georgian/history.html (4112 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Greek Church
		Thus the Ruthenian Church of Galicia, the Rumanian Church of Austria-Hungary, the Bulgarian Church of Turkish Bulgaria, the Melchite Church of Syria, the Georgian Church, the Italo-Greek Church, and the Church of the Greeks in Turkey or in the Hellenic Kingdom -- all of them Catholic -- are often called the United Greek Churches.
		The superior hierarchy of a Greek Church at the period we are treating of, viz., from the fourth to the tenth century, was composed of a patriarch, a catholicos, the greater metropolitans, the autocephalous metropolitans, the archbishops and the bishops.
		A sub-type of the Syriac rite is represented by the liturgies used in the Syriac Churches of Mesopotamia and Persia; the liturgy of Sts.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/06752a.htm (17485 words)

	Georgia
		A prominent Armenian Church in Tbilisi remained closed, and the Roman Catholic and Armenian Apostolic Churches, as with Protestant denominations, have had difficulty obtaining permission to construct new churches due to pressure from the Georgian Orthodox Church.
		The Roman Catholic and Armenian Apostolic Churches have been unable to secure the return of their churches and other facilities that were closed during the Soviet period, many of which later were given to the Georgian Orthodox Church by the State.
		A prominent Armenian church in Tbilisi remains closed and the Roman Catholic and Armenian Apostolic Churches, with Protestant denominations, have had difficulty obtaining permission to construct new churches, reportedly in part as a result of pressure from the Georgian Orthodox Church.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/irf/2003/24358.htm (4082 words)

	georgia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Georgian Church has particularly close ties with the Russian Orthodox Church in which the issue of participation in the international ecumenical movement is also highly controversial.
		Archpriest Victor Petlyuchenko, deputy chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate's Department of External Church Relations and one of the Russian Orthodox Church's senior ecumenical officers told ENI that the decision of the Georgian Patriarchate was a decision of an autocephalous Orthodox Church and "thus does not automatically lead to the withdrawal of other Orthodox Churches".
		In Geneva a spokesperson for the Conference of European Churches confirmed to ENI that the organisation had received the letter from the Georgian Orthodox Church and was awaiting further clarification.
	www.stetson.edu /~psteeves/relnews/georgia2605.html (1101 words)

	KARTULI IDEA - THE GEORGIAN IDEA
		The reformator of "Asomtavruli" in 284 B.C. was the King of Iberia Parnavaz I, the founder of the Georgian Royal dynasty of Parnavazians [15].
		The Georgian Orthodox and Apostolic Church was established in the 1st century by the Apostle Andrew.
		In 1811 the Emperor's Court of Russia have unlawfully abolished the Autocephaly of the Georgian Orthodox Church.
	www.geocities.com /levan_urushadze_98/Georgia.html (3802 words)

	Adzharia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The attempt to exceed the limits of the Georgian constitution, the violations of human rights, illegal arrests, destruction of bridges and other negative phenomena have produced disturbances and the isolation of the local population from the rest of the country.
		The Holy Synod of the Georgian Orthodox church and all of our nation promotes a single desire--that there be peace, prosperity and unanimity in our country, and thus we are profoundly saddened by those tense circumstances which have developed in Georgia in connection with the situation in Adzharia.
		The synod of the Georgian Orthodox church considers that the negative phenomena that have developed in Adzharia are the result of misunderstanding and the interference of external forces.
	www.orthodoxnews.netfirms.com /119/Adzharia.htm (1500 words)

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		In September 1995 the Georgian Orthodox Church convened a Local Council, which was attended by all of the hierarchs, and by representatives of the monastics, parish clergy, and laity.
		Thus the Georgian Church's participation in this movement was recorded in the official documents of the Council, and confirmed by the ecclesiastical authorities.
		For their part, the church authorities, when they heard these further demands, felt that they had been tricked into taking a step to which they would never have consented had they known what was to follow.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Thebes/1865/private.htm (4365 words)

	Georgia Backs Away From Signing Treaty With The Vatican (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Georgian State Minister Avtandil Jorbenadze cited the "extreme sensitivity of the matter," as the basis for the government’s sudden reversal.
		The Georgian Orthodox Church is widely viewed in Georgia as a key pillar of national identity and of statehood, and it continues to exert a considerable amount of influence over public life.
		Given the lack of debate, many Georgians, especially those with rightist political sympathies, were worried that the pact would effectively erode the Orthodox church’s standing in Georgian society.
	www.hvk.org /articles/1103/33.html (758 words)

	The Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church. The Georgian Orthodox Church (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Georgian Church received the autocephaly from the Antioch Church in 457.
		Among Georgian saints Nina - (+ 335) is the enlightenness of Georgia is especially esteemed as Equal to the Apostles.
		The Head of the Georgian Church is nowadays His Holiness and Felicity Iliya (Shiolashvilli) who was born on December 20, 1933 in Ordzhonikidze (nowadays Vladikavkaz).
	www.patriarchalexii2.ru /en/history/ourtime/Georgian.html (357 words)

	Union of Councils for Soviet Jews: Georgian Orthodox Church Given Special Role in Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Georgian parliament at a plenary session on Friday passed a bill on entering amendments in the national constitution giving the Orthodox Church a special role to play in society.
		In accordance with the endorsed amendments, the Church is independent from the state and deals with it on the basis of an appropriate accord.
		He said the amendments concerning the Georgian Orthodox Church's status do not infringe on human rights in the country in any way and meet all international provisions and norms in the field of human rights and freedoms.
	www.fsumonitor.com /stories/040301Georgi.shtml (321 words)

	ilia.htm
		This Local Council of the Georgian Orthodox Church was held on December 23, 1979, in the Sioni episcopal Cathedralin Tbilisi.
		the former priest of the Georgian Orthodox Church, Andrew Boroda-Cohen[13] is the most active member and chief ideologist of this group of apostates from the Church he and his adherents are noted for their astonishing lack of logic.
		Orthodox divine services in Georgia are conducted by the Georgian Autocephalous Apostolic Church, which is separate from the State, and whose supreme ruling organ is the Holy Synod.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Thebes/1865/ilia.htm (6247 words)

	Orthodox Church : Orthodox Catholic Church : Eastern Orthodoxy - News about religious cults and sects
		The official designation of the church in Eastern Orthodox liturgical or canonical texts is ''the Orthodox Catholic Church.'' Because of the historical links of Eastern Orthodoxy with the Eastern Roman Empire and Byzantium (Constantinople), however, in English usage it is referred to as the ''Eastern'' or ''Greek Orthodox'' Church.
		Orthodox Christianity: Generically the term orthodox refers to traditional, conservative forms of Christianity, upholding the traditional Christian beliefs about God as a Trinity and about Jesus Christ as taught in the church's early creeds.
		Sometimes the Orthodox Church is also called the Eastern Orthodox Church, or the Oriental Church, or the Christian Church of the East, or the Orthodox Catholic Church, or the Graeco-Russian Church.
	www.apologeticsindex.org /o06.html (1608 words)

	Institute for War and Peace Reporting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Georgian Orthodox Church rejects criticism that it is abusing its special status in society.
		Twenty-three Georgian seminary students have drawn the wrath of the church leadership in Tbilisi for an open leader that called for reforms in the Georgian Orthodox Church.
		The document said that the church was an “essential foundation for the revival of the country” and gave the church special commercial privileges.
	www.iwpr.net /index.pl?archive/cau/cau_200412_264_3_eng.txt (1064 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		He considers the Georgian Orthodox Church as being off-staged under the influence of the dark forces.
		As for the relations of our Church with "the World Council of Churches" and "the European Conference of Churches", we note that unfortunately they did not meet the expectations and could not succeeded to prepare the ground for the true Christian unity.
		Therefore, the orthodox churches of Georgia and Bulgaria left the above-mentioned organisations upon the decision of the Holy Synods in 1997.
	www.patriarchate.ge /ne/sapatriarqosgantsxadebae.htm (679 words)

	Georgian Orthodox Corruption
		Kobakhidze is famous in Georgia for his criticism of church leadership and for advocating dialogue with minority Christian groups.
		This, he claimed, has helped make the church leadership a stronghold of conservatism and religious "fanaticism" that sees every Western influence as a "threat" to the Georgian state.
		Kobakhidze said that most of his fellow citizens are under the influence of the "religious nationalism" that has dominated society since the second half of the 1990s.
	exorthodoxforchrist.com /georgian_orthodox_corruption.htm (1067 words)

	Memorandum to the U.S. Government on Religious Violence in the Republic of Georgia (Human Rights Watch August 2001)
		As a party to both conventions, the Georgian government has a duty to guarantee basic rights to religious minorities, to prosecute those who participate in religious violence, and to take administrative or legal measures against officials who are complicit in religious violence or who do not exercise their authority to enforce the criminal law.
		In 2001 Georgian officials at the highest level have condemned violence against non-traditional faiths, but throughout the past two years have failed to take action to stop the attacks, to discipline police and local authorities complicit in the attacks, or to protect congregants from further attacks and protect their right to freedom of religion.
		Mkalavishvili was the founder of the Church of St. George in the Gldani district.
	www.hrw.org /backgrounder/eca/georgia/georgia_memo_full.htm (6157 words)

	Georgian Orthodox Church calls on public to be wary of scientology - religious cults and sects
		Georgian Orthodox Church calls on public to be wary of scientology - religious cults and sects
		Tbilisi, 28 December: The office of the patriarch of the Georgian Orthodox Church issued a statement today, warning the public not to fall under the influence of the false doctrine of the totalitarian sect of scientology.
		The Church of Scientology is a commercial enterprise that masquerades as a religion, and that increasingly acts like a hate group.
	www.apologeticsindex.org /news1/an011230-01.html?FACTNet (361 words)

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		Kobahidze: First of all, I would like to point out that our church is a very small one, and when five monasteries leave it in a schism, it has very painful repercussions for the faithful and for the people in the Church.
		It was being asserted that we would soon see the departure of the episcopate from the faith, and that these are bishops who are "not exactly Orthodox in spirit." This undermined the ecclesiological consciousness of faithful and their faith in their pastors.
		Their articles are full of terminology such as "the official church" and "the church in resistance," which is of course Greek Old-Calendarist terminology.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/jim_forest/vassily.htm (3326 words)

	Religious attacks vex non-Orthodox Georgians / Violence against Christian sects becoming routine
		A majority of Georgians are, nominally at least, members of the Georgian Orthodox Church, which has sought to reassert its social and political influence following its suppression during Soviet rule.
		For many ardent Orthodox followers, the growth of other denominations represents a threat to the traditional dominance of their church.
		The Orthodox Church has become increasingly linked to nationalist causes, and some of its followers, and even its priests, have been implicated in the attacks on other faiths.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/08/17/MN482.DTL (1074 words)

	Georgia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		However, The Georgian Orthodox enjoys tax-free status not available to other faiths, and Georgia’s tradition of religious tolerance is being challenged by the Georgian Orthodox Church’s resistance to missionary activity by evangelical Christian and other missionaries.
		The Georgian Orthodox Church has publicly taken the position that foreign missionary activity should be confined to non-Christian areas of the country.
		The Roman Catholic and Armenian Orthodox church have had difficulty obtaining the return of property confiscated during the period of Soviet rule.
	www.religiousfreedom.com /wrpt/fsu/georgia.htm (361 words)

	Religion in Georgia - Besiki Sisauri's Web Site
		The Orthodox Church of Georgia traces its foundation to the time of Constantine the Great, and is thus one of the most ancient national Churches in the world.
		It has a distinguished record of devotional and philoshophical achievement, and of steadfastness in the face of persecution on the part of such overlords as Mazdeism Iran, the Mongols, and Bolshevik Russia.
		With the exception of the life of St. Nino, none of the biographies of the Georgian Saints has previously been translated into English.
	www.angelfire.com /ga/Georgian/index2.html (237 words)

	Adherents.com
		"The Churches of the New Jerusalem exist in three main bodies: General Convention of the New Jerusalem in the U.S.A., the older U.S. body; General Church of the New Jerusalem, which broke from the older group in 1890; and the General Conference in England...
		In 1993 Georgian Orthodox 65 percent, Muslim 11 percent, Russian Orthodox 10 percent, and Armenian Apostolic 8 percent.
		The church began to recover with the arrival of the glasnost' policy of the late 1980s, and since independence the Georgian church has plated a prominent part in national life.
	www.adherents.com /Na/Na_296.html (2702 words)

	Catholic World News : Georgia cancels treaty signing with Vatican, elicits rebuke for Orthodox
		Tblisi, Georgia, Sep. 21, 2003 (CWNews.com) - The Holy See offered a stern rebuke on Saturday to the government of Georgia and the Georgian Orthodox Church after the ex-Soviet republic backed off plans for signing an accord with the Vatican on diplomatic relations and the rights of the Catholic Church in that country.
		But a public protest by Georgian Orthodox Patriarch Ilia II followed by street protests forced the government to postpone the treaty signing.
		But the fact is, Georgia is heavily Orthodox (99 percent) and likely to remain that way.
	www.cwnews.com /news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=24807 (330 words)

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