Category: Blog Archive
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Russian Orthodox Church raises fears over pro-gay Protestant Churches
Virtue Online Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia has told the head of the World Council of Churches of his concerns over the position of some Protestant Churches towards homosexuality. WCC General Secretary Dr Olav Fykse Tveit met the Patriarch in Moscow today as part of his first visit to the Russian Orthodox Church…
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Israel Loses Turkey, Gains Greece as Strategic Partner
Israel’s shift away from Turkey to Greece will have ramifications for the Ecumenical Patriarchate (and the US Greek lobby) as well. Source: National Herald Israel has finally moved on from its fractured relationship with Turkey – notwithstanding the impression conveyed by some US and Israeli circles that the damage is not beyond repair. This week,…
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Freedom of religion devolves to an “anorexic freedom of worship”
Chuck Colson sounds the alarm about a shift in US policy first noticed by The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom in its 2010 annual report. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton replaced the term “freedom of religion” with “freedom of worship” in a December, 2009 speech at Georgetown University. President Obama first used “freedom of…
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Mattingly: A Catholic dad’s fight against abuse
Picking up on the theme introduced with the Fr. Michael Oleska piece below (How the self governance of the OCA has benefited Orthodox Christians on this continent), Terry Mattingly writes how it took an outraged and persistent father (dad, not Rev.) to force the Catholic bishops out of self-preserving denial and finally confront — to…