Category: Blog Archive
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Greek faithful return to pray in ancient Turkish homeland
Reuters About 1,000 Greek Orthodox gathered in central Turkey this weekend for a pair of emotional liturgies led by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew as the Greek faithful seek to reclaim a cultural and religious link to their ancient homeland. Elderly women wept as black-clad nuns and monks recited mournful chants on Sunday in the 19th-century St…
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Transcript of Bp. Basil interview about the Episcopal Assembly
Matthew Namee talks with His Grace Bishop Basil, the newly elected Secretary of the Episcopal Assemblies. We learn of his impressions of the historic May 26-28 gathering in New York as well as the assignment he has been given to coordinate the work of the committees that will be formed leading up eventually to a…
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Russian Rights Group Creates Virtual Gulag
The site is written in Russian, but the pictures are nevertheless compelling. Hopefully they will provide an English version eventually. Radio Free Europe The Russian human rights center Memorial has launched an online “museum” on the history of the Soviet labor and prison camps known as the gulag, RFE/RL’s Russian Service reports. Memorial workers have…
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GOA Deacon responds to Dn. Eric Wheeler
Hierarchal Assembly – Dn. Panagiotis Hanley – Greek Orthodox Metropolis of New Jersey | June 27, 2010 | HT: Orthodox Christian Laity (OCL) Protodeacon Eric Wheeler’s editorial was mind-boggling and quite surprising. His conclusions and arguments were all over the map and quite inaccurate. That old world mentality, which he spoke of, is what has…
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HuffPo Writer Also Wants to Eradicate Limbaugh, Beck, and O’Reilly
I wanted to give Frank Schaeffer the benefit of the doubt and have been patient with his forays into the senseless (yes, bereft of good sense) moral posturing of the left thinking that he might moderate after he saw that the best he could hope for was a paternalistic tolerance a step or two above…