Category: Blog Archive
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Greece: a nation at war with itself
London Telegraph The attack on an Athens bank that left three dead stirred memories of the blood-spattered years of Greek civil war in the 1940s. When 44-year-old Marie-Therese Iatrou, who lives in a comfortable suburb outside Athens, spoke this week to her mother, Renna Nezos, she detected a note of panic in the 78-year-old’s voice.…
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‘We have reached consensus on the autocephaly procedure’
As the Inter-Orthodox Preparatory Commission for the agenda of a Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church continues its work, the issue of granting autocephaly and the diptych order has come up to its attention in the period of 2009-2010. The leader of the Russian Orthodox delegation at the Preparatory Commission meetings, Metropolitan Hilarion…
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Russian Orthodox Church accuses Europe of dual standards in freedom of expression
H/T: OBL News Moscow, May 5, Interfax – The Moscow Patriarchate is concerned by the fact that the freedom of expression in Europe often does not apply to religious communities. “In the Western world today there is often the freedom to criticize any religious view, but at the same time tough censorship of religious symbols…
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Greece Shows What America Would Be Without More Borrowing
AOL Daily Finance By Peter Cohan On May 2, Greece announced a deal to get a bailout from the European Union and the International Monetary Fund. But as part of the agreement, Greece needs to cut government spending in ways that are causing social unrest. That chaos could get so bad that Greece might decide…