Category: Blog Archive
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Radio Free Europe: The Price Of Influence
Writing on the RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty Power Vertical blog, Brian Whitmore suggests that there may be a little too much symphonia in a recent move by Russian Patriarch Kirill to work closely with the United Russia political party. Whitmore: What motivated United Russia and Patriarch Kirill I to reach an agreement giving the Russian Orthodox Church an…
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Blowing the Whistle on Bernie Madoff
From the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese: Harry Markopolos, Madoff Whistleblower to give annual Zoullas Memorial Lecture for Southampton Greek Orthodox Church Harry Markopolos will give the guest lecture at the Tenth Annual Zoullas Memorial Lecture for the Greek Orthodox Church of the Hamptons on August 8, 2009 at 7:00 p.m. Print flyer can be downloaded here.…
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Greek clergy circulate document on ‘pan-heresy of ecumenism’
(Ecumenical News International) — A group of Orthodox clergy in Greece, led by three senior archbishops, have published a manifesto pledging to resist all ecumenical ties with Roman Catholics and Protestants. “The only way our communion with heretics can be restored is if they renounce their fallacy and repent,” the group said in a “Confession…
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‘deception, power-mongering, and even forgery’
It is now a police matter. David Yonke, religion editor at the Toledo Blade, has a very thorough report on the unjust and spectacularly un-Christian treatment Antiochian Orthodox Bishop Mark of Toledo has received at the hands of Walid Khalife, of Bloomfield Hills, Mich., who sent threatening emails to the bishop and other clergy. As…