Category: Blog Archive
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![Alexander Tsiaras: Conception to Birth — Visualized [VIDEO]](https://www.aoiusa.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/ted-talks-thumb.png)
Alexander Tsiaras: Conception to Birth — Visualized [VIDEO]
Image-maker Alexander Tsiaras shares a powerful medical visualization, showing human development from conception to birth and beyond. (Some graphic images.) TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world’s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Alexander Tsiaras is…
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![Frederica Mathewes-Green: Gay Rights [AUDIO]](https://www.aoiusa.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/frederica-here-and-now.png)
Frederica Mathewes-Green: Gay Rights [AUDIO]
Frederica’s podcast does not offer the definitive answer on homosexuality, but it is laced with the graciousness, compassion, and fidelity to Orthodox teaching that has become her hallmark over the years. It’s worth a listen, even if only as a reminder that good people struggle with same-sex attraction who don’t adopt the ideological rigidity of…
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Church that Held the 7th Ecumenical Council at Nicea to be Turned into Mosque
Source: Vatican Insider Hagia Sophia in Nicea, where the Seventh Ecumenical Council was held in 787, is about to be declared a mosque by the Turkish authorities. As the Turkish press reports, the call to prayer was sung from the Muezzin last Thursday, for the first time since the founding of the Turkish Republish in…
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![What the Church Can Accomplish [VIDEO]](https://www.aoiusa.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/russian-child.png)
What the Church Can Accomplish [VIDEO]
+Jonah asked three years ago, where are our hospitals, our soup kitchens, our schools? Indeed, where are they? Below is a video of what a monastery in Russia is accomplishing. If they can do great things, why not us? Starets Mihail started the monastery in 1994 with four brothers. Now, the monastery has 90 monks…
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Metropolitan Hilarion Accuses West of Leaving Egypt Christians in the Lurch
The Episcopal Assembly could be in the forefront of this. Moscow, November 1, Interfax – Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, the head of the Synodal Department for External Church Relations has accused the West of failing to stand up for Egyptian Christians during recent violence against them and has slammed Western governments for putting economic interests…