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Ukraine sends Savior of Chernobyl icon to Japan
Kiev, April 5, Interfax – Donetsk department of Soyuz Chernobyl of Ukraine transferred Japan the icon of Chernobyl Savior. The ceremony was held in national opera and ballet theatre. Department head Evgeny Struzhko handed over the holy image to the director of the ballet school Terada Ballet Art School Michiko Terada, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church…
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Met. Hilarion: Life is given for us to exercise in virtue
Homily on the Sunday of St. John Climacus, author of The Ladder of Divine Ascent. Source: Department for External Church Relations of the Russian Orthodox Church This book was written in the 7th century for the monks on Mount Sinai, but it is still relevant today. It presents the entire spiritual life of a Christian…
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Greek Orthodox Church Supports Gay-Themed Science Education?
The Los Angeles Times reports that the Greek Orthodox Church supports a bill that is winding through the California State Legislature to “study of the role and contributions of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans … to the economic, political and social development of California and the United States of America, with particular emphasis on…
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On Contemporary Narrow Mindedness in Orthodoxy
Source: Mystagogy By Metropolitan Kallistos Ware of Diokleia Alas, the element of nationalism, of ethnic narrowness, is a fact that we can see very widely in the contemporary Orthodox Church. And it has of course deep historical roots. It is not only a problem of today. Phyletism, setting nationalism above Orthodox catholicity, was defined as…
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The Left’s sloppy thinking concerning the defense of human life
Source: Wintery Knight Secular leftists (as well as many religious leftists) hold the views they do not because the views are internally coherent, but because they they fear being ostracized by their peers for holding conservative opinions. Moral posturing — holding politically correct viewpoints — is more important than clear thinking in the secularist canon.…
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