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Coptic hierarch takes Episcopalians to task
HT: Byzantine TX Source: Virtue Online A Coptic Orthodox Church observer to the Fourth Global South to South Encounter ripped into the Episcopal Church, stunning some 130 archbishops, bishops, clergy and laity, urging them to say “no to ordination of homosexuals, no to gay marriage, no to such immorality, and that it is time to…
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‘South Park’ and the Informal Fatwa
Wall Street Journal by: Ayann Hirsi Ali The veiled threats against the Comedy Central show’s creators should be taken very seriously. ‘South Park” is hilarious, right? Not any more. Last week, Zachary Adam Chesser—a 20-year-old Muslim convert who now goes by the name Abu Talhah Al-Amrikee—posted a warning on the Web site RevolutionMuslim.com following the…
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How Are We to Respond to Clergy Sexual Misconduct?
How should the Orthodox Church respond to the growing awareness of the harm caused by clergy sexual misconduct? I’m not asking here about policing misconduct but rather how are we to understand misconduct and what, if anything, can we do to lower its likelihood? In what follows, in this post I sketch out a brief…
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Orthodox Churches Episcopal Assembly in L.A.
Source: Iglesia Catholica Apostilica Orthodoxa De Antioquia Use Google translator above. Asamblea Episcopal de Iglesias Ortodoxas en L.A. Los días del 16 al 18 de abril marcarán la historia de la Iglesia Ortodoxa en Sudamérica, por la realización de la “Primera Asamblea Episcopal de las Iglesias Ortodoxas en Sudamérica” en la sede del Arzobispado Antioqueno…
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