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Metropolitan Hilarion: Christianity is a religion of the people of spirit
Many ask: what does it mean to be a Christian? This is what we read in the 3d century manuscript known as ‘A Letter to Diognetus’ and ascribed to St. Justin the Martyr: ‘there is something extraordinary about their lives. They live in their own countries as though they were only passing through. They play…
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“Christian Family – a ‘little church’ and a basis of healthy society.”
Final document of the plenary session of the Christian Interconfessional Consultative Committee of the CIS and Baltic countries, Moscow, 4 February 2010 4.02.2010 · Analitics, Inter-Christian relations, New documents Christian Churches of the CIS and Baltic countries, in a plenary session of the Christian Interconfessional Consultative Committee of the CIS and Baltic countries held in…
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Russia acquires land near Eiffel Tower, plans Orthodox center
The Russian Orthodox Church is on a roll! Russia has defeated Canada and Saudi Arabia in a tender for a plot of land in downtown Paris and will build a spiritual and cultural center on the banks of the Seine River near the Eiffel Tower. France’s Budget Ministry said in a statement on Monday that…
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Western intellectuals embarrassed to talk about faith, renowned European journalist says
Interfax Moscow, February 9, Interfax – Many intellectuals in the West are embarrassed to confess their faith, Tatiana Goricheva, an Orthodox philosopher, journalist and missionary said. “Academic environment in Europe dramatically differs from ours. Even if a person is a deep believer, he will keep silence about it or offer some snobby excuses for his…
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Church of England to push ahead with plan for women bishops
The (liberal) Anglicans won’t quit until their Church becomes completely unrecognizable. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Women bishops could be in place by 2012 The Church of England is to go ahead with the plan to create women bishops without giving in to demands from traditionalists for a separate structure of bishops and archbishops untainted by the hands of…
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