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https://www.aoiusa.org A Research and Educational Organization that engages the cultural issues of the day within the Orthodox Christian Tradition Wed, 07 Nov 2012 23:57:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.3 https://www.aoiusa.org/the-collapse-of-the-christian-consensus/ https://www.aoiusa.org/the-collapse-of-the-christian-consensus/#comments Wed, 07 Nov 2012 23:12:52 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=12346 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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I got caught short on this election. I thought Romney would win because of Obama’s mismanagement of the economy and foreign policy. I never thought that people would vote against their own interests in the numbers that they did. Secondly, it was clear a cultural shift is occurring but I thought it would favor Romney […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/the-collapse-of-the-christian-consensus/feed/ 11 https://www.aoiusa.org/6307/ https://www.aoiusa.org/6307/#comments Thu, 08 Apr 2010 03:20:52 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=6307 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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GREEK ORTHODOX ARCHDIOCESE OF AMERICA 8-10 East 79th St. New York, NY 10075-0106 * Tel: (212) 570-3530 Fax: (212) 774-0237 www.goarch.org – Email: communications@goarch.org Contact: PRESS OFFICE Stavros Papagermanos pressoffice@goarch.org April 7, 2010 ARCHBISHOP DEMETRIOS ATTENDS EASTER PRAYER BREAKFAST AT WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON – His Eminence Archbishop Demetrios of America attended yesterday, an Easter Prayer […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/6307/feed/ 1 https://www.aoiusa.org/u-s-ambassador-praises-egypts-freedom-of-the-press-and-human-rights-copts-say-otherwise/ https://www.aoiusa.org/u-s-ambassador-praises-egypts-freedom-of-the-press-and-human-rights-copts-say-otherwise/#respond Tue, 15 Dec 2009 03:41:34 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=5093 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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A friend sent me this translation of an original article in Arabic here. During her visit to Tanta University Scobey praises Freedom of the Press and Human Rights in Egypt Monday 14th of December 2009 Gharbia: Hend Adel Margaret Scobey, the United States of America’s Ambassador to Egypt affirmed that there is no differentiation between […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/u-s-ambassador-praises-egypts-freedom-of-the-press-and-human-rights-copts-say-otherwise/feed/ 0 https://www.aoiusa.org/ecumenical-patriarch-bartholomew-on-the-hill/ https://www.aoiusa.org/ecumenical-patriarch-bartholomew-on-the-hill/#comments Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:30:58 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=4404 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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At the Joint House and Senate Luncheon in his Honor Hosted by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid Remarks and Toast of His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew The Rayburn Room The Capitol Direct Archdiocesan District Washington, DC November 4, 2009 ——— Madame Speaker Pelosi and Majority Leader Reid, […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/ecumenical-patriarch-bartholomew-on-the-hill/feed/ 4 https://www.aoiusa.org/ecumenical-patriarch-bartholomew-at-the-white-house/ https://www.aoiusa.org/ecumenical-patriarch-bartholomew-at-the-white-house/#comments Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:43:13 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=4398 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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From the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America (Nov. 4, 2009): President Obama receives Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew in the Oval Office WASHINGTON – His All Holiness, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew was received today at the White House in the Oval Office by President Barack Obama. This reciprocal visit to the one paid by President Obama earlier this […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/ecumenical-patriarch-bartholomew-at-the-white-house/feed/ 6 https://www.aoiusa.org/brilliant/ https://www.aoiusa.org/brilliant/#comments Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:11:54 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=2899 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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President Obama and Pope Benedict met in Rome today. As reported by Reuters: Obama and Benedict held private talks for about 40 minutes in the pope’s frescoed study in the Vatican’s apostolic palace and the Vatican said bioethics and life issues were a central part of the discussion. In a surprise move, the pontiff gave […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/brilliant/feed/ 4 https://www.aoiusa.org/obama-in-the-hagia-sophia/ https://www.aoiusa.org/obama-in-the-hagia-sophia/#comments Tue, 07 Apr 2009 16:30:11 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=1499 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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President Barack Obama, center, is accompanied by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, rear center, and White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, fourth from right, rear, as he visits the Blue Mosque in Istanbul, Turkey, Tuesday, April 7, 2009. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/obama-in-the-hagia-sophia/feed/ 4 https://www.aoiusa.org/patr-bartholomew-to-white-house-meeting/ https://www.aoiusa.org/patr-bartholomew-to-white-house-meeting/#respond Fri, 27 Mar 2009 20:12:12 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=1372 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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The Greek newspaper Kathimerini is reporting that President Obama will meet Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew when he is in Istanbul on April 7 during a visit to Turkey. “However,” the paper said, “the US president is also due to hold a one-on-one meeting with the patriarch in the White House on November 3.” The plans were […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/patr-bartholomew-to-white-house-meeting/feed/ 0 https://www.aoiusa.org/archbishop-demetrios-compares-obama-to-alexander-the-great/ https://www.aoiusa.org/archbishop-demetrios-compares-obama-to-alexander-the-great/#comments Thu, 26 Mar 2009 03:34:54 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=1327 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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Archbishop Demetrios, leader of the largest Orthodox Christian jurisdiction in the United States, compared President Obama to Alexander the Great at a Greek Independence Day celebration at the White House. Politico, noting that the president got “a little unexpected flattery” from the hierarch about his crisis management skills, said the archbishop told Obama: “Following the […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/archbishop-demetrios-compares-obama-to-alexander-the-great/feed/ 37 https://www.aoiusa.org/obama-waffling-on-armenian-genocide-declaration/ https://www.aoiusa.org/obama-waffling-on-armenian-genocide-declaration/#comments Thu, 19 Mar 2009 02:18:59 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=1250 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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The Los Angeles Times reports that the Obama administration “is hesitating on a promised presidential declaration that Armenians were the victims of genocide in the early 20th century, fearful of alienating Turkey when U.S. officials badly want its help.” The L. A. Times, in “Obama wavers on pledge to declare Armenian genocide,” says Obama and […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/obama-waffling-on-armenian-genocide-declaration/feed/ 1 https://www.aoiusa.org/mor-gabriel-halki-and-obama/ https://www.aoiusa.org/mor-gabriel-halki-and-obama/#comments Sun, 08 Mar 2009 19:30:30 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=1191 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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A very timely story yesterday in the Wall Street Journal by Andrew Higgins about a land dispute between Syriac Orthodox monastery Mor Gabriel and Turkish authorities. Also yesterday, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, during a stop in Ankara, announced that President Obama will be visiting Turkey “in a month or so.” She said this […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/mor-gabriel-halki-and-obama/feed/ 7 https://www.aoiusa.org/bishop-savas-to-head-goa-office-of-church-and-society/ https://www.aoiusa.org/bishop-savas-to-head-goa-office-of-church-and-society/#comments Sat, 28 Feb 2009 16:02:49 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=1124 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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Greek Orthodox Archbishop Demetrios announced yesterday that Bishop Savas of Troas, most recently the chancellor of the archdiocese, has been named director of the Office of Church and Society. The bishop will be charged with developing “programs and ministries that promote a creative Orthodox Christian engagement with contemporary societal and cultural realities.” Readers of this […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/bishop-savas-to-head-goa-office-of-church-and-society/feed/ 6 https://www.aoiusa.org/the-faith-based-pitfall/ https://www.aoiusa.org/the-faith-based-pitfall/#respond Fri, 20 Feb 2009 14:52:29 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=1042 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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A word of warning from Joseph Loconte on the seductive appeal of government funding for Church-based social ministries. Loconte, a senior research fellow at The King’s College in New York City, says that the faith-based initiative, as it’s being reformulated under the Obama administration, will likely be filtered though a Religious Left/Social Gospel ideology which […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/the-faith-based-pitfall/feed/ 0 https://www.aoiusa.org/obamas-theology-problem/ https://www.aoiusa.org/obamas-theology-problem/#comments Sun, 25 Jan 2009 13:23:17 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=890 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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John Mark Reynolds observes in the Washington Post that President Obama’s liberal Christian theology “represents a last chance for a faith that has been in decline in the West since the 1950s.” Reynolds, an Orthodox Christian, blogs at The Scriptorium Daily along with other faculty from the Torrey Honors Institute, a great books program at […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/obamas-theology-problem/feed/ 8 https://www.aoiusa.org/met-jonahs-obama-moment/ https://www.aoiusa.org/met-jonahs-obama-moment/#respond Wed, 03 Dec 2008 17:51:57 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=592 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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The Washington Times’ Julia Duin interviews Metropolitan Jonah who, she says, is enjoying an “Obama moment” because of his relative youth and sudden rise to prominence. In Duin’s interview, the Metropolitan said he wants to expand outreach to youth and on college campuses. “The thing I am most concerned about is the despair that grips […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/met-jonahs-obama-moment/feed/ 0