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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 Tue, 20 Aug 2013 13:08:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.3 https://www.aoiusa.org/the-arab-spring-and-the-plight-of-the-coptic-christian/ https://www.aoiusa.org/the-arab-spring-and-the-plight-of-the-coptic-christian/#comments Tue, 20 Aug 2013 13:05:50 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=12961 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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By Abbott Tryphon Coptic is the Pharoes’ name for “Egyptian,“ a little appreciated echo of the fact that all of Egypt was once a Coptic, Christian nation. For seven centuries Egypt was a Christian nation, until the Arab Islamic invasion in the seventh century. When President Obama came to Cairo in 2009 for his first […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/the-arab-spring-and-the-plight-of-the-coptic-christian/feed/ 3 https://www.aoiusa.org/patriarch-kirill-pope-benedict-a-tale-of-two-leaders-for-a-new-missionary-age/ https://www.aoiusa.org/patriarch-kirill-pope-benedict-a-tale-of-two-leaders-for-a-new-missionary-age/#comments Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:36:00 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=5843 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’ve been asked to become an Orthodox columnist on Catholic.org and accepted. Below is my first essay. Regular readers will notice ideas we discussed on the AOI Observer. +++++++++++++++++ Catholic Online (www.catholic.org) NAPLES, FL. (Catholic Online) – Over four decades ago Pope John Paul II said that the restoration of the Russian Orthodox Church was […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/patriarch-kirill-pope-benedict-a-tale-of-two-leaders-for-a-new-missionary-age/feed/ 33 https://www.aoiusa.org/the-silence-of-the-ep-to-events-in-world-orthodoxy/ https://www.aoiusa.org/the-silence-of-the-ep-to-events-in-world-orthodoxy/#comments Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:13:05 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=5406 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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Several important events of the last week involve Orthodox Christians around the world including the protest by Palestinian Christians against the alleged corruption of the Patriarch of Jerusalem (see: Palestinian Christians jeer Greek Orthodox leader; also see: Patriarch could become persona non grata in Bethlehem) and the Muslim persecution of Coptic Christians in Egypt (see: […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/the-silence-of-the-ep-to-events-in-world-orthodoxy/feed/ 5