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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 Sat, 09 Jun 2012 23:33:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.3 https://www.aoiusa.org/is-greece-european/ https://www.aoiusa.org/is-greece-european/#comments Sat, 09 Jun 2012 19:12:47 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=11844 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 lived in Greece a while back and have returned five or six times since. The problems that caused Greece’s economic collapse were evident even back in the mid-1990s and like all Greeks, I learned how to play the system in order to survive. We really had no other option. Getting around the rules was […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/is-greece-european/feed/ 17 https://www.aoiusa.org/orthodox-churches-object-to-national-identity-cards/ https://www.aoiusa.org/orthodox-churches-object-to-national-identity-cards/#comments Wed, 27 Apr 2011 22:02:33 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=9907 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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First of all, let’s dispense with the pejoratives: Conservative and nationalist wings within the churches have held demonstrations in Athens and Moscow and claim that the cards will compromise national and religious identity. Many have gone so far as to say that identity numbers such as 666 are the “mark of the beast” from the […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/orthodox-churches-object-to-national-identity-cards/feed/ 8 https://www.aoiusa.org/new-european-union-school-calendar-omits-christian-holidays/ https://www.aoiusa.org/new-european-union-school-calendar-omits-christian-holidays/#comments Wed, 19 Jan 2011 13:16:00 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=8836 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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So we are supposed to believe that omitting the Christian holidays was a mistake? Source: Catholic News Agency | HT: Monomakhos Strasbourg, France, Jan 14, 2011 / 02:11 pm (CNA).- A 2011-2012 school calendar published by the European Union has omitted Christian holidays, while continuing to note important Jewish and Muslim celebrations. The European Union […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/new-european-union-school-calendar-omits-christian-holidays/feed/ 14 https://www.aoiusa.org/report-turkey-prepares-to-join-eu-in-a-building-confiscated-from-the-orthodox/ https://www.aoiusa.org/report-turkey-prepares-to-join-eu-in-a-building-confiscated-from-the-orthodox/#comments Sun, 13 Dec 2009 03:51:21 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=5055 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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But first a word from Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew: “With Turkey anchored to Europe, we can anchor the world and extend peace and love and justice East and South. ” Nat da Polis on AsiaNews.it: The new headquarters of the Secretariat for entry into the European Union is an old school of the minority Orthodox in […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/report-turkey-prepares-to-join-eu-in-a-building-confiscated-from-the-orthodox/feed/ 1 https://www.aoiusa.org/erdogan-and-the-christians/ https://www.aoiusa.org/erdogan-and-the-christians/#comments Fri, 28 Aug 2009 17:15:48 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=3298 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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Vatican analyst Sandro Magister takes a closer look at the recent meeting between Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I. “But like other conciliatory gestures in the past, this one also risks producing no results,” notes the introduction on Chiesa online. Magister examines Pope Benedict XVI’s reservations about the entry of […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/erdogan-and-the-christians/feed/ 2 https://www.aoiusa.org/report-turkey-to-reopen-halki-seminary/ https://www.aoiusa.org/report-turkey-to-reopen-halki-seminary/#comments Mon, 29 Jun 2009 01:31:48 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=2662 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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Turkish newspapers say a deal is in the works. Will there be reciprocity from Greece? When President Obama was in Turkey, there were reports that “the recognition by Greek authorities of muftis in Thrace and financial support for Muslim schools might prompt a Turkish rethink on the Halki school.” Here is the story from Hurriyet, […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/report-turkey-to-reopen-halki-seminary/feed/ 5