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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 Thu, 24 Dec 2009 02:30:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.3 https://www.aoiusa.org/report-phanar-backtracks-on-crucifixion-remark/ https://www.aoiusa.org/report-phanar-backtracks-on-crucifixion-remark/#comments Thu, 24 Dec 2009 02:30:54 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=5268 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 Today’s Zaman (Dec. 24). No statement yet on the Patriarchate’s site. The patriarchate’s statement said: “There are similar idioms in all languages, and they are not evaluated in their narrow meanings but in their broad sense in that language. While answering questions in that regard, the patriarch obviously did not intend to imply any […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/report-phanar-backtracks-on-crucifixion-remark/feed/ 1 https://www.aoiusa.org/battle-looming-over-icons-and-prayers-in-greek-schools/ https://www.aoiusa.org/battle-looming-over-icons-and-prayers-in-greek-schools/#respond Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:33:25 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=5246 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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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MbEL-C7ypU[/youtube] The head of the Greek Orthodox Church has warned the country’s new socialist government that it faces a major battle over removing religious symbols from schools. The European Court in Strasbourg has ordered Italy to take down crucifixes from its classrooms, and Greece’s Justice Minister has acknowledged that it may have to follow suit. […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/battle-looming-over-icons-and-prayers-in-greek-schools/feed/ 0 https://www.aoiusa.org/editorial-who-will-pay-the-taxes/ https://www.aoiusa.org/editorial-who-will-pay-the-taxes/#comments Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:13:54 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=5212 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 National Herald: Judging from the massive, angry reaction of our readers so far, it is obvious that we have hit a nerve with our editorial in last week’s edition entitled “Give Us Your Property”, rejecting Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew’s demand for “at least” a building from each one of our nine metropolises, in order, […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/editorial-who-will-pay-the-taxes/feed/ 1 https://www.aoiusa.org/church-of-greece-rallies-opposition-to-crucifix-ban/ https://www.aoiusa.org/church-of-greece-rallies-opposition-to-crucifix-ban/#comments Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:21:24 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=4569 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 Malcolm Brabant reporting for the BBC in Athens: The Greek Orthodox Church is urging Christians across Europe to unite in an appeal against a ban on crucifixes in classrooms in Italy. The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg ruled last week that the presence of crucifixes violated a child’s right to freedom of […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/church-of-greece-rallies-opposition-to-crucifix-ban/feed/ 3 https://www.aoiusa.org/boldness-or-irrelevance/ https://www.aoiusa.org/boldness-or-irrelevance/#comments Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:04:50 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=4494 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 at the Scriptorium: There is a boldness that should come with the a commitment to Christ. When the Green Patriarch (Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew) goes to a university ridden with the problems of our age and only tells them the parts of the Christian faith with which they are likely to agree, we […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/boldness-or-irrelevance/feed/ 4 https://www.aoiusa.org/ecumenical-patriarch-bartholomew-humans-have-lost-their-original-humanity/ https://www.aoiusa.org/ecumenical-patriarch-bartholomew-humans-have-lost-their-original-humanity/#comments Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:07:31 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=3590 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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In an address Tuesday at the University of the Peloponnese in Tripolis, Greece, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew said that “a homogenization of humans and peoples is in progress” and underlined that the environmental threat points to “problematic anthropology.” He spoke of an “ecological crisis” and stressed that “the looting of the planet, the burning of the […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/ecumenical-patriarch-bartholomew-humans-have-lost-their-original-humanity/feed/ 27 https://www.aoiusa.org/metropolitan-gerasimos-on-christian-unity/ https://www.aoiusa.org/metropolitan-gerasimos-on-christian-unity/#comments Mon, 14 Sep 2009 02:17:01 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=3458 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 Orthodox Metropolis of San Francisco recently posted the keynote speech that Metropolitan Gerasimos delivered in April for the National Workshop on Christian Unity in Phoenix. It is a lengthy speech so we will post only a few excerpts here. Metropolitan Gerasimos: Our task as Christians is to keep the Body of Christ united […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/metropolitan-gerasimos-on-christian-unity/feed/ 16 https://www.aoiusa.org/archbishop-demetrios-to-hold-memorial-service-at-ground-zero/ https://www.aoiusa.org/archbishop-demetrios-to-hold-memorial-service-at-ground-zero/#respond Wed, 09 Sep 2009 23:12:14 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=3409 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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NEW YORK — His Eminence Archbishop Demetrios of America will hold a memorial service on Friday, September 11, at 2:30 p.m. at Ground Zero on the site of St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, the only religious edifice destroyed in the 9/11 attacks. The location where the service will be held is near Gate 7, corner […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/archbishop-demetrios-to-hold-memorial-service-at-ground-zero/feed/ 0 https://www.aoiusa.org/metropolitan-methodios-urgent-need-for-a-missionary-effort/ https://www.aoiusa.org/metropolitan-methodios-urgent-need-for-a-missionary-effort/#comments Thu, 20 Aug 2009 20:54:30 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=3220 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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Thoughts for the New Ecclesiastical Year By Metropolitan Methodios As we begin the new ecclesiastical year, I urge you to reflect upon the theme chosen for the last Clergy Laity Congress, “Gather My People to My Home.” It is critically important for us all — clergy and laity — to respond to the call of […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/metropolitan-methodios-urgent-need-for-a-missionary-effort/feed/ 16 https://www.aoiusa.org/chambesy-statement-posted-on-the-goarch-website/ https://www.aoiusa.org/chambesy-statement-posted-on-the-goarch-website/#comments Tue, 04 Aug 2009 13:30:13 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=3117 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 Orthodox Archdiocese has just posted the official English version of the Chambesy statement, the decision to form conciliar committees in the churches of the diaspora (.pdf file).]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/chambesy-statement-posted-on-the-goarch-website/feed/ 20 https://www.aoiusa.org/orthodoxy-and-obamas-conscience-clause/ https://www.aoiusa.org/orthodoxy-and-obamas-conscience-clause/#comments Fri, 24 Jul 2009 01:28:42 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=3047 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 an email earlier today. Search Google, he said, with the terms conscience rule obama catholic bishops and conscience rule obama orthodox bishops and then compare the two. Not very impressive. (Actually, the AOI blog article on Abp. Demetrios’ awkward praise of Pres. Obama ranks first in Google, but that’s beside the […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/orthodoxy-and-obamas-conscience-clause/feed/ 22 https://www.aoiusa.org/bishop-savas-launching-new-blog/ https://www.aoiusa.org/bishop-savas-launching-new-blog/#comments Mon, 20 Jul 2009 19:50:59 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=2998 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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Bishop Savas, head of the Greek Orthodox Office of Society and Culture, is starting a new blog called Living in the LOGOSphere (no posts yet). He told Greek News that the new blog “will have a different, less personal, less whimsical character” than the travel diary blog he authored last year. Readers of the AOI […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/bishop-savas-launching-new-blog/feed/ 60 https://www.aoiusa.org/greek-clergy-circulate-document-on-pan-heresy-of-ecumenism/ https://www.aoiusa.org/greek-clergy-circulate-document-on-pan-heresy-of-ecumenism/#comments Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:25:21 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=2946 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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(Ecumenical News International) — A group of Orthodox clergy in Greece, led by three senior archbishops, have published a manifesto pledging to resist all ecumenical ties with Roman Catholics and Protestants. “The only way our communion with heretics can be restored is if they renounce their fallacy and repent,” the group said in a “Confession […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/greek-clergy-circulate-document-on-pan-heresy-of-ecumenism/feed/ 3 https://www.aoiusa.org/quiet-flows-the-mississippi-into-the-matrix-of-mystery/ https://www.aoiusa.org/quiet-flows-the-mississippi-into-the-matrix-of-mystery/#comments Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:03:29 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=2757 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 I’m reading an article in the Wall Street Journal this morning about the Religious Left mounting an “aggressive” ad campaign on environmental issues and come across these lines: The ads, funded by a left-leaning coalition, urge support for congressional legislation to curb greenhouse-gas emissions — by framing the issue as an urgent matter of […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/quiet-flows-the-mississippi-into-the-matrix-of-mystery/feed/ 8 https://www.aoiusa.org/archbishop-demetrios-encyclical-on-the-fourth-of-july/ https://www.aoiusa.org/archbishop-demetrios-encyclical-on-the-fourth-of-july/#comments Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:25:50 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=2707 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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July 4, 2009 Independence Day To the Most Reverend Hierarchs, the Reverend Priests and Deacons, the Monks and Nuns, the Presidents and Members of the Parish Councils of the Greek Orthodox Communities, the Distinguished Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, the Day, Afternoon, and Church Schools, the Philoptochos Sisterhoods, the Youth, the Hellenic Organizations, and the […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/archbishop-demetrios-encyclical-on-the-fourth-of-july/feed/ 6