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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, 12 May 2010 17:19:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.3 https://www.aoiusa.org/have-goa-metropolitans-become-citizens-of-turkey/ https://www.aoiusa.org/have-goa-metropolitans-become-citizens-of-turkey/#comments Wed, 12 May 2010 17:18:57 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=6656 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 a freewheeling interview with Hurriyet (“Turkey’s English Daily”) Pat. Bartholomew said (note last sentence): Bartholomew drew particular attention to the seminary problem. “Our generation is gradually becoming extinct, and I have concerns for the future. Where will our ecclesiastics get their education? Moreover, it would be proper to have a Halki Seminary graduate at […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/have-goa-metropolitans-become-citizens-of-turkey/feed/ 9 https://www.aoiusa.org/the-halki-seminary-and-the-patriarchate%e2%80%99s-existential-crisis/ https://www.aoiusa.org/the-halki-seminary-and-the-patriarchate%e2%80%99s-existential-crisis/#comments Mon, 03 Aug 2009 00:01:34 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=3101 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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Azbarez.com AFP reported on Thursday that the Ecumenical Patriarch in Istanbul, Bartholomew I, was hopeful Turkey would re-open a historic seminary it shut down nearly four decades ago. The Halki Orthodox Theological Seminary, located on the island of Halki off the coast of Istanbul, was the key Patriarchical institution for educating the Greek Orthodox Community […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/the-halki-seminary-and-the-patriarchate%e2%80%99s-existential-crisis/feed/ 5 https://www.aoiusa.org/the-ecumenical-patriarchate-and-the-deep-state/ https://www.aoiusa.org/the-ecumenical-patriarchate-and-the-deep-state/#comments Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:19:03 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=2875 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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Writing in Today’s Zaman, Orhan Kemal Cengiz throws a little cold water on current reports that the Halki Seminary may be reopened. Has anything really changed, he asks? Cengiz points to a long campaign, dating back to the Ottoman period, designed to either force the patriarchate to leave or to push it into extinction. The […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/the-ecumenical-patriarchate-and-the-deep-state/feed/ 1 https://www.aoiusa.org/istanbul-is-anxious/ https://www.aoiusa.org/istanbul-is-anxious/#respond Thu, 09 Jul 2009 02:34:10 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=2857 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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Lots of press attention being paid to the possible reopening of the Halki Seminary in the wake of Patriarch Kirill’s visit to the Ecumenical Patriarchate. (The patriarch is now back in Moscow where he met with President Obama.) In his analysis of the Bartholomew-Kirill meeting for Today’s Zaman, Ali Murat Yel argues for a reopening […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/istanbul-is-anxious/feed/ 0 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 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/turkey-and-religious-liberty/ https://www.aoiusa.org/turkey-and-religious-liberty/#respond Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:57:38 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=489 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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My interview with Turkish journalist Mustafa Akyol was published today in The Acton Institute’s Religion & Liberty quarterly. Our talk focused on the prospects for greater economic and religious liberty in Turkey. Mustafa blogs at The White Path. Excerpt: Let’s talk about religious freedom. There’s a great tension between the modern secularist path of Turkey, […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/turkey-and-religious-liberty/feed/ 0 https://www.aoiusa.org/a-patriarch-in-dire-straits/ https://www.aoiusa.org/a-patriarch-in-dire-straits/#respond Sat, 16 Feb 2008 20:39:36 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=32 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 Acton Institute, where I labor as communications director, I published a commentary pegged to Patriarch Bartholomew’s forthcoming book, “Encountering the Mystery.” The commentary was also picked up by the Assyrian News Agency. Read the full commentary here. In 1971, the Turkish government shut down Halki, the partriarchal seminary on Heybeliada Island in the […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/a-patriarch-in-dire-straits/feed/ 0