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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, 03 Nov 2012 00:53:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.3 https://www.aoiusa.org/russian-orthodox-bishop-syrian-christians-facing-extermination/ https://www.aoiusa.org/russian-orthodox-bishop-syrian-christians-facing-extermination/#comments Sat, 03 Nov 2012 00:40:18 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=12338 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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Over at the Acton Institute blog, John Couretas writes about his recent interview with Russian Orthodox Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, about increasing Christian persecution around the world. One focus was the mid-east where the Western “Arab Spring” policy has in fact unleashed a torrent of […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/russian-orthodox-bishop-syrian-christians-facing-extermination/feed/ 10 https://www.aoiusa.org/russian-warns-on-demonic-roots-of-socialism/ https://www.aoiusa.org/russian-warns-on-demonic-roots-of-socialism/#comments Fri, 06 Jul 2012 20:45:47 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=12009 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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Source: Acton Institute | By John Couretas In Rome to address a conference sponsored by the Dignitatis Humanae Institute (Institute for Human Dignity) on June 29, Russian pro-life campaigner Alexey Komov expressed amazement for the support that socialism gets in some quarters in the West even though it has “never worked in world history.” In […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/russian-warns-on-demonic-roots-of-socialism/feed/ 7 https://www.aoiusa.org/christian-environmentalism-costs-nothing/ https://www.aoiusa.org/christian-environmentalism-costs-nothing/#comments Thu, 21 Jun 2012 22:48:10 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=11924 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 John Couretas In his June 18 keynote address at the opening ceremony of the Halki Summit in Turkey, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew looked forward to the start of the Rio +20 United Nations Conference on Sustainability, June 20-22. He noted that attendees at his environmental gathering were “deeply frustrated with the stubborn resistance and reluctant […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/christian-environmentalism-costs-nothing/feed/ 27 https://www.aoiusa.org/john-couretas-protect-the-poor-not-poverty-programs/ https://www.aoiusa.org/john-couretas-protect-the-poor-not-poverty-programs/#respond Wed, 10 Aug 2011 22:42:22 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=10677 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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Source: Acton Institute | By John Couretas One of the disturbing aspects of the liberal/progressive faith campaign known as the Circle of Protection is that its organizers have such little regard – indeed are blind to — the innate freedom of the human person. Their campaign, which has published “A Statement on Why We Need […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/john-couretas-protect-the-poor-not-poverty-programs/feed/ 0 https://www.aoiusa.org/john-couretas-greek-patriarch-no-nukes/ https://www.aoiusa.org/john-couretas-greek-patriarch-no-nukes/#comments Tue, 15 Mar 2011 03:41:24 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=9492 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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With the terrible human toll from Japan’s earthquake and tsunami catastrophe only now being comprehended, and the grave follow on crisis at the country’s nuclear power plants unfolding by the hour, the anti-nuclear power crowd has already begun issuing statements such as the one Greenpeace put out saying that “nuclear power cannot ever be safe.” […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/john-couretas-greek-patriarch-no-nukes/feed/ 7 https://www.aoiusa.org/ambiguorum-blogis-the-miscellaneous-thoughts-of-fr-michael-butler-goes-live/ https://www.aoiusa.org/ambiguorum-blogis-the-miscellaneous-thoughts-of-fr-michael-butler-goes-live/#comments Wed, 18 Aug 2010 18:22:35 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=7447 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 always welcome the emergence of new contributions on Orthodoxy and culture by thoughtful commentators. Orthodox Christianity has much to give this country, indeed all of the Christian West, but our thinking has been underdeveloped and our contributions sparse. Much of this is due of course to historical circumstance; Orthodox Christianity is only now finding […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/ambiguorum-blogis-the-miscellaneous-thoughts-of-fr-michael-butler-goes-live/feed/ 10 https://www.aoiusa.org/prophet-jim-wallis-and-the-ecclesia-of-economic-ignorance/ https://www.aoiusa.org/prophet-jim-wallis-and-the-ecclesia-of-economic-ignorance/#comments Wed, 14 Apr 2010 18:32:33 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=6372 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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Wallis poses as a centrist but his economic prescriptions are hard-left with lots of self-congratulatory “prophetic” moralizing thrown in. +++++++++++++++++++ By John Couretas. Acton Institute This class of the very poor – those who are just on the borders of pauperism or fairly over the borders – is rapidly growing. Wealth is increasing very fast; […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/prophet-jim-wallis-and-the-ecclesia-of-economic-ignorance/feed/ 33