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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, 08 Oct 2011 17:13:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.3 https://www.aoiusa.org/mark-steyn-on-free-speech/ https://www.aoiusa.org/mark-steyn-on-free-speech/#comments Sat, 08 Oct 2011 17:07:25 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=11103 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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Steyn: “One of the great strengths of common law has been its general antipathy toward group rights because the ultimate minority is the individual. The minute you have collective rights, you require dramatically enhanced state power to mediate the hierarchy of different victim groups.”]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/mark-steyn-on-free-speech/feed/ 2 https://www.aoiusa.org/cns-news-more-than-2000-evangelical-orthodox-chaplains-join-catholics-in-opposing-pentagon-directive-on-same-sex-marriage/ https://www.aoiusa.org/cns-news-more-than-2000-evangelical-orthodox-chaplains-join-catholics-in-opposing-pentagon-directive-on-same-sex-marriage/#comments Thu, 06 Oct 2011 15:41:38 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=11065 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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Here’s one way for the Orthodox to get noticed: do what is right. Source: CNSNews (CNSNews.com) – A national group representing more than 2,000 military chaplains from evangelical Christian and Orthodox backgrounds said on Wednesday that the Pentagon has launched a “direct assault” on marriage, and the chaplains they endorse will not be allowed to […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/cns-news-more-than-2000-evangelical-orthodox-chaplains-join-catholics-in-opposing-pentagon-directive-on-same-sex-marriage/feed/ 4 https://www.aoiusa.org/the-judges-atheist-inquisition/ https://www.aoiusa.org/the-judges-atheist-inquisition/#comments Wed, 02 Mar 2011 02:05:13 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=9281 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: The Spectator | Melanie Phillips The secular inquisition against Christians was ratcheted up another notch yesterday in a grotesque judgment in the High Court by two judges, who have actually banned a couple from fostering children simply because they hold traditional Christian views about homosexuality. The implications of this judgment are utterly appalling on […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/the-judges-atheist-inquisition/feed/ 2 https://www.aoiusa.org/christianity-isn%e2%80%99t-dying-it%e2%80%99s-being-eradicated/ https://www.aoiusa.org/christianity-isn%e2%80%99t-dying-it%e2%80%99s-being-eradicated/#comments Wed, 02 Mar 2011 01:59:28 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=9276 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: London Telegraph It’s official: Britain is no longer a Christian nation. In banning Eunice and Owen Johns, a devout Christian couple, from fostering children, Lord Justice Munby and Mr Justice Beatson declared that we live in a secular state, and that the Johns’ religious convictions disqualified them from raising citizens of that state. We’ve […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/christianity-isn%e2%80%99t-dying-it%e2%80%99s-being-eradicated/feed/ 3 https://www.aoiusa.org/fr-peter-preble-interviews-fr-jay-finelli-the-ipadre/ https://www.aoiusa.org/fr-peter-preble-interviews-fr-jay-finelli-the-ipadre/#respond Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:06:09 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=5401 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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Fr. Peter Preble, host of the Ancient Faith Radio program Shepherd of Souls, webmaster of the Fr. Peter-Michael Preble website, occasional contributer to the AOI Observer and all around good guy has good discussion this week with a Roman Catholic priest on the role of the Church in politics and culture, in particular the obligation […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/fr-peter-preble-interviews-fr-jay-finelli-the-ipadre/feed/ 0 https://www.aoiusa.org/ecumenical-patriarch-bartholomew-patriarchate-is-dying/ https://www.aoiusa.org/ecumenical-patriarch-bartholomew-patriarchate-is-dying/#respond Fri, 25 Dec 2009 04:07:17 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=5286 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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’We cannot breathe, the Patriarchate is dying,’ says patriarch ASLI AYDINTAŞBAŞ ISTANBUL – Milliyet Thursday, December 24, 2009 Following criticism of his controversial statement to a U.S. television network describing his community’s problems, Greek Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew says his comments were emphasized, but the serious problem of opening Halki seminary needs to be addressed. Criticized […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/ecumenical-patriarch-bartholomew-patriarchate-is-dying/feed/ 0 https://www.aoiusa.org/wave-of-clergy-killings-in-russia/ https://www.aoiusa.org/wave-of-clergy-killings-in-russia/#respond Thu, 24 Dec 2009 22:06:41 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=5281 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: Voice of America Peter Fedynsky | Moscow 23 December 2009 The second murder of a Russian priest in as many months has prompted a call by the Orthodox Church for Russians to think about their country’s spiritual and moral condition. The killings follow more violence this year directed against Muslim clerics in Russia’s troubled […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/wave-of-clergy-killings-in-russia/feed/ 0 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/before-the-manhattan-declaration-a-letter-from-americas-religious-leaders-in-defense-of-marriage/ https://www.aoiusa.org/before-the-manhattan-declaration-a-letter-from-americas-religious-leaders-in-defense-of-marriage/#comments Wed, 23 Dec 2009 03:46:40 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=5257 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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Given the vitriol, smug arrogance, and sectarian sentiment with which some Orthodox Christians have greeted Orthodox Christian participation in the Manhattan Declaration, let us review the 2006 letter below which was signed by Archbishop Demetrios and Metropolitan Herman. In fact — and this may be upsetting to some readers so brace yourself — Archbishop Demetrios […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/before-the-manhattan-declaration-a-letter-from-americas-religious-leaders-in-defense-of-marriage/feed/ 11 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/ecumenical-patriarch-bartholomew-dark-forces-in-turkey-plotted-to-assassinate-minority-leaders/ https://www.aoiusa.org/ecumenical-patriarch-bartholomew-dark-forces-in-turkey-plotted-to-assassinate-minority-leaders/#respond Sun, 06 Dec 2009 00:53:10 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=4983 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 Yasemin Budak and Elif Kaya in the Nov. 26 Today’s Zaman (HT: National Herald): Plotters planned to overthrow government by using us, says Bartholomew Greek Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew has said dark forces planned to use minorities to overthrow the government as revealed in the investigation into Ergenekon, a clandestine organization accused of attempting to […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/ecumenical-patriarch-bartholomew-dark-forces-in-turkey-plotted-to-assassinate-minority-leaders/feed/ 0 https://www.aoiusa.org/reynolds-on-the-minarets-and-fr-sysoyev/ https://www.aoiusa.org/reynolds-on-the-minarets-and-fr-sysoyev/#comments Fri, 04 Dec 2009 18:54:06 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=4969 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 on the Washington Post’s On Faith blog, John Mark Reynolds wonders at the umbrage taken against the Swiss for voting a ban on new minarets — and the silence about the murder of a Russian priest in his church. Father Sysoyev is dead in Moscow, but by all means let us condemn the Swiss […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/reynolds-on-the-minarets-and-fr-sysoyev/feed/ 4 https://www.aoiusa.org/archbishop-hilarion-responds-to-u-s-state-dept-report-on-religious-freedom/ https://www.aoiusa.org/archbishop-hilarion-responds-to-u-s-state-dept-report-on-religious-freedom/#comments Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:36:21 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=4950 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 late October, the State Department released the 2009 Report on International Religious Freedom, a study annually submitted to Congress. Remarks on the study by Michael H. Posner, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, are available here. (The country report for Turkey is available here.) The Russian foreign ministry said, on publication […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/archbishop-hilarion-responds-to-u-s-state-dept-report-on-religious-freedom/feed/ 14 https://www.aoiusa.org/robert-p-george-on-the-manhattan-declaration/ https://www.aoiusa.org/robert-p-george-on-the-manhattan-declaration/#comments Wed, 02 Dec 2009 12:32:15 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=4936 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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Princeton professor Robert P. George, one of the drafters of the Manhattan Declaration, is interviewed by Kathryn Jean Lopez on National Review Online. LOPEZ: Why just Christians? GEORGE: For too long, the historic traditions of Catholicism, Evangelical Protestantism, and Eastern Orthodoxy have failed to speak formally with a united voice, despite their deep agreement on […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/robert-p-george-on-the-manhattan-declaration/feed/ 2 https://www.aoiusa.org/turkey-and-the-minaret-ban/ https://www.aoiusa.org/turkey-and-the-minaret-ban/#comments Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:56:38 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=4919 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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Not quite related but powerful nonetheless because of the artistic beauty of the music and architectural beauty of the Swiss village set in the stunning natural beauty of the Swiss Alps, this short video reveals two expressions of human creativity that will disappear if the light of Christianity that nurtured them is extinguished. Switzerland Update: […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/turkey-and-the-minaret-ban/feed/ 10