Tag: News
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Report: Turkey to reopen Halki Seminary
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,…
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Orthodoxy in America — Past, Present and FUTURE
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AsiaNews: ‘Historic’ decision in Chambésy
On the Roman Catholic site AsiaNews, Nat da Polis files a report on the Fourth Pre-Conciliar meeting of Orthodox hierarchs who assembled last week in Switzerland to discuss the problem of the “diaspora.” Da Polis views the pending trip of Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill to the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Istanbul as a “significant step” in…
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Moscow: No Episcopal ‘Monopoly’
More on the episcopal assemblies announced at the pre-conciliar meeting last week in Switzerland: “Anti-monopoly” proposals of the Moscow Patriarchate are taken into account in Chambesy Moscow, June 15, Interfax – The Fourth Pan-Orthodox Pre-Council Conference in Chambesy (Switzerland) has agreed in its final decision to the need of equal management of the Orthodox Diaspora…