Tag: News
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Fr. Hopko at Hope College, Feb. 23-24
Fr. Thomas Hopko, an advisor to AOI, will be speaking at an event titled “Encountering Eastern Orthodoxy: An Introduction to the Faith and Life of the Eastern Orthodox Christian Church” at Hope College in Holland, Mich. The two-day program (Feb. 23-24) “will examine the Orthodox Christian faith as a way of life.” The event is…
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Glad we got that one solved
HT: The Economist
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Battle for the ‘Soul of Orthodoxy’ in the UK?
Writing for the Independent, a UK newspaper, Paul Vallely looks at a legal battle over control of an Orthodox cathedral. The power struggle, he writes, began with an influx of Russian immigrants to the United Kingdom and their clash with an assimilated, diverse Orthodox community. “Huge numbers arrived,” says one of the parishioners, Ruth Nares,…
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Russia welcomes Patriarch Kirill
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zbtVDt1NgQ[/youtube] In the Moscow Times, Leonid Sevastyanov and Robert Moynihan write that the new Russian Patriarch Kirill “has deep convictions about the role of the Christian faith in the future of Russia and about Russia’s role in the future of Europe and the world.” The writers say that the Patriarch is convinced that only a…