Tag: Orthodox Church
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Medvedev Supports Religion Education in Schools
Patriarch Kirill offers a caution. From RIA Novosti: BARVIKHA, July 21 — Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday expressed his support for a proposal to teach religious education in Russian state schools. He also backed the suggestion that chaplains should be employed in Russia’s armed forces. “I decided to support both proposals,” the president said…
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Report: Religious artifacts in Cyprus in ‘great peril’
A report in the Washington Times by Julia Duin: Religious artifacts on the divided island of Cyprus are in “great peril,” according to a U.S. Helsinki Commission document to be released Tuesday afternoon. Thousands of Orthodox icons, manuscripts, frescoes and mosaics have been looted from churches, chapels and monasteries in northern Cyprus, ending up on…
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Bishop Savas Launching New Blog
Bishop Savas, head of the Greek Orthodox Office of Society and Culture, is starting a new blog called Living in the LOGOSphere (no posts yet). He told Greek News that the new blog “will have a different, less personal, less whimsical character” than the travel diary blog he authored last year. Readers of the AOI…
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Church Landscape Begins to Change in North America
Ed. We tend to avoid speculation at AOI blog but this tidbit caught our eye. HT: Orthodox England. As a result of a teleconference on 1 July, the Holy Synod of the Orthodox Church in America has divided its Washington and New York Diocese into two. This means that it has changed the title of…