Tag: Orthodox Church
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Helping Macrina
From Fr. Gregory Jensen (Koinonia) Of the many reasons I keep a blog, one central reason is that it allows me to meet many, many people and to introduce them to the Orthodox Church. Most of the people I meet online never become Orthodox–but some do. Among those who have is Macrina Walker who, until…
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The post-Orthodox Orthodox?
Alexi Giannoulias, Illinois Democratic nominee for US Senator, supports homosexual marriage. Here’s the introduction from the Greek Star (a Chicago newspaper with Greek readership): Alexi Giannoulias, Democratic nominee for US Senator, shares why he supports the freedom to marry for all, including people of the same sex. This is something that many of his supporters,…
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Archdiocesan Council VP Calls for More English in Church Services
National Herald By Theodore Kalmoukos During his address to the 40th Clergy-Laity Congress in Atlanta, Georgia Archdiocesan Council Vice-President Michael Jaharis advocated increased use of the English language and greater efforts to reach out to the youth, converts, and Greek Americans not currently active in the Church.ATLANTA — Archdiocesan Council Vice-President Michael Jaharis proposed using…
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China: Expo, the Orthodox celebrate St. John of Shanghai
At the Expo, the Chinese authorities allow the Orthodox community to celebrate regular prayer services. Local communist officials also present at the ceremony commemorating the saint, who reunited the Orthodox community in the early thirties. Shanghai (AsiaNews) – The small Chinese Orthodox community have celebrated St. John of Shanghai with a “moleben,” a solemn liturgy.…
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Russian Orthodox Church raises fears over pro-gay Protestant Churches
Virtue Online Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia has told the head of the World Council of Churches of his concerns over the position of some Protestant Churches towards homosexuality. WCC General Secretary Dr Olav Fykse Tveit met the Patriarch in Moscow today as part of his first visit to the Russian Orthodox Church…