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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 Wed, 27 Apr 2011 22:02:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.3 https://www.aoiusa.org/orthodox-churches-object-to-national-identity-cards/ https://www.aoiusa.org/orthodox-churches-object-to-national-identity-cards/#comments Wed, 27 Apr 2011 22:02:33 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=9907 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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First of all, let’s dispense with the pejoratives: Conservative and nationalist wings within the churches have held demonstrations in Athens and Moscow and claim that the cards will compromise national and religious identity. Many have gone so far as to say that identity numbers such as 666 are the “mark of the beast” from the […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/orthodox-churches-object-to-national-identity-cards/feed/ 8 https://www.aoiusa.org/pat-kirill-paschal-message-2011/ https://www.aoiusa.org/pat-kirill-paschal-message-2011/#respond Sat, 23 Apr 2011 17:01:29 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=9853 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: Department for External Church Relations of the Russian Orthodox Church Beloved in the Lord archpastors, all-honourable presbyters and deacons, God-loving monks and nuns, dear brothers and sisters! From my heart filled with gratitude towards God, I proclaim to all of you the great and saving news: CHRIST IS RISEN! With each year the Church […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/pat-kirill-paschal-message-2011/feed/ 0 https://www.aoiusa.org/pat-kirills-book-to-be-published-in-english/ https://www.aoiusa.org/pat-kirills-book-to-be-published-in-english/#comments Mon, 11 Apr 2011 12:18:02 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=9720 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: Department for External Church Relations of the Russian Orthodox Church | HT: Byzantine, TX (mospat.ru) – On 11 April 2011, the English edition of the book “Freedom and Responsibility. A Search for Harmony – Human Rights and Personal Dignity” written by His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia will be presented at […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/pat-kirills-book-to-be-published-in-english/feed/ 2 https://www.aoiusa.org/russian-orthodox-church-raises-fears-over-pro-gay-protestant-churches/ https://www.aoiusa.org/russian-orthodox-church-raises-fears-over-pro-gay-protestant-churches/#respond Tue, 06 Jul 2010 10:09:17 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=7135 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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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 […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/russian-orthodox-church-raises-fears-over-pro-gay-protestant-churches/feed/ 0 https://www.aoiusa.org/russian-bells-ring-in-egypt/ https://www.aoiusa.org/russian-bells-ring-in-egypt/#comments Fri, 16 Apr 2010 12:08:27 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=6377 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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Russian bells ring in Egyptian Monasteries The peal of Russian bells will shortly spread in the neighbourhood of the Egyptian capital, Cairo. The head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill presented a group of bells to an ancient Greek, which were especially cast for this purpose by the smiths of the old Russian city […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/russian-bells-ring-in-egypt/feed/ 7 https://www.aoiusa.org/his-holiness-patriarch-kirill%e2%80%99s-statement-on-terrorist-acts-at-the-moscow-metro/ https://www.aoiusa.org/his-holiness-patriarch-kirill%e2%80%99s-statement-on-terrorist-acts-at-the-moscow-metro/#respond Thu, 01 Apr 2010 01:46:53 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=6190 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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His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia made the following statement on the terrorist acts at the Moscow Metro on 29 March 2010. My heart pains over the terrorist acts at the Moscow Metro this morning. I am praying for the rest of the victims’ souls, for consolation of their near and dear, […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/his-holiness-patriarch-kirill%e2%80%99s-statement-on-terrorist-acts-at-the-moscow-metro/feed/ 0 https://www.aoiusa.org/faith-to-faith-russian-patriarch-ending-landmark-armenia-visit/ https://www.aoiusa.org/faith-to-faith-russian-patriarch-ending-landmark-armenia-visit/#comments Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:43:53 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=6128 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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ArmeniaNow.com Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill is completing today his three-day visit to Armenia during which he and his Armenian counterpart accentuated the strong bonds between the two churches and peoples. As part of the visit staged at the invitation of the Catholicos of All Armenians, the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/faith-to-faith-russian-patriarch-ending-landmark-armenia-visit/feed/ 2 https://www.aoiusa.org/russian-church-leaders-defend-marriage-speak-out-on-family-crisis/ https://www.aoiusa.org/russian-church-leaders-defend-marriage-speak-out-on-family-crisis/#comments Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:42:36 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=5818 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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Russian Orthodox Church leaders called on Christians on Thursday to be firm in defending traditional marriage and lamented the family crisis in the country. According to some estimates, over half of the marriages in Russia end in divorce. Women in the 140-million-strong country undergo some 1.5 million abortions annually. “We, Christians of different denominations, should […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/russian-church-leaders-defend-marriage-speak-out-on-family-crisis/feed/ 2 https://www.aoiusa.org/pat-kirill-on-chambesy/ https://www.aoiusa.org/pat-kirill-on-chambesy/#comments Thu, 04 Feb 2010 03:48:13 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=5815 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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Patriarch Kirill: Every manifestation of Orthodox unity is our common glory, common joy, while a want of unity and every tension, every conflict in the global Orthodox family is a common pain and common defeat The Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church pointed to the support of fraternal relations within the family of Local Orthodox […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/pat-kirill-on-chambesy/feed/ 12 https://www.aoiusa.org/russian-orthodox-church-sets-out-to-be-first-among-equals/ https://www.aoiusa.org/russian-orthodox-church-sets-out-to-be-first-among-equals/#respond Sat, 30 Jan 2010 12:39:12 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=5711 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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Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty H/T: St. Andrew House Discussion Forum Is the Russian Orthodox Church set to launch a "new crusade" — at home and abroad? Father Daniel Sysoyev, a prominent Russian missionary, recently urged the opening of an Orthodox "base" in Kyrgyzstan from which to launch a proselytizing "offensive" across mostly Muslim […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/russian-orthodox-church-sets-out-to-be-first-among-equals/feed/ 0 https://www.aoiusa.org/catholic-herald-in-russia-the-path-to-unity-is-defrosting/ https://www.aoiusa.org/catholic-herald-in-russia-the-path-to-unity-is-defrosting/#comments Fri, 29 Jan 2010 22:43:43 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=5689 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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Roman Catholic reporting about union between Rome and Orthodoxy tends to be over optimistic. The Catholics seem to want union much more than the Orthodox do. A clearer assessment might be that Moscow sees cooperation with Rome as necessary to re-Christianize Europe, to help Europe rediscover its moral and religious moorings. Nevertheless, a significant thaw […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/catholic-herald-in-russia-the-path-to-unity-is-defrosting/feed/ 3 https://www.aoiusa.org/patriarch-bartholomew-will-visit-russia-in-may/ https://www.aoiusa.org/patriarch-bartholomew-will-visit-russia-in-may/#comments Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:30:19 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=5468 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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It’s no secret that Moscow doesn’t take kindly to Pat. Bartholomew’s claims of universal authority (see: A Letter To The Ecumenical Patriarch Concerning The Situation Of The Diaspora by Patriarch Alexios written in 2005) so the sentence below “within the canonical order that was installed over centuries of church tradition” (quotes in Russian original) undoubtedly […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/patriarch-bartholomew-will-visit-russia-in-may/feed/ 24 https://www.aoiusa.org/wave-of-clergy-killings-in-russia-2/ https://www.aoiusa.org/wave-of-clergy-killings-in-russia-2/#respond Sat, 02 Jan 2010 22:45:34 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=5335 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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Voice of America. H/T Orthodox News Twenty-six Orthodox priests murdered since 1990, including 39-year-old Alexander Filippov on Tuesday 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 […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/wave-of-clergy-killings-in-russia-2/feed/ 0 https://www.aoiusa.org/patriarch-kirill-believes-main-achievement-of-august-1991-is-revival-of-faith/ https://www.aoiusa.org/patriarch-kirill-believes-main-achievement-of-august-1991-is-revival-of-faith/#comments Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:59:36 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=4020 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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Kursk, September 24, Interfax – Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia believes that the main achievement of August 1991 is revival of religious life and end of atheistic persecutions in Russia. “Perhaps, the Lord allowed destroying churches, insulting shrines, shedding blood and suffering in order to open divine logics of life and mystery of […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/patriarch-kirill-believes-main-achievement-of-august-1991-is-revival-of-faith/feed/ 2