Tag: Russian Orthodox Church
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Patriarch Kirill & Pope Benedict: A Tale of Two Leaders for a new Missionary Age
I’ve been asked to become an Orthodox columnist on Catholic.org and accepted. Below is my first essay. Regular readers will notice ideas we discussed on the AOI Observer. +++++++++++++++++ Catholic Online (www.catholic.org) NAPLES, FL. (Catholic Online) – Over four decades ago Pope John Paul II said that the restoration of the Russian Orthodox Church was…
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Metropolitan Hilarion: Christianity is a religion of the people of spirit
Many ask: what does it mean to be a Christian? This is what we read in the 3d century manuscript known as ‘A Letter to Diognetus’ and ascribed to St. Justin the Martyr: ‘there is something extraordinary about their lives. They live in their own countries as though they were only passing through. They play…
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“Christian Family – a ‘little church’ and a basis of healthy society.”
Final document of the plenary session of the Christian Interconfessional Consultative Committee of the CIS and Baltic countries, Moscow, 4 February 2010 4.02.2010 · Analitics, Inter-Christian relations, New documents Christian Churches of the CIS and Baltic countries, in a plenary session of the Christian Interconfessional Consultative Committee of the CIS and Baltic countries held in…
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Russia acquires land near Eiffel Tower, plans Orthodox center
The Russian Orthodox Church is on a roll! Russia has defeated Canada and Saudi Arabia in a tender for a plot of land in downtown Paris and will build a spiritual and cultural center on the banks of the Seine River near the Eiffel Tower. France’s Budget Ministry said in a statement on Monday that…
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Russian church leaders defend marriage, speak out on family crisis
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…