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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 Sat, 07 Sep 2013 14:24:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.3 https://www.aoiusa.org/an-open-letter-from-his-eminence-metropolitan-philip-to-president-obama/ https://www.aoiusa.org/an-open-letter-from-his-eminence-metropolitan-philip-to-president-obama/#comments Sat, 07 Sep 2013 14:24:05 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=13005 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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Metropolitan Philip is the leader of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese. September 6, 2013 President Barack Obama, The White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, DC Dear Mr. President: We write to you with a heavy heart having heard the recent news of the attack on the ancient Christian city of Maaloula, Syria by the rebel […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/an-open-letter-from-his-eminence-metropolitan-philip-to-president-obama/feed/ 8 https://www.aoiusa.org/how-the-west-is-helping-to-destroy-christianity-in-syria/ https://www.aoiusa.org/how-the-west-is-helping-to-destroy-christianity-in-syria/#comments Tue, 27 Aug 2013 04:18:15 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=12992 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: Alfred the Great Society | Robin Phillips Syrian Christianity goes back to the earliest days of the Christian faith, with language, traditions and practices that have remained largely unchanged since the time of Christ. Despite popular misconceptions, the nation of Syria is not an Islamic state. The Christian population living in Syria has enjoyed […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/how-the-west-is-helping-to-destroy-christianity-in-syria/feed/ 24 https://www.aoiusa.org/russian-orthodox-bishop-syrian-christians-facing-extermination/ https://www.aoiusa.org/russian-orthodox-bishop-syrian-christians-facing-extermination/#comments Sat, 03 Nov 2012 00:40:18 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=12338 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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Over at the Acton Institute blog, John Couretas writes about his recent interview with Russian Orthodox Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, about increasing Christian persecution around the world. One focus was the mid-east where the Western “Arab Spring” policy has in fact unleashed a torrent of […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/russian-orthodox-bishop-syrian-christians-facing-extermination/feed/ 10 https://www.aoiusa.org/fr-patrick-henry-reardon-delegation-to-syria/ https://www.aoiusa.org/fr-patrick-henry-reardon-delegation-to-syria/#comments Thu, 06 Oct 2011 03:01:27 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=11049 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: Antiochian Archdiocese | Fr. Patrick Henry Reardon During this past September 13-18, I was part of a delegation sent to Syria by Metropolitan PHILIP to investigate the internal political situation in that country, particularly with respect to its Christian minority. Our group consisted of six priests of the Antiochian Archdiocese: Fathers Dimitri Darwich (our […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/fr-patrick-henry-reardon-delegation-to-syria/feed/ 32 https://www.aoiusa.org/syria-nowhere-near-regime-change/ https://www.aoiusa.org/syria-nowhere-near-regime-change/#comments Fri, 29 Apr 2011 16:25:08 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=9919 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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Srdja Trifkovic offers trenchant analysis on world events for this reason: he is not bound to the liberal/neo-con vision of American foreign policy that justifies the invasion and domination of sovereign nations under the rubric that behind every dictator lies a nascent movement of political liberty waiting to emerge. This view is misguided idealism and […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/syria-nowhere-near-regime-change/feed/ 25 https://www.aoiusa.org/death-warrant-of-ancient-christianity/ https://www.aoiusa.org/death-warrant-of-ancient-christianity/#comments Tue, 12 Apr 2011 16:48:06 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=9732 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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If American liberals and neo-cons get their way and America invades Syria, the Syrian Christians will be persecuted and forced out of their ancient homeland. Source: Real Clear Politics | Philip Jenkins Ever since the wave of popular movements started sweeping the Middle East, Western media have rarely found much good to say about the […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/death-warrant-of-ancient-christianity/feed/ 13