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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 Thu, 12 May 2011 19:12:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.3 https://www.aoiusa.org/bartholomew-i-%e2%80%9cpeace-is-a-matter-of-choice%e2%80%9d/ https://www.aoiusa.org/bartholomew-i-%e2%80%9cpeace-is-a-matter-of-choice%e2%80%9d/#comments Wed, 11 May 2011 04:19:46 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=9941 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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This is sure to warm the heart of religious liberals who are always on prowl looking for new ways to establish their righteousness. Global warming is disintegrating like the Death Star penetrated by Luke Skywalker’s missile and another cause has to be found quick. Maybe they can dust off the ‘peacemaker’ jargon. It has a […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/bartholomew-i-%e2%80%9cpeace-is-a-matter-of-choice%e2%80%9d/feed/ 2 https://www.aoiusa.org/met-hilarion-our-concern-is-to-preserve-and-consolidate-unity-of-russian-orthodox-church/ https://www.aoiusa.org/met-hilarion-our-concern-is-to-preserve-and-consolidate-unity-of-russian-orthodox-church/#respond Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:58:37 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=7254 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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On July 17, 2010, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations, speaking in Church and World talk show, answered questions from anchorman Ivan Semenov concerning the work of the DECR as a church external policy department. – Does an Orthodox Christian in his everyday life ever encounter the […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/met-hilarion-our-concern-is-to-preserve-and-consolidate-unity-of-russian-orthodox-church/feed/ 0 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/progressive-christianity%e2%80%99s-habit-of-%e2%80%98embracing-the-tormenters%e2%80%99/ https://www.aoiusa.org/progressive-christianity%e2%80%99s-habit-of-%e2%80%98embracing-the-tormenters%e2%80%99/#respond Wed, 26 May 2010 15:52:55 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=6783 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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The Institute on Religion & Democracy’s Faith McDonnell: Conducting “truth commissions” to denounce American armed forces and organizing divestment campaigns to cripple Israel are vital issues to some American church officials. Raising the banner of Intifada and expressing solidarity with Palestinians are also very important to this collection of liberal leaders. They “spiritualize” the Democratic […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/progressive-christianity%e2%80%99s-habit-of-%e2%80%98embracing-the-tormenters%e2%80%99/feed/ 0 https://www.aoiusa.org/orthodoxy-trivialized-in-wcc-public-relations-stunt/ https://www.aoiusa.org/orthodoxy-trivialized-in-wcc-public-relations-stunt/#comments Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:15:06 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=4553 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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From Brietbart: The World Council of Churches on Thursday called on churches around the world to ring their bells 350 times during the Copenhagen climate change summit on December 13 as a call to action on global warming. The leading council of Christian and Orthodox churches also invited places of worship for other faiths to […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/orthodoxy-trivialized-in-wcc-public-relations-stunt/feed/ 35 https://www.aoiusa.org/bp-hilarion-russian-orthodox-must-stay-in-wcc/ https://www.aoiusa.org/bp-hilarion-russian-orthodox-must-stay-in-wcc/#respond Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:54:32 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=68 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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Moscow, June 30, Interfax – Withdrawal of the Russian Orthodox Church from the World Council of Churches should weaken positions of Moscow Patriarchate in the inter-Orthodox dialogue, the representative of Russian Church in European international organizations believes. “This withdrawal may only weaken our positions today in defending the Church teaching which we consider traditional, which […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/bp-hilarion-russian-orthodox-must-stay-in-wcc/feed/ 0 https://www.aoiusa.org/orthodox-women-in-the-ecumenical-movement/ https://www.aoiusa.org/orthodox-women-in-the-ecumenical-movement/#respond Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:42:34 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/2008/06/27/orthodox-women-in-the-ecumenical-movement/ 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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An Inter-Orthodox Consultation, under the auspices of the World Council of Churches, held a program titled, “Participation of Orthodox Women in the Ecumenical Movement: Past, Present, Future” at the Volos Academy for Theological Studies, Greece, from June 8-12. The meeting brought together some 45 women from Eastern and Oriental Orthodox Churches in Europe, the Middle […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/orthodox-women-in-the-ecumenical-movement/feed/ 0