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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 Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:26:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.3 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/ecumenical-patriarch-bartholomew-unity-in-gods-time/ https://www.aoiusa.org/ecumenical-patriarch-bartholomew-unity-in-gods-time/#comments Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:47:33 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=3797 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 “Unity as Calling, Conversion and Mission,” the opening address of His All Holiness the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew to the Plenary of the World Council of Churches’ Commission on Faith and Order event, “Called to be One Church” (Crete, Greece, October 7, 2009): We should not be frustrated by our human limitations, which unfortunately determine […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/ecumenical-patriarch-bartholomew-unity-in-gods-time/feed/ 4 https://www.aoiusa.org/ecumenical-patriarch-bartholomew-to-open-meeting-on-christian-unity/ https://www.aoiusa.org/ecumenical-patriarch-bartholomew-to-open-meeting-on-christian-unity/#comments Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:51:46 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=3726 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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News (Sept. 28, 2009) from the World Council of Churches: Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I will open the meeting of the World Council of Churches (WCC) Commission on Faith and Order, which will take place in Kolympari, Crete, Greece, from 7 to 14 October 2009. At this plenary meeting, the 120 members of the commission, which […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/ecumenical-patriarch-bartholomew-to-open-meeting-on-christian-unity/feed/ 5 https://www.aoiusa.org/a-common-date-for-pascha/ https://www.aoiusa.org/a-common-date-for-pascha/#comments Thu, 28 May 2009 16:30:21 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=2378 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 Associated Press has a story out of the World Council of Churches about deliberations toward a common date for Pascha/Easter. The story was based, in part, on this release from the WCC. From the AP: Under the plan the unified Easter usually falls as it would under the Gregorian calendar used by Catholics and […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/a-common-date-for-pascha/feed/ 2 https://www.aoiusa.org/wccs-homespun-economic-fallacy/ https://www.aoiusa.org/wccs-homespun-economic-fallacy/#respond Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:42:38 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=456 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 World Council of Churches, which claims to speak for most Orthodox Churches around the globe, has formulated a number of proposals to reform the global financial system because of its inherent “injustice.” General Secretary Samuel Kobia sees the need for new transnational financial watchdog organizations that will “qualitatively regulate the growth in massive movements […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/wccs-homespun-economic-fallacy/feed/ 0 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/bishop-hilarion-alfeyev-liberal-christianity-will-not-survive-for-a-long-time/ https://www.aoiusa.org/bishop-hilarion-alfeyev-liberal-christianity-will-not-survive-for-a-long-time/#respond Sat, 16 Feb 2008 20:40:39 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=30 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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Address at the opening session of the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches, Geneva, 13 February 2008. Source: Europaica I would like to draw your attention to the danger of liberal Christianity. The liberalization of moral standards, initiated by some Protestant and Anglican communities several decades ago and developing with ever-increasing speed, has […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/bishop-hilarion-alfeyev-liberal-christianity-will-not-survive-for-a-long-time/feed/ 0