• International scientific conference on protection of environment and culture in Halki seminary
    Tuesday, August 31, 2021 from OCL
    Source: Orthodox Times On Sunday, September 5, 2021, with the blessing of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, the international scientific conference “Ecumenical Initiative for the Protection of the Environment and Culture” will take place...
  • Archbishop Elpidophoros Announces New Priest for the Saint Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church and National Shrine at the World Trade Center
    Monday, August 30, 2021 from OCL
    Source: Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America New York, NY – Today, His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America announced his appointment for the new proïstamenos (presiding priest) for the Saint Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church and...
  • Orthodoxy & Evangelism: Educational Event and Book Launch – October 2
    Monday, August 30, 2021 from OCL
    Orthodoxy & Evangelism Flyer Source: St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary Saturday 10/02/2021 – 10:00 am In-Person & Online Event Saint Vladimir’s Seminary is hitting the road and heading to Cleveland this fall. On Saturday, October 2, 2021,...
  • Occasional Paper #11: Orthodox Christian Laity Correspondence with Archbishop Elpidophoros Regarding the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America
    Monday, August 30, 2021 from OCL
    Source: Orthodox Christian Laity CLICK HERE or on the image below to view the PDF
  • UPCOMING OPPORTUNITIES: 5TH ANNUAL NATIONAL ORTHODOX ADVANCED LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE / PEER LEARNING
    Monday, August 30, 2021 from OCL
    Source: Orthodox Christian Leadership Initiative REGISTER HERE The Orthodox Christian Leadership Initiative exists to nurture and empower Orthodox Christian servant leadership. It is a national initiative to increase generosity, servant...
  • Letter from Archbishop Elpidophoros to the Archdiocesan Advisory Committee on the Charter
    Monday, August 30, 2021 from OCL
    CLICK HERE or on the image below to view the PDF
  • Assembly of Bishops USA Announces 10th Anniversary Meeting
    Monday, August 30, 2021 from OCL
    Source: Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops of the USA NEW YORK – The Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops of the United States of America announced that its 10th Annual Assembly of Bishops Meeting will be held October 2-5, 2021 in...
  • Memory Eternal: Protopresbyter Leonid Kishkovsky, Director of External Affairs and Interchurch Relations for the Orthodox Church in America (OCA)
    Monday, August 30, 2021 from OCL
    Source: Orthodox Church in America Sea Cliff, NY [OCA] – On Tuesday evening, August 3, 2021, Protopresbyter Leonid Kishkovsky, longtime Director of External Affairs and Interchurch Relations for the Orthodox Church in America (OCA)...
  • Bartholomew’s response to those who dream of the Ecumenical Patriarchate “as the Vatican of Orthodoxy”
    Monday, August 30, 2021 from OCL
    Source: Orthodox Times Originally published on June 30, 2021 The Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew gave a strong response to those who – as he stated- forget the truth that “Our Lord Jesus Christ is the greatest power of the Church, and...
  • IOTA Lectures Launched: Series on Deification Available on the IOTA YouTube Channel
    Monday, August 30, 2021 from OCL
    Source: International Orthodox Theological Association In 2020-2021, IOTA held several online international colloquia on the historical and theological aspects of deification. Given the importance of the topic of deification, we are...
  • Ecumenical Patriarch: Hierarchs who would like to succeed me see the glory, but there is the other side of the coin
    Sunday, August 29, 2021 from OCL
    Source: Orthodox Times Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew gave an interview to MEGA channel. Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew referred to the persecutions the Greeks are still subjected to in Turkey, called on the people to be vaccinated...
  • Making of the Mosaic – Racial Reconciliation in the Orthodox Church
    Tuesday, August 24, 2021 from OCL
    Source: CrossRoad Institute – Orthodox Youth Take the Challenge by Fr. Turbo Qualls CR Guest Speaker In the patriarchal cathedral of St. Sava in Belgrade, the world’s largest mosaic is all but complete. This has been hailed...
  • A supercomputer's Covid-19 analysis yields a new way to understand the virus
    Wednesday, September 2, 2020 from OrthodoxChristianity.net
    Putting this here because public health issues are part of family care. https://elemental.medium.com/a-supercomputer-analyzed-covid-19-and-an-interesting-new-theory-has-emerged-31cb8eba9d63
  • Re: Random Postings
    Wednesday, September 2, 2020 from OrthodoxChristianity.net
    Happy birthday to theistgal and iconodule
  • Re: Martial Arts and Orthodoxy
    Wednesday, September 2, 2020 from OrthodoxChristianity.net
    Quote from: Jude1:3 on Yesterday at 09:51:35 PM I try to just ignore the spiritual side of martial arts and just focus on the physical self defense aspects. I like grappling and instructional videos. I made it to 2 stripe ...
  • Re: Martial Arts and Orthodoxy
    Wednesday, September 2, 2020 from OrthodoxChristianity.net
  • Re: What does everyone look like?
    Wednesday, September 2, 2020 from OrthodoxChristianity.net
    Quote from: RaphaCam on Yesterday at 07:02:51 PM Cool skull shape. I take after my Dad:
  • Judaism and Russian Orthodoxy: A Russian cleric’s turn of phrase evokes some dark memories
    Sunday, December 3, 2017 from Eastern Orthodox Church
    Main image:  THIS has been a roller-coaster week in relations between Judaism and Russian Orthodoxy. It started when one of the country’s best-known clerics, a man regarded as personally close...
  • Monarchy and the Russian diaspora: Arcane arguments about Russia’s sovereigns could go mainstream
    Monday, October 30, 2017 from Eastern Orthodox Church
    Main image:  AS A colleague writes in this week’s print edition, Vladimir Putin is in certain ways more comparable to an absolute monarch than to a constitutionally elected political leader, who might be hemmed by checks and...
  • Religious diplomacy: The Vatican’s secretary of state visits Moscow for the first time in 19 years
    Friday, August 25, 2017 from Eastern Orthodox Church
    Main image:  CARDINAL Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s secretary of state, has just made a four-day trip to Russia. It was the first time in 19 years that a holder of that powerful office, sometimes described as “prime minister” of...
  • Christianity and the bomb: How Christianity has dealt with nuclear weapons
    Sunday, August 20, 2017 from Eastern Orthodox Church
    WHERE have Christians stood in the debate about nuclear weapons? How have practitioners of the world’s most popular religion answered the moral dilemmas posed by devices that could bring all human life to a horrific end? Given that the...
  • Praying together, staying together: The axis between Russian Orthodox and American evangelicals is intact
    Friday, July 14, 2017 from Eastern Orthodox Church
    While some people fear that relations between Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and their respective entourages have been too warm and cosy, others feel that those relations ought to be even closer.Advocates of closer ties include American...
  • Religion after communism: Eastern Europe’s patriotic faith
    Sunday, May 14, 2017 from Eastern Orthodox Church
    Main image:  Especially observed from afar, Europe is often viewed as a continent where traditional forms of Christianity are dwindling fast, and the only kinds of faith which flourish are those brought by recent arrivals,...
  • Badgering the Witnesses: Russia bans the Jehovah’s Witnesses, just as the Soviet Union did
    Thursday, April 27, 2017 from Eastern Orthodox Church
    Print section Print Rubric:  A pacifist sect banned by the Soviets is banned again Print Headline:  Badgering the Witnesses Print Fly Title:  Religious repression in Russia UK Only Article:  standard...
  • A Slavic scholar: Francysk Skaryna, the Martin Luther of Belarus
    Tuesday, January 31, 2017 from Eastern Orthodox Church
    Main image:  THIS year, the 500th anniversary of his “95 Theses on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences”, Martin Luther’s legacy is being re-examined. A cacophony of events, ranging from exhibitions to church services, will...
  • Ecclesiastical diplomacy: A new Orthodox church next to the Eiffel Tower boosts Russian soft power
    Monday, December 5, 2016 from Eastern Orthodox Church
    Main image:  THE skyline of Paris has just acquired yet another arresting feature. Only a stone’s throw from the Eiffel Tower, a spanking new Russian Orthodox cathedral, complete with five onion domes and a cultural centre, was...
  • Common cause no more: Conservative American Christians cancel a conference in Moscow
    Tuesday, August 9, 2016 from Eastern Orthodox Church
    RELATIONS between American evangelicals and the powers that be in Russia, whether worldly or spiritual, have had their ups and downs over the years. It was at a conference of the National Association of Evangelicals in...
  • The Economist explains: Why Orthodox patriarchs are meeting after centuries
    Wednesday, June 22, 2016 from Eastern Orthodox Church
    THERE are some religious statements about the world which made history and affected the way people millions of people thought. One was in Pacem in Terris, a denunciation of war issued in 1963 by a dying Pope John XXIII; an earlier...
  • Orthodoxy and Ukraine: As Orthodox leaders gather in Crete, Ukraine calls for an independent church
    Thursday, June 16, 2016 from Eastern Orthodox Church
    ONLY a few hours ago, Orthodox Christian bishops from many countries were preparing smoothly enough for an historic gathering in Crete which although diminished by some last-minute withdrawals will still be a huge landmark in the history...
  • Orthodox Christian summit: The autumn of the patriarchs
    Thursday, June 16, 2016 from Eastern Orthodox Church
    Print section UK Only Article:  standard article Issue:  Divided we fall Fly Title:  Orthodox Christian summit Main image:  20160618_EUD001_0.jpg IN THE early centuries of eastern Christian history,...
  • Paschal: An ancient Orthodox Easter rite engenders new and old passions
    Sunday, May 1, 2016 from Eastern Orthodox Church
    FROM the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem to the Russian Arctic, millions of Orthodox Christians have been celebrating Easter this weekend, in a passionate cycle of lamentation, anticipation and candle-lit jubilation. And...
  • Islam, interment and Greece: Burying drowned migrants is part of a broader Greek problem
    Wednesday, April 20, 2016 from Eastern Orthodox Church
    THE newly established graveyard, a short drive west of Mytilene port, is a desperately sad place. In the middle of an olive grove, there are dozens of mounds of crumbly earth, some created...
  • Orthodox Christianity: Eastern Christian leaders face ultra-conservative grumbles as they prepare for a summit
    Sunday, March 6, 2016 from Eastern Orthodox Church
    AS ORTHODOX Christian leaders prepare for what has been billed as their most important gathering for centuries, they have many problems to wrestle with. One, as widely reported already, is the chronically uneasy relationship between the...
  • Russia and the pope: Did the pope just kiss Putin’s ring?
    Monday, February 15, 2016 from Eastern Orthodox Church
    Print section UK Only Article:  standard article Fly Title:  Russia and the pope Main image:  20160220_eup501.jpg TO HIS millions of admirers, Pope Francis seems possessed of an almost angelic spirituality. But...
  • Catholicism and Russian Orthodoxy: From the New World, a pope and a patriarch address old-world fights
    Saturday, February 13, 2016 from Eastern Orthodox Church
    GEOPOLITICS and spirituality have always intersected at strange angles. Millions of ordinary Christian believers, most of whom feel bewildered by ecclesiastical high politics, will take heart from the simple fact that two globally...
  • The Economist explains: The differences between the Catholic and Orthodox churches
    Friday, February 12, 2016 from Eastern Orthodox Church
    TO A non-Christian, or even to a Christian who prefers to keep doctrine and worship as simple as possible, the Catholic and Orthodox churches can look pretty similar. Both use elaborate ceremonies of ancient origin and...
  • Popes and patriarchs: A Catholic-Orthodox meeting is spectacular but not unprecedented
    Sunday, February 7, 2016 from Eastern Orthodox Church
    THE announcement of a meeting between Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, due to take place in Cuba on February 12th, is certainly a spectacular moment in inter-church diplomacy. But contrary to many reports that have appeared...
  • Russian Orthodoxy and journalism: A maverick voice in Russia’s national church loses his job
    Wednesday, December 23, 2015 from Eastern Orthodox Church
    CONTRARY to some impressions, Russian Orthodoxy is not, or not yet, a political monolith. Nor is it an army marching in perfect obedience to President Vladimir Putin. In some ways, its ranks include more openly expressed diversity than...
  • Kosovo and UNESCO: A setback for Kosovo amid bitter rows over its ancient churches
    Wednesday, November 11, 2015 from Eastern Orthodox Church
    THERE is something supremely changeless about the daily rites of an Orthodox Christian monastery, such as the 700-year-old community of Visoki Decani on the western fringe of Kosovo, which occupies one of the most aesthetically graceful,...
  • Russia, Syria and holy war: Some Middle Eastern Christians are speaking up against “holy war” in Syria
    Wednesday, October 21, 2015 from Eastern Orthodox Church
    AT THE beginning of this month, when Russian jet fighters went into action in Syria, it was widely reported that Russia and its national church had proclaimed a "holy war" against Islamic State. In the Western world, some...
  • Religious education in Greece: Greece's ruling leftists soften their secularism
    Sunday, October 11, 2015 from Eastern Orthodox Church
    ALL over Greece, from the Ionian islands to the border villages of Thrace, youngsters aged between five and 17 are settling down to a year of schooling whose content is carefully mandated by the ministry of education. And for the great...
  • A New Public Protest on the Demolition of the Church of St. Athanasius in Dhermi – Albania
    Saturday, September 12, 2015 from News | Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE
    The Albanian Orthodox Church – September 2015 Official government institutions across the country have declared that the Orthodox Autocephalous Church of Albania did not complain about the events concerning the demolition of the...
  • Meditation on Peace by Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem II
    Saturday, September 12, 2015 from News | Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE
    September 2015 – FB Page of Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem II Tirana/Albania: His Holiness Patriarch Moran Mor Ignatius Aphrem II gave a meditation on peace “I have overcome the world”, at the closing session of the...
  • O you Apostles from afar…
    Saturday, September 12, 2015 from News | Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE
    BR1 Orthodox Mission Fraternity – September 2015 It sounds like a gentle touch that brings back childhood memories, somewhere in our home country, in the small picturesque church or the beauteous parish church, but always within the...
  • Great blessings for the Sumatra Mission
    Saturday, September 12, 2015 from News | Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE
    Indonesia3 Orthodox Mission Fraternity – September 2015 Dear Friends of the Mission, With God’s help we do well. I would like to write about some of our news here in Indonesia. In the first half of July we were visited by our venerable...
  • Missionary tour in West Africa
    Saturday, September 12, 2015 from News | Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE
    Infant cleaning by the Prevention Service against Ebola CC-BY United Nations Photo Orthodox Mission Fraternity – September 2015 Since the day the worst outbreak of Ebola struck West Africa, the few airlines that flew there have greatly limited the number of their flights. Others felt it right to suspend air...
  • Patriarchal blessing at the closing of the European Orthodox Youth Meeting
    Saturday, September 12, 2015 from News | Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE
    September 2015 Also Read – European Youth Procession in Cluj-Napoca In the presence of His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of Romania, and of the other hierarchs from home and abroad, the closing festivity of the European Orthodox...
  • The Patriarch of Romania celebrated the Divine Liturgy in Cluj-Napoca
    Saturday, September 12, 2015 from News | Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE
    His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church, officiated at Divine Liturgy on 06 September 2015, on the 14th Sunday after Pentecost, on the scene placed next to the Metropolitan Cathedral in Cluj-Napoca, during the...
  • SVOTS Chancellor’s Keynote Address at SYNDESMOS Youth Conference
    Friday, September 11, 2015 from News | Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE
    September 2015 View the photo gallery on Oca.org Seminary Chancellor/CEO the Very Reverend Dr. Chad Hatfield recently delivered the keynote address at the international Orthodox youth festival  titled “Attaining...
  • Orthodox Education Day: “East Meets East”
    Friday, September 11, 2015 from News | Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE
    September 2015 “East Meets East” is the theme for St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary’s annual Orthodox Education Day on October 3, 2015. The seminary’s yearly open house and fall festival will celebrate the relationship between...
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