... others were closed. Several communities in Latin America want to join the Orthodox Church in America. We would be happy to take these believers, but there is no one to care ... in El Salvador, there are many Palestinians. Curiously, they do not go to the parishes of the Antiochian Church, and have been asking to be accepted under our omophorion. The Ecumenical and Antiochian Patriarchates prefer to ...

... ;Holiness Church," or "Jehovah's Witnesses," your religion is one of the hundreds ... shared the same rich apostolic and doctrinal heritage as the Orthodox Church for the first thousand years of its history, since during the first millennium ... Christ, the Son of God. It has not changed since that time. Our church is now almost 2,000 years old. And it is for this reason, that Orthodoxy ...

The Greek Orthodox church of Cyprus has sued Turkey in a European court for allegedly preventing worship at religious sites ... the divided island's breakaway Turkish Cypriot north, a church lawyer said Monday. The lawsuit with the European Court of Human Rights concerns 520 churches, monasteries, chapels and cemeteries the church lost when Turkey invaded in 1974, after a coup by supporters of ...

... of the authorities’ investigation into an explosion inside an Orthodox church in Vladimir is believed to be a member of a pagan group that ... . An explosion occurred at the Sts Cyril and Methodius Church on the premises of the Vladimir State University on December 6, ... ethnic and religious hatred” was found inside the church, he said. “A 28-year-old resident of Vladimir was detained ...

The Bulgarian Orthodox Church may decide in favor of restoring the Julian Calendar, which means that Christmas will have be celebrated on January 7 ... might celebrate Christmas on December 25 for the last time, if the Church decides to renounce the Gregorian Calendar. On December 20, 2009, the Holy Synod of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church is going to hold a meeting to consider the plea of a group of ...

... over Greek property taxes and the battle lines between Church and State have been drawn. The Church is the largest property owner in Greece ... has enjoyed tax-exemption for long enough and that it should pay its dues. The Orthodox hierarchy, of course, have dug their feet in the sand and stated that ... to refuse to pay the one off windfall tax. More on Greek Property Taxes and the Greek Orthodox Church

There never was a Bible in the Orthodox Church “Strictly speaking, there never was a Bible in the Orthodox Church, at least not as we commonly think of the Bible as a single volume book we can hold in our hand. Since the beginning of the Church, from the start of our liturgical tradition, there has

... methods" I used when I was "source-checking" the Church's claims, and I hope they'll help someone who reads this ... I made: First, I started in AD 33 with Pentecost and followed the Church to today. This involved reading lots of histories ... column was filled top to bottom with my little checks -- the Orthodox Church.So that's a little bit about how I reached my conclusions. ...

... the Museum's collection to a newly-constructed church in an upscale gated community. The Alexander Nevsky Church ... original purposes of being available to worshippers. This dispute over the icon, originally from a church in the town of Toropets, is part of a larger dispute between preservation experts and the Russian Orthodox Church over the use of culturally and religiously valuable objects. ...

The conversation concerning the full inclusion of gays and lesbians in the Orthodox Church has not started in the same way it has in the Roman, Anglican, and Protestant churches. ... States. Today in Finland, tomorrow here..." I have linked before to Orthodox bloggers who blog specifically on the synergy between homosexual activity ...

Dozens of people led by an Orthodox priest smashed a menorah in Moldova's capital, using hammers and iron ... under police guard. Police said they were investigating, but there was no official reaction from Moldova's Orthodox Church, which is part of the Russian Orthodox ... Jewish leader Alexandr Bilinkis called on the Orthodox Church to take a position over the priest's actions. ...

... threatened to suspend ecumenical relations with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in | eChurchWebsites Christian Blog covering the news, politics, ... to suspend ecumenical relations with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Germany (EKD) in the wake of the election of female Bishop Margot ... as its leader. … View original here: The Russian Orthodox Church has threatened to suspend ecumenical …

... last one I posted on Blooming in the Desert. The Choir Concert was performed on Sunday November 8, 2009 at my parish of Saint Paul the Apostle Orthodox Church on day 2 of our International Food Festival. The performance was well worth attending and the reproduction offered in the recording you will find at the Blooming in the ...

Alyson and Nick have a typical "boy meets girl in a NY Kinkos when girl-in-a-hurry asks perfect-stranger-of-a-boy to help her with the printer; boy takes mental note of girl's employer as he sees it on the resume he's helping her print; the next day he GUESSES her email based on the math of her name plus workplace, and asks her to dinner" story. It was quite a chance meeting, ...

... . "Too many rocks," he grunts, "like my sins." Despite the highly-spun articles on Christian history, National Geographic also makes available this great photo series from Mt Athos... By the way, the title of this post is a quote taken from the Von Mises Institute's review of The Church Impotent: The Feminization of Christianity by Leon Podles. It seemed appropriate.