Internally displaced families from Gaza’s Shajaiya neighborhood, which has come under intense Israeli bombardment, seek refuge in the Greek Orthodox Church of Saint Porphyrius, July 22, 2014. (photo by Wissam Nassar) Author: Asmaa…
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From the man who has sent agents into Ukraine to pose as rebels and foment strife, separatism and bloodshed, and whose provided equipment and technical expertise shot down the civilian Malaysian Airlines plane…
Andrew Sorokowski, 26 June 2014, RISU In Metropolitan Hilarion’s view, the crisis in Ukraine, which in fact consists of a Russian invasion, is being exacerbated by the Greek-Catholic Church. Evidently, standing by…
19 July 2014, RISU On July 18, at the church-state celebrations in Sergiev Posad (near Moscow) dedicated to the 700 anniversary of St Sergius of Radonezh, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that…
This excellent post from Seraphim from a “Byzantine Chesterton” viewpoint, is well worth taking to heart: Prolegomena to Ecumenism Saturday, June 28, 2014 The recent and continuing expressions of outrage by the…
On 26th June, Interfax, the Russian state news service with a particular focus on the works and policy of the Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church, carried yet another diatribe from…
July 17, 2014, Benjamin Mann My perspective on celibacy is an unusual one. Shortly after I became a Christian, at age 21, I began thinking about forgoing marriage – even though I…
On 6 June 2014, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations (DECR), met with the Patriarch of Antioch and All the East of the Syrian…
A comparison of the Evangelical Protestant substitutionary view of the Atonement and the Orthodox view of salvation – illustrated with chairs. It is worth saying that the Evangelical position derives from St Anselm,…
Note the “God of God” that is not present in the Byzantine version but is in the Latin rite; no “homoousios” (“of one substance”), the repetition of phrases to attest the dogma…