Sunday, March 10, 2013

Free showing of “The Island” at SUNY Potsdam March 10

March 10, 2013 Featured News

9/3/13      POTSDAM — The Orthodox Mission of Potsdam will hold a free showing of “The Island” Sunday, March 10 at 7 p.m. at Dexter’s Café, SUNY Potsdam. Father Luke Majoros of the monastic community of St. Silouan will give an introduction to the film. A parable about faith and salvation, “The Island” combines the realities [...]

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Everyday Saints and Other Stories

March 10, 2013 Featured News

Wesley J. Smith – 8/3/13 Thirty years ago, who would have dreamed that a 490-page book by a Russian Orthodox monk would sweep Russia and sell millions of copies around the world? But that has been the deserved publishing history of Everyday Saints and Other Stories, recently translated into English. The book is all the [...]

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Turkey Leans Toward Opening Halki Seminary

March 10, 2013 Featured News

Nicky Mariam Onti - 7/3/13 After years of resistance, the Turkish government is considering allowing the re-opening of the closed Halki Seminary, the Anatolia News agency reported. Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arınç said the institution should be reopened to educate clerics for the Orthodox community, saying “minorities have the same rights as us” while he was [...]

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His Holiness Patriarch Kirill celebrates the Liturgy for the 400th anniversary of the House of Romanov

March 10, 2013 Featured News

On March 6, the 400th anniversary of Mikhail Feodorovich Romanov’s enthronement as Tsar, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and all Russia celebrated the Divine Liturgy in the Patriarchal Cathedral of the Dormition in the Moscow Kremlin. Concelebrating with His Holiness were: Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, Chairman of the Church’s External Relations Department; Archbishop Mark [...]

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Obama invites NCC, religious leaders,

March 10, 2013 News

Washington, March 9, 2013 – In an off-the-record meeting at the White House Friday, President Obama heard the concerns of the National Council of Churches and other religious leaders about the issue of immigration reform. Mr. Obama has called for a four-point reform of the nation’s immigration system that includes providing undocumented immigrants with a [...]

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