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Yuri Gagarin, First Human in Space, was a Devout Orthodox Christian, says His Close Friend

June 19, 2013 Featured News

Rob Kerby - 19/6/13 The first man in outer space 50 years ago believed fervently in the Almighty — even though the atheistic Soviet government put famous words in his mouth that he had looked around at the cosmos and did not see God. Mankind’s first space flight lasted 108 minutes on April 12, 1961. It [...]

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Jewish and Orthodox church leaders meet in Greece

June 13, 2013 News

12/6/13 Leading Orthodox Christian and Jewish interfaith officials, scholars and clerics discussed the crucial importance of protecting the environment and religious values and condemned growing incidents of anti-Semitism and religious prejudice around the world during a three day conference to help improve relations between these two ancient faith communities. Co-sponsored by the Liaison Office of [...]

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Metropolitan Savas, Pittsburgh’s Greek Orthodox leader, receives honorary doctorate from Colby College

June 1, 2013 News

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – 1/6/13 Metropolitan Savas of the Greek Orthodox Diocese of Pittsburgh has received an honorary doctorate from his alma mater, Colby College in Maine. The native of Gary, Ind., earned a bachelor of arts degree there in 1979, before embarking on a spiritual quest that led him to the monastery and then to [...]

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The Explosive growth of Orthodox Christianity in Guatemala

May 21, 2013 Featured News

21/5/13 Father David and Matushka Rozanne Rucker have been mission specialists for many years with the Orthodox Christian Mission Center (OCMC), which has missionaries around the world under the umbrella of the Assembly of Bishops. Guatemala has seen an explosive growth of Orthodox Christianity among thousands of indigenous Mayans, so now the Ruckers will be [...]

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List of Orthodox Christian Educational Institutions Worldwide

May 14, 2013 Featured News

13/5/13 OCP Media Network  CLICK TO VISIT THE PAGE: Global: Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE Media Network has published the largest list of Orthodox Christian Educational Institutions worldwide. Effort has been made to consolidate a comprehensive list of Orthodox Christian higher educational institutions worldwide. It includes theological seminaries, institutions, academics, University faculties, Universities, iconography institutes etc. Related areas to Orthodox Christianity like Byzantine [...]

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Orthodox Christian Holy Week 2013 – Snaps Around the World

May 6, 2013 Featured News
Holy Land: Scene from Holy Fire

5/5/13 Orthodox Christian Holy Week pics around the world. Source 1: Source 2: Source 3: Source 4: Source 5:   Source 6: Source 7:

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Crossing borders to create a small-town Orthodoxy

May 3, 2013 News

Todd Moe, in Canton, NY 3/5/13 The single most important day in the Orthodox calendar – Easter, or Pascha, is this Sunday. Many Orthodox churches base their holiest days on the Julian calendar, rather than the Gregorian calendar. Historically, Orthodox communities in the United States have been defined largely by ethnicity and found mostly in [...]

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Fordham University’s Orthodox Christian Studies Center to host 3-day conference, June 11-13

April 9, 2013 News

Washington, D.C. 4/1/2013 Fordham University’s Orthodox Christian Studies Center will be hosting a conference on “Christianity, Democracy, and the Shadow of Constantine” held at Fordham’s Rose Hill campus on June 11-13, 2013. The Orthodox Christian Studies Center is co-chaired by Archons Aristotle Papanikolaou and George E. Demacopoulos, PhD. Click here to register for the conference. [...]

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Orthodox Easter: ‘Christ is risen!’

April 6, 2013 Featured News

Rev. Michael Shanbour, Contributing reader 5/4/13 “Christ is risen from the dead, trampling down death by death, and upon those in the tombs bestowing life!” This simple, ancient Christian hymn is sung over and over by Orthodox Christians late into the early morning hours each year on Orthodox Christian Easter or “Pascha.” On that night, [...]

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An Ethiopian Easter: Unexpected wonders of Lalibela and Addis Ababa

March 30, 2013 Featured News

30/3/13 Despite still being blighted by poverty, it is rich in culture and natural wonders and beginning to realise its potential as a tourist destination. A gold-robed deacon stood in front of a makeshift altar at the shadowy heart of the nave, clutching a staff as he led the mournful chanting. Surrounding him was a [...]

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Icon-writing, a path to recovery for prisoners in Poland

February 16, 2013 Featured News
A Bialystok Prison jailer checking prisoners going for orthodox icon painting classes. Photo courtesy: AFP

Maja Czarnecka – 16/2/13 Bialystok, Poland, Feb 16, 2013 (AFP) — Behind the bars of a prison on Poland’s eastern fringe, a dozen women serving time are lost in concentration as they learn the intricate art of icon-writing in the Orthodox Christian tradition. The centuries’ old craft, which typically displays the Virgin with the baby [...]

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Serbian House of Studies to be Founded at Seminary

February 16, 2013 Featured News

15/2/13 St. Vladimir’s Seminary (SVOTS) and the Faculty of Orthodox Theology at the University of Belgrade have made a formal agreement to work together with the aim of establishing a Serbian House of Studies on the campus of St. Vladimir’s Seminary. The House of Studies has several goals, including the promotion of sustained dialogue and [...]

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Russia to help Kosovo restore Orthodox shrines

February 11, 2013 News

11/2/13 Russia is planning to allocate money on restoration of Orthodox Christian historic monuments in Kosovo. This was announced by a member of the Russian parliament’s lower house’s Committee for Foreign Affairs Alexander Karelin. Earlier, Russia has already allocated $ 2 mln for this purpose through UNESCO. In January 2013, more than 150 Serbian graves [...]

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An Eastern Orthodox Case for Banning Assault Weapons

January 29, 2013 Featured News

29/1/13 An Orthodox Christian and independent scholar, writing on public and political theology NRA president, Wayne LaPierre says that instead of banning assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, we need to do something about violent movies and video games. He is technically correct that the cause of gun violence is not the gun. It’s the violence, [...]

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Metropolitan Tikhon leads Orthodox Christian witness at DC March for Life

January 27, 2013 Featured News

27/1/13 Orthodox Christian hierarchs, clergy, seminarians and faithful of all ages joined tens of thousands of pro-lifers from across the nation for the annual March for Life in the US capital on Friday, January 25, 2013. His Beatitude, Metropolitan Tikhon, led the faithful from the Ellipse to the steps of the Supreme Court in witness [...]

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Meeting of patriarchs in Moscow aims to ease tensions

January 25, 2013 Featured News

  Nino Edilashvili – 25/1/13 Leader of Georgia’s Orthodox Church, Catholicos Patriarch of Georgia Ilia II, visited Moscow to personally receive the Russian Church’s award granted by the Moscow-based International Foundation for the Unity of Orthodox Christian Nations. Also on the agenda was his meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin as well as Russia’s church [...]

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President congratulates Orthodox Christians

January 5, 2013 News
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5/1/2013 President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has congratulated the Orthodox Christian community of Azerbaijan on Christmas. The congratulatory message reads: “Dear fellow countrymen, I extend my heartfelt congratulations and best wishes to you and the whole Christian community of Azerbaijan on the holy Christmas-the birth of Prophet Jesus. World religions in Azerbaijan have peacefully coexisted [...]

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Orthodox Leaders Discuss Social Outreach at White House

December 18, 2012 Featured News

18/12/2012 Baltimore, MD (IOCC) — More than 80 representatives of the nation’s Orthodox Christian service organizations joined together at the White House today to discuss strategic service alliances with the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. The White House Conference on Orthodox Christian Engagement was hosted by the White House Office of Public [...]

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Svetionik – an Apple mobile device app with the Orthodox Christian Calendar and Reminder

December 15, 2012 Featured News

15/12/12 With the blessing of the Holy Synod of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church, the Diocese of Raška and Prizren has made available SVETIONIK – an Apple mobile device app with the Orthodox Christian Calendar and Reminder  for 2013. A part of the profit from this app will be used for the reconstruction of [...]

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An Orthodox Christian Understanding of the Immaculate Conception

December 8, 2012 Featured News

Konstantinos Koutroubas 8/12/12 The following excerpt, from The Orthodox Veneration of the Mother of God by our modern day Saint John Maximovitch, Archbishop of Shanghai and San Francisco, is an Orthodox Christian response to the Roman Catholic belief of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary. The Immaculate Conception, the belief that the Mother of [...]

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Orthodox Christian Fellowship Hosts Philokalia Lecture

December 2, 2012 News

By EDDIE MIKUS STAFF WRITER November 2012 Link to Amazon: The Orthodox Christian Fellowship hosted its annual Orthodoxy in America lecture on Nov. 14. The talk served as a general educational opportunity for all students, even those who do not adhere to one of the Orthodox Christian denominations. “The point of the Orthodoxy in America lecture series, [...]

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Ancient Art Comes To Syracuse

November 23, 2012 Featured News

Stacey Page - 22/11/2012 When local artist Brian Whirledge reached a plateau in his craft, he sought a teacher who could instruct him further. Unfortunately, teachers of Byzantine art and music are few and far between, and hundreds of miles from his home in Syracuse.  But when this art teacher learned of the creativity grants for [...]

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St. Vladimir’s Offers Public Evening Course on Arvo Pärt

November 11, 2012 Featured News

12/11/2012 Beginning January 15, 2013, St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary will offer an extension course for the public: “The Music and Faith of Arvo Pärt,” taught by Peter C. Bouteneff, associate professor of Systematic Theology. Arvo Pärt, whose works rank him as the 3rd-most performed composer globally, is an Orthodox Christian of Estonian nationality, and the course will [...]

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Iconography, architecture highlight tours at Orthodox Christian church in Oklahoma City

October 29, 2012 News

By Carla Hinton 28/10/2012 Guided church tours will be offered during the annual St. Elijah Food Festival set for Nov. 2-3 at St. Elijah Antiochian Orthodox Christian Church, 15000 N May, Oklahoma City. A breathtaking image of Christ is displayed in vivid hues of blue and gold inside the large dome at St. Elijah Antiochian [...]

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A positive Orthodox Christian theology of democracy

October 15, 2012 Featured News

  15/10/2012 Purchase a copy from Notre Dame Press here: In The Mystical as Political: Democracy and Non-Radical Orthodoxy, to be published on 25 October 2012, Aristotle Papanikolaou explores the question of whether Orthodox Christianity and liberal democracy are mutually exclusive worldviews. His question is prompted primarily by the post-communist situation in the traditional Orthodox [...]

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