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IOCC Responds to Ukraine Crisis

Source: International Orthodox Christian Charities Agency Sets $1 Million Fundraising Goal for Immediate and Long-Term Support Baltimore, Md. (February 28, 2022) – The humanitarian and development agency International Orthodox Christian Charities (IOCC) is responding to needs created by the conflict in Ukraine. Given the enormity of the crisis, IOCC has launched a campaign to raise at least $1 million dollars in private donations to support this work. In response to the crisis in Ukraine, IOCC is working with partners in country and across the region to help address immediate needs, while looking ahead and planning for longer-term response. Initial efforts…

Fr Frank Marangos

UR INVITATION TO PALINDROME

By Webmaster on February 28, 2022 Governance & Unity Essays, Governance & Unity News

Source: OINOS Educational Consulting by Frank Marangos, D.Min., Ed.D., FCEP “We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.” ~ C. S. Lewis Twenty-first century America has lost its way. With staggering speed we have gone from the generation of “Father Knows Best” to a time when fathers and parents”, in general, are considered irrelevant. Our courts are flooded with lawsuits that attempt to redefine marriage, identity, and normalize the absurd. From a moral…

Patriarch Kirill urges prayer for peace in “Russian lands” and calls those that have strived against the unity of Rus’ and the Russian Church “evil forces”

By Webmaster on February 28, 2022 Governance & Unity News, Governance Top Stories, Uncategorized

Source: Interfax Moscow, February 28, Interfax – Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia in his Sunday sermon after Divine Liturgy in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior said that he prayed for peace in the Russian land that includes “Ukraine, Byelorussia and Russia.” “May the Lord preserve the Russian land. When I say “Russian”, I use the ancient expression from “A Tale of Bygone Years” – “Wherefrom has the Russian land come”, the land which now includes Russia and Ukraine and Belarus and other tribes and peoples,” he said addressing the parishioners. He also called on all believers of…

Putin kissing icon in presence of bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church

AN ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN STANDING WITH UKRAINE

By Webmaster on February 27, 2022 Governance & Unity Essays, Governance & Unity News

Source: Public Othodoxy PERSONAL REFLECTIONS ON RUSSIA’S WAR ON UKRAINE by Rev. Dr. John Chryssavgis | ελληνικά | Română Few, if any, would go so far as to claim that Patriarch Kirill, as head of the Orthodox Church in Russia (or “the Russias,” as he likes to say), could be charged with crimes against humanity or war crimes for not preventing unwarranted and unjustifiable military aggression that has cost innocent lives in just the last few days. At the same time, many, if not most, would concur that President Putin should be charged with such atrocities. Even with his egregious violations of conventional law, however,…

H.E. Archbishop Elpidophoros attended the Ecumenical Prayer Service at St. Sophia Greek Orthodox Cathedral in Washington, DC Co-Hosted by In Defense of Christians and The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America. PHOTOS: © GOA/DIMITRIOS PANAGOS

Archbishop Elpidophoros of America: There is no war in Ukraine, this is an invasion (VIDEO)

By Webmaster on February 26, 2022 Governance & Unity News, Governance Top Stories

Source: Orthodox Times “The days are rough. I’m annoyed when I hear the word war. There is no war. War is when two sides declare war on each other and fight. We do not have a war in Europe. “There is no war in Ukraine, this is an invasion.” This is one of the things that the Archbishop Elpidoforos stressed in his statement. The Archbishop of America, after the meeting with the Deputy Minister of Macedonia-Thrace Stavros Kalafatis, regarding Russia’s invasion on Ukraine, sent a message of support to the Ukrainian people, according to an article of grtimes.gr. “It is an…

Appeal for Peace in Ukraine

By Webmaster on February 26, 2022 Governance & Unity News, Governance Top Stories

Source: Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops of the USA The recent geopolitical developments and aggression against Ukraine will inevitably bring suffering and death on innocent children, women and men of the country, who are – so many of them – our brothers and sisters in the Orthodox Christian faith. As the Hierarchs of the Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops of the USA, we earnestly and urgently lift up our prayers for all the people of Ukraine, imploring God that peace and justice may be restored in accordance with the spirit of the Gospel reflected in the words of Saint…

The Luncheon Forum of Leadership 100’s 31st Annual Conference at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Naples, FL. Forum Speaker was Dr. Alexander Kitroeff. (Photo by GOA/DIMITRIOS PANAGOS)

A Thank You Note to Leadership 100

By Webmaster on February 26, 2022 Governance & Unity Essays, Governance & Unity News

Source: The National Herald By Alexander Kitroeff I attended the recent Leadership 100 conference that took place in Florida. I was invited there to give a lecture on the one-hundred-year history of the Archdiocese and to receive an award for which I am very grateful. But I am also grateful for all I learned while attending the conference. I thought that Leadership 100 was simply about rich people who give money to our Church. But now I know better. Leadership 100 is composed of persons who can afford to donate the sum of $100,000 over a period of ten years…

Ukrainian Orthodox Vicariate in Romania: We are together in prayer with all the citizens of Ukraine

By Webmaster on February 25, 2022 Governance & Unity News, Governance Top Stories

Source: Basilica.ro by Aurelian Iftimiu “We call on reason and wisdom. We are constantly praying for an end to the conflict,” the representatives of the Ukrainian Orthodox Vicariate in Romania wrote on Thursday regarding the situation in Ukraine. “The citizens of Ukraine, regardless of their ethnic origin, have the right to a free life. The misunderstandings between the states must be resolved exclusively through diplomatic channels, without loss of human lives, without generating real humanitarian tragedies,” reads a message signed by Vicar Nicolae Lauruc, Dean Petru Rahovan and Dean Petru Rosoca, published by the vicariate on their Facebook page. “We are…

People gather in the Kyiv subway, using it as a bomb shelter, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, Feb. 25, 2022. Russia is pressing its invasion of Ukraine to the outskirts of the capital after unleashing airstrikes on cities and military bases and sending in troops and tanks from three sides. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Bradley Nassif, Orthodox theologian, on why Americans should care about Ukraine

By Webmaster on February 25, 2022 Governance & Unity Essays, Governance & Unity News

Source: Religion News Service The Orthodox theologian who once taught at an evangelical school warns that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine should worry Americans who care about religious freedom. By Bob Smietana (RNS) — The news that Russian troops had invaded Ukraine was of deep concern for Bradley Nassif, a theologian and expert on Orthodox-evangelical dialogue who spent years as a tenured professor of religion at an evangelical university. The status of the Orthodox Church in Ukraine has long been a source of tension. While Ukraine is home to millions of Orthodox Christians, they are divided in loyalties, with ties to rival leaders in…

His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew with His Beatitude Metropolitan Epiphanios, Primate of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine. (Photo by Ecumenical Patriarchate, file)

Patriarch Bartholomew Condemns the Russian Invasion in Ukraine

By Webmaster on February 24, 2022 Governance & Unity News, Governance Top Stories

Source: The National Herald CONSTANTINOPLE – Shocked by the invasion of the armed forces of the Russian Federation in the territory of Ukraine this morning, His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew telephoned His Beatitude Metropolitan Epiphanios, Primate of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, expressing his deep sorrow at this blatant violation of any notion of international law and legality, as well as his support to the Ukrainian people struggling “for God and country” and to the families of innocent victims. His All-Holiness condemns this unprovoked attack by Russia against Ukraine, an independent and sovereign state of Europe, as well as the…

Moscow Patriarch Kirill, Ukrainian Orthodox leaders issue calls for peace

By Webmaster on February 24, 2022 Governance & Unity News, Governance Top Stories

Source: Religion News Service Their characterizations of the conflict, however, are very different. By Claire Giangravé, Jack Jenkins VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Addressing the faithful on Thursday (Feb. 24), prelates associated with a Moscow-linked subset of Orthodox Christianity issued statements lamenting the suffering caused by the ongoing attack against Ukraine by Russian forces and calling for peace. Speaking to members of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church who answer to the Moscow Patriarchate, Metropolitan Onuphry of Kiev called the invasion of Ukraine “a disaster,” according to a translation of his statement from OrthoChristian. He addressed Russian President Vladimir Putin directly in his remarks. “Defending the sovereignty…

His Beatitude Metropolitan Tikhon issues statement on war in Ukraine

By Webmaster on February 24, 2022 Governance & Unity News, Governance Top Stories

Source: Orthodox Church in America Dearly beloved children in the Lord, In light of the distressing developments in Ukraine affecting millions of innocent people in the region, I wholeheartedly urge you to pray for peace and the well-being of our brothers and sisters who are enduring this tragic moment. I ask that the hostilities be ceased immediately and that President Putin put an end to the military operations. As Orthodox Christians, we condemn violence and aggression. I offer my support and prayers to my brother and concelebrant, His Beatitude Metropolitan Onufriy, who has the most difficult task of leading his…

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