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Getting to Know our Orthodox Christian Saints who Lived, Labored and Served in America

By Webmaster on January 31, 2020 Orthodox News, Orthodox News Top Stories

Source: Orthodox Christian Laity Orthodox Christian Laity starts off the New Year by introducing a new feature on the OCL web site: Getting to Know our Orthodox Christian Saints who Lived, Labored and Served in America. This feature is dedicated to celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the granting of the Tomos of Autocephaly to the Orthodox Church in America (OCA) in 1970. It is time for the clergy and laity to come to realize that the American Orthodox Experience is unique. Our unique new world geography has helped us create a multi-cultural Orthodox presence here. Even before there was structured church life here…

George Matsoukas

JANUARY MUSING OF THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

By Webmaster on January 31, 2020 Governance & Unity Essays, Governance & Unity News

Source: Orthodox Christian Laity THANK YOU, followers, of the OCL web site. You provide hope for the renewal of our Orthodox Christian Church in the USA based what you collectively thought were the top 15 stories of the hundreds posted on Orthodox News in 2019. Our year-end e-blast listed the top 15 stories that were most read. Take time and go back and review the 15 you collectively selected. The range, depth, and breadth of topics you selected, reveal that you are serious, intelligent, discriminating, discerning, spiritually alive and concerned individuals. You are interested in Orthodox Christian history, contemporary problems…

ORTHODOX CHURCH SET ABLAZE TWICE IN LESS THAN A MONTH IN SUDAN

By Webmaster on January 30, 2020 Orthodox News, Orthodox News Top Stories

Source: Orthodox Christianity [Bout, Sudan] Christian churches are under attack in Sudan. Three churches, including an Orthodox church, have been burnt down twice in the span of less than a month in the village of Bout in the Blue Nile state of the Republic of Sudan. The other churches attacked are from the Catholic Church and the Sudan Internal Church, reports the local Human Rights and Development Organization (HUDO). The Orthodox churches in Sudan are within the jurisdiction of Metropolitan Savvas of Nubia. The churches were first set ablaze on December 28, and after the congregations began to rebuild them with local…

Dr Charles Ajalat, Protodeacon Peter Danilchick and Fr Tom Soroka Discuss Orthodox Unity

By Webmaster on January 24, 2020 Governance & Unity Essays, Governance & Unity News

Source: Ancient Faith Radio On the relaunch of Ancient Faith Today, Fr. Thomas Soroka interviews Dn. Peter Danilchick and Charles Ajalat about the history and future of seeking unity in the Orthodox Church. (58 minutes) CLICK HERE TO PLAY IN BROWSER CLICK HERE TO DOWN THE AUDIO FILE TRANSCRIPT AVAILABLE HERE

Metropolitan Kallistos Ware, a prominent Orthodox theologian, who is among the staunchest opponents of the recognition of the autocephaly of Epiphany in the Ukraine

Greek NGO: Church of Greece Recognized Ukrainian Autocephaly in Violation of Law

By Webmaster on January 23, 2020 Governance & Unity News, Governance Top Stories

Source: Helleniscope By Nadia Bazuk The Greek NGO Pan-Hellenic Orthodox Union is to appeal to the country’s Council of State claiming that the decision of the Church of Greece to recognize the Ukrainian autocephaly was taken in violation of Greek law, the Orthodoxos Typos reports. On October 12, 2019, the Council of Bishops of the Church of Greece held an extraordinary meeting on recognizing the autocephaly granted to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU) by the Ecumenical Patriarchate. At the meeting, it was decided to give Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens and All Greece a mandate to proceed with the recognition of the…

The Trail of the Tithe

By Webmaster on January 9, 2020 Orthodox News, Orthodox News Top Stories

Source: AGAIN Magazine Originally published in the Fall 2005 edition By Fr. Thomas Zell One of my earliest childhood memories is of piling into the back of our family car on Sunday morning and heading off to our little Baptist church in Klamath Falls, Oregon. Along with ensuring that my brother and I were properly cleaned and dressed for the occasion, my father would always drop several coins into our hands, so that we, in turn, could drop them into the offering plate at church. Tithing was something Dad faithfully practiced all his life, and he wanted to make sure…

Our Orthodox Church, Our Beloved Orthodox Church

By Webmaster on January 3, 2020 Governance & Unity Essays, Governance & Unity News

Source: The National Herald By Nicholas Karakas In the real world, mergers are formed almost daily among small, large and even billion-dollar firms, where details, objections, and culture have to be encountered, addressed and successfully overcome. These commercial er read mergers, secular pooling of interests, to flourish, have to overcome the differences of personalities, culture, styles, and in many cases, language. I am addressing the failure of the ethnic jurisdictions to unite in America. Any faithful can see through this shameful charade. No ethnic bishop wants to change his current style of living, his comforts, authority, and power. Ditto the…

Fr. Timothy Brant Cremeens

An Orthodox Priest’s Comments Regarding Same-Sex Marriage & Transgenderism

By Webmaster on December 29, 2019 Governance & Unity Essays, Governance & Unity News

Recently, some friends, have expressed some concerns about my posts on Facebook in response to the issue of same-sex marriage and transgenderism. They feel that my comments come across as harsh or judgmental. I want to state VERY clearly how I feel about these issues and welcome any kind of dialogue about them. From the outset, I must declare that I believe that there is objective truth, and that, that Truth is primarily revealed in the Person of Jesus Christ, who claims to be “the Way, the Truth and the Life;” and secondarily the holy Scriptures, that reveal Him and…

Sveti Stefan island in Budva in a beautiful summer day, Montenegro / Image by falco from Pixabay

Western Campaign Against Orthodox Church Turns to Montenegro

By Webmaster on December 28, 2019 Governance & Unity Essays, Governance & Unity News

Source: Strategic Culture Foundation by James George Jatras “Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.” So Karl Marx wrote in 1843. For three generations over the course of the 20th century his atheist disciples violently sought to break their subjects of this “opium” addiction. They failed. In many though not all parts of the former communist bloc Christianity not only survived but provided the impetus for national and social revival. In some countries, like Poland, Hungary, and Lithuania, this meant Roman Catholicism.…

JAMAICAN ORTHODOX MISSION LEAVING CONSTANTINOPLE FOR ROCOR

By Webmaster on December 20, 2019 Governance & Unity News, Governance Top Stories

Source: Orthodox Christianity Jamaica – The mission parishes of the Jamaican Orthodox Mission have voted to join the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia and are in the process of being received. The mission initially began on April 24, 2015, as the Holy Orthodox Archdiocese in Jamaica—a Vicariate of the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Mexico of the Patriarchate of Constantinople. The mission was established in response to the efforts of a young Jamaican, Moses Myers, a former member of a Pentecostal Holiness denomination who converted to Orthodoxy in March 2014. As Myers told OrthoChristian.com, the Jamaican Mission consists of two…

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