Tag: Christianity
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How Can We Talk About Persecutions if the Very Word Itself Has Been Banned?
The following is Metropolitan Luke’s answer to a question posed on the Ukrainian web resource Pravlife.info concerning the modern nature of persecutions now taking place… Read More
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Georgian Church calls for peace as protests erupt over EU membership talks suspension
Tbilisi, December 2, 2024 Photo: aljazeera.com Georgia’s ruling Georgian Dream party won 89 seats in the 150-seat Parliament in the recent elections in October,… Read More
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Macedonian, Serbian, Bulgarian hierarchs serve funeral of Met. Timotej of Debar
Ohrid, North Macedonia, December 2, 2024 Photo: liturgija.mk Hierarchs of the Serbian and Bulgarian Orthodox Churches joined the hierarchs of the Macedonian Orthodox Church-Ohrid… Read More
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‘Gladiator II’ entertains, but how much does it exaggerate? A historian weighs in
If you haven’t heard by now, Hollywood is at it again, offering viewers another serving of one of the staples of ancient Roman society: gladiators.… Read More
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Orthodox Metropolitan of Aleppo vows to stay with flock as rebels take city
Aleppo, Syria, December 2, 2024 Photo: Greco-Levantines World Wide In a pastoral message issued on November 30, 2024, His Eminence Metropolitan Ephraim of Aleppo… Read More
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Giving From Your Heart
The Reading from the Holy Gospel according to St. Luke. (12:16-21) In today’s reading the Lord gives a simple parable about the subject of… Read More
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St. Nikephoros (Tzanakakis) the Leper. Part 3
St. Nikephoros (Tzanakakis) the Leper. Part 2“No one had ever told us what repentance is. We had never heard that there is the prayer of… Read More
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Radical changes to Nicaraguan Constitution are a blow to Catholic Church
A broad constitutional reform promoted by the Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, will probably increase the political persecution of… Read More
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Catholic bishops decry British end of life vote: 'May God help us'
Catholic bishops in England have decried a vote for assisted suicide, with one saying it represented a “dark day” in the history of the country.… Read More
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Black Catholics look to a new generation of leaders at LA gathering
When 10 Black bishops decided to issue a pastoral letter on the state of Black Catholicism in the U.S. in 1984, they identified a few… Read More