Archive for the 'Orthodox Church' Category
Tuesday, December 6th, 2016
A cross was placed a week ago upon the top of a new dome rising up at Ground Zero in NY City. It is about time. When the World Trade Center buildings went down on September 11, 2001, a tiny Greek Orthodox church- St. Nicholas was destroyed in their wake. After a lengthy battle with […]
Filed under: 9/11/01, American Church, Christian Witness, New York, Orthodox Church, Politically Correct, USA
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Friday, November 27th, 2015
(Russian Orthodox Cross) While churches in the West usually oppose any kind of war, leaders in the Russian Orthodox Church not only support Putin’s intervention in Syria but look upon it as a ‘Holy War’ to save the Middle Eastern Christians which make up 10% of the population in Syria. Here’s the story from the […]
Filed under: Church and State, Culture & Religion, ISIS, Middle East, Orthodox Church, Russia, Syria
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Thursday, March 27th, 2014
(Patriarch Filaret Denysenko: Religious Information Service of Ukraine) Here’s an interesting perspective on the Ukraine/Crimea invasion from the leader of the Ukrainian church. Definitely not something you might run across in the secularized Western press. The head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in an address last week condemned Russia’s attack and annexation of Crimea saying […]
Filed under: Culture & Religion, MSM, MSM and Religion, Orthodox Church, Ukraine
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Thursday, August 8th, 2013
(Putin with Russian Church leaders: Wikipedia) In a meeting with Orthodox Christian leaders in Moscow last week Russian President Vladimir Putin actually said some things that I agree with. He noted that religious minorities, Christians in particular, were being persecuted around the world (especially in the Middle East and in North Africa) and voiced […]
Filed under: Attacks on Christianity, Church and State, Culture & Religion, Foreign Policy, Gay Agenda, Homosexual Rights, Morality, Orthodox Church, Persecution, President Barack Obama, Progressive Agenda, Religious Persecution
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Saturday, October 15th, 2011
(Image via Wikipedia) New York City: St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church was destroyed on 9/11/01 by falling rubble from the World Trade Center towers. Church leaders finally reached an agreement with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey on Friday (Oct. 14) to rebuild at Ground Zero. Ten years have come and […]
Filed under: Orthodox Church, Politics & Religion
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Tuesday, June 28th, 2011
Yes, ‘Ground Zero’ Church! Most folks are unaware that a church across the street from the World Trade Center was also destroyed on 9/11/01. Many have heard about the ‘Ground Zero’ mosque being built several blocks away but St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church was actually at ‘Ground Zero’ and had been that location since 1916. […]
Filed under: 'Ground Zero Mosque', 9/11/01, Church and State, Orthodox Church
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Friday, January 21st, 2011
On January 19, Orthodox Christians all over Russia took a traditional dip in ice-cold water to celebrate Epiphany –the day in the Orthodox Church calendar set aside to commemorate the baptism of Jesus by John the Baptist in the Jordan River. In Russia, Orthodox believers traditionally mark the occasion by plunging into a river or […]
Filed under: Christian living, Culture & Religion, Orthodox Church, Russia
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