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Monthly Archives: February 2015

The True Colours of American Foreign Policy and Response

OBAMA ADMIN CALLED OUT FOR FAILING TO CITE CHRISTIANITY AS MOTIVE BEHIND ISIS LIBYA BEHEADINGS By ARIEL COHEN 19/02/2015 This is not the first time the Obama Administration has come under fire for failing to mention religion as the motive behind Islamic terror. Amid the backlash against the Obama administration’s avoidance of linking Islam to extremist attacks, a reporter questioned the White House press …

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The Beheadings of Coptic Egyptian Christians in Libya by Isis

ISIS VIDEO SHOWS BEHEADINGS OF EGYPTIAN COPTIC CHRISTIANS IN LIBYA (CNN): In a new propaganda video released Sunday by ISIS, the militant group claims to have beheaded over a dozen members of Egypt’s Coptic Christian minority on a Libyan beach. The highly produced video shows an apparent mass execution with jihadists in black standing behind each of the victims, who are …

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French bishops’ ‘non’ to Charlie Hebdo declaration

16 February 2015 12:06 The French Catholic Church has declined to sign a declaration by the group Reporters without Borders (RSF) challenging faith groups to pledge unreserved support for free speech or face public pressure to do so. RSF president Christophe Deloire proposed the declaration after religious leaders, reacting to last month’s terrorist attack on the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, backed …

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A Blessed Lent during these difficult days‏

Dear Friends of Saint George of Taybeh, I sincerely wish all of you a most blessed Holy Great Lenten journey with your beautiful families and church communities.  It is amazing that this sacred and most holy time of year just sneaked upon us so fast with some awful very unholy things happening all around the world.  May our Lord have …

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The “Last Judgement”: Meat-Fare Sunday (Matthew 25:31-46)

Author: Fr George Dimopoulos Source: Orthodox Sermons for all the Sundays of the Year – Volume I Publisher: Christian Orthodox Editions “When the Son of Man shall come” (Matthew 21:31-46) Dear brethren, today’s gospel reading tells us about the Second Coming of Jesus. When Christ came the first time, He came as a very humble infant to the stable of …

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VANISHING CYPRUS: GREEK EXIT FROM EURO!

By Andreas C Chrysafis February, 2015 (No 69) There is a serious political and economic clash going on deep inside the chambers of the EU. The newly elected Tsipras government has triggered a tsunami that may not be so easily contained. The northern states dominated by Germany and braced by the ECB have now also regressed to blackmailing tactics. What …

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A Question about Salvation posed to Mode of Life

Q. Greetings to the weblog administrators of Mode of Life Project. I was wondering, when reading the Bible, there are references that cite that all idolators and atheists go to hell. Does that mean all Hindus and Buddhists go to hell? Agapite, You ask a loaded question according to a personal reading of the Scriptures and without providing me a reference …

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Sunday of the Prodigal Son and the Merciful Father (Luke 15:11-32)

Author: Fr George Dimopoulos Source: Orthodox Sermons for all the Sundays of the Year – Volume I Publisher: Christian Orthodox Editions “It was meet that we should make merry and be glad; for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost and is found”   One of the most beautiful of all the Gospel Lessons in …

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SERMON – PARABLE OF THE PRODIGAL SON (Luke 15:11-32)

‘God, be merciful to me a sinner!’ I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.” Today’s parable, my dear brothers and sisters, is a vivid painting like a drawing of souls. Our Holy Church presents to us …

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The euthanasia lobby has hijacked the phrase ‘dying with dignity’

The Age – 17 November 2014 Jack de Groot “We accompany people and their loved ones each day as they go through their own processes of dying.” The hijacking of the term “dying with dignity” by today’s supporters of euthanasia and assisted suicide is an insult to the dedicated doctors, nurses and pastoral carers who daily provide compassionate care, pain …

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