Fredrick Nzwili | December 22, 2015 NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) Christian leaders have hailed as an act of bravery and selflessness the shielding of some Christians by Muslims after suspected al-Shabab gunmen in Mandera County ambushed a passenger bus. The gunmen sprayed the bus with bullets, killing two. But when they asked the 62 Muslim passengers to help identify the Christian …
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MPS PUT PRESSURE ON DAVID CAMERON TO RECOGNISE CHRISTIAN ‘GENOCIDE’ IN THE MIDDLE EAST By Sean Smith Senior British politicians have put pressure on David Cameron with a letter urging that the UK joins other nation states in recognising the persecution of Christians in the Middle East as “genocide”. Last week the Lithuanian parliament become the first EU state to recognise …
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By Gabe Martini In a world characterized by the rationalism of the Enlightenment and the instant knowledge of Google, it’s hard to believe things have not always been so. In the ancient world, ideas, customs, stories, and even history were committed primarily not to books, but rather memorized through both poetry and song. They were preserved through oral tradition. And of …
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In the following article and interview we meet a living example of purity in spiritual authority. Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh is the head of the Russian Orthodox Church in Great Britain, a church that sees itself as proceeding in an unbroken lineage from the earliest days of Christianity. Having split from the Western church in 1054, Eastern Orthodoxy today has …
Read More »OFFICIAL WEBSITES OF ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN JURISDICTIONS OF OCEANIA Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops of Oceania Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia, New Zealand and the Philippines Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (ROCOR) – Diocese of Australia and New Zealand Serbian Orthodox Metropolitanate of Australia and New Zealand Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of Australia and New Zealand …
Read More »The Orthodox Christian Faith has not only been a spiritual and moral force amongst the various nations and peoples which have adopted it, but one of cultural import as well. This of course is not coincidental, as the message of the Christian Gospel is not to subvert or override the indigenous culture or language of any given people or nation; but …
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By Metropolitan Anthony Bloom of Sourozh Every time we approach the holy chalice to receive Communion to the Body and Blood of Christ we say a prayer that contains words that must become true on our lips, otherwise they are a lie before God. We say to God that we are the worst sinner, we are the chief sinner that …
Read More »By Deacon Charles Joiner Facing East is an ancient tradition, grounded in sure knowledge about the Second Coming, first told us by the Lord, and then repeated by an angel after the disciples had just seen the Lord ascend into heaven: “For as the lightning comes from the east and shines as far as the west, so will be the …
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Love between a couple is more than just consent and autonomy By Jason Morgan June 10, 2015 (ThePublicDiscourse) — For the past several decades, campus authorities from deans and chancellors all the way down to lowly RAs have been reiterating the talking points of “safe sex” to college-age teenagers. For the vast majority of incoming freshmen, these messages of consent …
Read More »By Gabe Martini The Judaism of the first century was a religion almost entirely centered around the sacrificial worship of the temple. Faithful pilgrims traveled many miles from all around the diaspora to worship at the temple several times a year, and the temple was central to their faith and piety. While various forms of post-Christian Judaism today are more centered …
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ModeOfLife Become love as God exhorts us, for this is the true starting point for changing your life and the world. For it is love that will bring respect, justice and equity into the world, not our personal opinion of what justice or equity is.