Kirk Durston
When a culture approves of sexual activity before marriage, researchers have found that monogamy, belief in God, and rational thinking tend to disappear within three generations.
Following in the footsteps of the Metropolises of Piraeus and Kythira, the Metropolis of Corfu has resolved to excommunicate local deputies who voted for gay marriage last month.
The North American Orthodox-Catholic Theological Consultation has issued a new joint statement on the pastoral care of mixed marriages entitled, “Neither Yours Nor Mine—But Ours.”
Thanks to the efforts of the Pro-life Department of the Archdiocese of Iași of the Romanian Orthodox Church, a large family with many children will soon have a new house.
The recent events in Parliament “call for rivers of tears of repentance and heartbreak… Our era is indeed worthy of tears and, without exaggeration, worthy of mourning,” His Eminence writes.
The center will offer help to young families and mothers in the Houston area, where 27.6% of homes are run by a single parents and 19.5% of the population lives below the poverty line.
In response to the Greek Parliament’s scandalous decision to legalize gay marriage earlier this month, the Metropolis of Piraeus has excommunicated those MPs who voted in favor of the relevant bill.
The Church, the Synod, the clergy, and the people have said their word, and raised their voices to heaven: “This is a crime!”
On Thursday, February 15, Greek Parliament voted to legalize gay marriage and adoption by gay couples, making Greece the first Orthodox country to do so.
Greek Parliament voted late last night, despite the fierce and persistent resistance from the Church and society, to legalize gay marriage and adoption by gay couples.
Valentin Velchev
Parents fighting against the arbitrary actions of social services concerning their children can vanish in prisons and nobody in or outside the country will know anything about their fate!
The rally, organized by the Center for Patristic Studies in Marousi, Greece, was held on Syntagma Square in central Athens.
Another statement has come from the Holy Mountain concerning the controversy over the Greek government’s plans to legalize gay marriage and adoption by gay couples.
The modern-day comprehensive education programs for younger generation that teach that children have the right to sexual knowledge and pleasure are based on these pseudo-scientific experiments and speculations.
The signatory associations include Orthodox missionary brotherhoods, parenting associations, student unions, scientific associations, and many more.
Czech opponents of the Convention expressed the same concerns as many other countries and a number of Orthodox Churches: That it introduces new concepts of men and women and imposes harmful gender ideology.
The Holy Synod of the Patriarchate of Constantinople weighed in today on the gay marriage and adoption controversy currently raging in Greece.
The hierarchs of the Orthodox Church of Greece met in an extraordinary session today, with the sole item on the agenda being the state’s intention to legalize gay marriage and adoption by gay couples.
“What is against nature cannot be made natural by legal provisions,” the Albanian Church states.
For some or most things in life, you can never prepare yourself fully, but we have to trust that God will be there.