Egypt’s new anti-discrimination law — hastily announced by the transitional government in the wake of an international outcry over the October 9 killing of 27 mostly Coptic protestors in Cairo’s Maspero district — is being put to the test. The brutal murder of a teenage Christian student in southern Egypt on October 16 illustrates the ongoing threat that Egypt’s Christian minority faces from growing religious extremism, including within its public school system, and the discriminatory denial of justice in cases involving religion.
The King’s speech wasn’t just a symbolic or perhaps a conventional moment as many pseudo-journalists or analysts tried to suggest, but a truly historic day that brought joy to many Romanians – monarchists and republicans, in the country and abroad, young people and seniors, peasants, workers and intellectuals alike.
Metropolitan Kallistos (Ware)
Rating: 8,4|Votes: 5
It is very clear that when St. John in his Epistle and our Savior in the Gospel speak about love they do not just mean something sentimental, something emotional, they mean something far more profound. The kind of love that they envisage, a universal all-embracing love, a love without limits, can only be a result of prayer, of ascetic effort.
Fr. John Moses
Rating: 9,4|Votes: 17
In some ways, talking to an Orthodox group about Halloween is like what we used to call "preaching to the choir." In other words, non-participation in Halloween should be a "no-brainer." Yet, I believe that the issue of Halloween is an example of a more fundamental struggle between Orthodoxy and the secular spirit of our age.
Fr. Athanasios Papagiannis
Every parent wants the best for their child, yet mapping out how to exactly deliver that parenting has become more and more difficult. This struggle of parenting in contemporary society can be encapsulated by one word: time. We know that parenting takes time, but modern parenting has divided the concept of time into two categories – quality time and quantity time.
