9/11 Tragedy A Solemn Reminder Of Need To Be Prepared Against Disaster

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9/11 Tragedy A Solemn Reminder Of Need To Be Prepared Against Disaster

"Our nation's emergency responders – firefighters, law enforcement officers, and paramedics do an incredible job of keeping us safe, but they cannot do it alone."

'Euthanasia has become fashionable': Ethics expert on the right to die

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'Euthanasia has become fashionable': Ethics expert on the right to die

"It becomes a general mentality – If I'm sick, old or just don't want to live anymore, I just fill in the form and ask for euthanasia. We don't invest in palliative care anymore...it's very fashionable to ask to die in this way."

Fr. Seraphim Galik—One Soldier on the Field

Priest Seraphim Galik, Irina Akhundova

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Fr. Seraphim Galik—One Soldier on the Field

Priest Seraphim Galik, Irina Akhundova

One day an old woman came up to him and said, “It’s so good that you’re standing here. I killed my child and even now 40 years later I am still crying.” Fr. Seraphim has dedicated his life to helping assure that there will be as few such women as possible.

The Russia They Lost

Dimitry Sokolov-Mitrich

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The Russia They Lost

Dimitry Sokolov-Mitrich

We had, after all, loved America. I clearly remember that we loved America. When we were growing up in the early 1990’s, the majority of my friends had no doubt as to how we related to western civilization. And we related well, how else?

Economics, the Environment and the Orthodox Church’s Eucharistic Vision

Rev. Gregory Jensen

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Economics, the Environment and the Orthodox Church’s Eucharistic Vision

Rev. Gregory Jensen

As he has done in the past, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew in his encyclical for the beginning of the Orthodox Christian ecclesiastical year (September 1) meditates on “the ongoing and daily destruction of the natural environment.” Environmental damage is the poisoned fruit of “human greed” and the pursuit of “vain profit,” the patriarch writes.