“Can anything good come out of Nazareth?” wondered Nathaneal, a disciple of Jesus, in the Gospel of John. Asked today, that question would have many of the city’s residents hard-pressed for an answer.
The Halki seminary, the main theological school of Eastern Orthodox Christianity, was shut down by the Turkish government in 1971. For the last couple of years, the AKP raised the hopes of Orthodox Christians all around the world that the seminary was to reopen. Many were sure the democratization package of Sept. 30 would realize this dream. It did not, and indeed now the possibility looks even less likely.
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There are about 70,000-100,000 Russian Orthodox Israelis. Approximately 10 percent of the total Aliya from the former Soviet Union are of the Christian Orthodox faith. This makes the Orthodox Church by far the largest among the past several decades of Israeli immigrants.
Tatiana Veselkina
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Once again it’s fall in New York – warm but fresh after the exhausting summer heat. The blue sky pierced by the spire of the new World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan. And…an aching feeling in your heart. Ask the locals and you will find that this feeling is familiar to many people in New York. It can’t be forgotten, it can’t be erased from their memory.
Kids at La Crosse's St. Elias Orthodox Church are seeking to help the refugees displaced by the conflict.