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Pilgrims from across the world traveled here Wednesday to celebrate the 42nd anniversary of the canonization of St. Herman of Alaska.
In late July, delegations of the Local Orthodox Churches came to Ukraine to celebrate the 20th anniversary of His Beatitude Vladimir’s tenure of office as Metropolitan of Kiev. These were the Churches of Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, Jerusalem, Georgia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Poland, the Church of Czech Lands and Slovakia and the Orthodox Church of America.
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At a time when the press both within Russia and beyond is raking through the events surrounding a group of punk rock girls who gained a previously elusive notoriety by blaspheming on the solea of the Russia’s preeminent Christ the Savior Cathedral as if it were a stage, it seems appropriate to mention a group of punks in the U.S. who have found the answer to their angst in Orthodox Christianity.
Every now and then, someone — sometimes on the right, sometimes on the left — decides to do a very free-church Protestant thing and start their own new and improved version of one of the ancient Christian churches. Sometimes, these innovators decide to submit themselves to the existing hierarchies, making the decision to officially join either the Catholic or Eastern Orthodox folds (Memory eternal, Father Peter Gillquist). But often, they do not.
The Russian Ecclesiastical Mission (REM) in Jerusalem is alarmed. Jerusalem authorities and the representatives of the local transportation company have started the process of finalizing the tramway project. The new tramway is going to be built on the property of the famous Orthodox women’s monastery called “Gorny”, dedicated to the meeting of the Mother of God with Righteous Elizabeth, the mother of St. John the Baptist.
