Category: Ethics
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The Syrians: A Burnt Offering upon the Pulpit of Christ.
In an interview with Patriarch al-Rahi in September 2022, he said: “If the Syrians do not return to Syria, they will impose upon themselves a second war.” Holy Scripture says: “My word shall not return to Me empty, but shall accomplish what I sent it for,” and the word which the Patriarch spoke unfortunately succeeded…
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The Theology of Ugliness (and Evangelizing with It)
Introduction: The Orthodox pages, priests, and believers have drowned in a strange phenomenon concerning the defense of the faith, where they publish news about human behaviors and ethics widespread in the world, and see them as images of the forms of spiritual and moral death. At one time they publish about a phenomenon in…
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Holy Ignorance
Holy Ignorance Today a populist religious current prevails in the Church (comprising laypeople, clergy, and monks), a current zealous for the faith. I say it honestly: there is zeal for Christ. We are not more zealous than them nor more faithful, but as the Apostle Paul says: “I bear them witness that they have…
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What Was Written
An article dated 4 November 2020. Some days ago we saw the harsh criticism that the article of Metropolitan Basilios Mansour, Metropolitan of Akkar and its dependencies for the Greek Orthodox, received. His Eminence used some expressions that some found objectionable and rebelled against, such as: Christianizing and baptizing, and his translation of the verse…
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Obedience and Freedom Are Twinned
Obedience in the Church is one of the greatest problems, because of the ease with which its concept is distorted, and it turns into obedience to some party or some leadership. For the one who is obeyed very often misuses it, so that the personality of his disciple is erased, and the son becomes attached…
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The Statement of the Three Patriarchs after the Earthquake in Syria and Turkey
The region was lacking nothing but the disasters of nature, for the earthquake disaster is a tremendous and historic humanitarian catastrophe in Syria and Turkey, and unfortunately it is a region of recurring earthquakes, and there is no doubt that it is a dreadful tragedy for the Syrians. Dr. Tarek Mitri says “a catastrophe after…
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The Sale of the Aid for Those Affected by the Syria Earthquake of 2023
The aid designated for them began to be sold from the very first moment: food, clothing, blankets, and baby formula. Our role today, all of us, is to say: (No, we will not buy these humanitarian aid items). They were stolen from the mouths of children and women who went hungry, and families slept in…
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No Compassion for the Heretics?
Yesterday I read many posts and comments about the assault on Metropolitan Mar Mari Emmanuel. One of the posts that spread on some pages of Orthodox / by Orthodox people says: ” no compassion for the heretics” I will shed light on this phrase from several angles: First: for one who understands only the language…
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The New Heresy
The Orthodox world today suffers from numerous divisions on the ecclesiastical level, for you see the various schisms and quarrels plainly and without concealment, affecting our internal community and our dealings with both the Christian and the non-Christian world. And on the other hand there is no longer a unified Orthodox vision of the world,…
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Constantinople and Byzantine Glories
The idea of Constantinople and the glories of Byzantium still lingers in the minds of some Christians, and today they see, in the attempt to convert the Church of Hagia Sophia into a mosque and to hold prayers in it, an offense to Christianity and to its civilization, as though the face of Christianity were…