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Archons make Religious Freedom Mission to Vienna, Austria, current seat of European Union Presidency
With the blessings of His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and His Eminence Archbishop Demetrios, Geron of America, a delegation of the Order of Saint Andrew the Apostle, in a continuation of the Archons’ Religious Freedom Mission, visited Vienna,...
Off-Camera Press Briefing in the Pentagon Briefing Room
Acting Secretary Of Defense Patrick M. Shanahan ACTING SECRETARY OF DEFENSE PATRICK SHANAHAN: So, I think this is technically my first month in this acting role. I think we're going to do this on the record, right? Isn't that what we want to do? STAFF: Correct....
Ecumenical Patriarch: “The Church of Constantinople always meets the demands of the times and has a vision for the future”
Addressing pilgrims from Greece and Cyprus shortly after today’s Divine Liturgy at the Phanar, His All-Holiness spoke on the occasion of today’s 70th anniversary of the enthronement of Athenagoras as Ecumenical Patriarch, about the work and the multi-dimensional...
The Guardian : Ukraine-Russia tensions reach Greece’s holy Mount Athos
n the chilly pre-dawn gloom one recent morning, Father Makarios hurried to his chapel, one of dozens of churches and cathedrals across Mount Athos, to perform morning liturgy. A two-hour marathon of biblical recitations and sonorous chanting, it would be just one of...
The New York Times : As Ukraine and Russia Battle Over Orthodoxy, Schism Looms
By Andrew Higgins Dec. 31, 2018 CHERNYTSYA, Ukraine — Ukraine is on the verge of opening the biggest schism in Christianity in centuries, as it breaks from the authority of a Moscow-based patriarch and this week expects to formally gain recognition for its own church,...
The Guardian view on the Orthodox schism: theology and low politics
The Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, who reigns in Constantinople, has a magnificent title which corresponds to almost nothing on earth. Although he represents an unbroken tradition of almost 2,000 years of Christianity, Constantinople has been the Muslim city of...
Trump’s strategic unpredictability, its pros and its cons
By Colin Dueck, National Review What can be an asset against adversaries is often a liability with allies. “Don’t hold the ball so hard, okay? It’s an egg. Hold it like an egg.” — Crash Davis, Bull Durham President Trump’s sudden December announcement of U.S. military...
The U.S. Military’s Crisis of Imagination
By Seth Cropsey & Douglas J. Feith, Hudson Institute At the heart of national-security strategy is imagination. The strategist’s job is to dream up what enemies someday might do to harm us. But there’s a lot of history supporting the adage that generals forever...
From ‘Turn to the East’ to ‘Greater Eurasia’: Russia’s Abortive Search for a Far East Strategy
By: Sergey Sukhankin, Eurasia Daily Monitor On November 14, Dmitry Peskov the press secretary for the president of Russia, stated, “I am not a supporter of the theory that Russia is making some sort of drift to the East […] these words were said by political...
2019: 10 Conflicts to Watch
As U.S. leadership of the international order fades, more countries are seeking to bolster their influence by meddling in foreign conflicts. In this new era of limit testing, Crisis Group’s President Robert Malley lists the Ten Conflicts to Watch in 2019. Robert...
ISIL and al-Qaeda booksellers are thriving in Erdoğan’s Turkey
By Abdullah Bozkurt An al-Qaeda-linked bookstore owner in Istanbul who has been selling jihadist books to Turks continues to operate without many obstacles despite a clear pattern of radicalization among Turks who derive guidance from the poisonous literature,...
Turkey’s War on Christian Missionaries
by Uzay Bulut, Gatestone Institute American Pastor Andrew Brunson and American-Canadian evangelist David Byle are among many Christian clerics who have fallen victim to Turkey's aversion to Christianity. According to Claire Evans, regional manager of the organization...