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The aim of the eastxwest Religious Studies Network is to:
+ Build up our Christian life by sharing our faith with other Christians.
+ To post video and text articles sharing the rich traditions of the universal Church.
+ To post articles and conference reports in Jewish Christian and inter-Christian dialogue, with a particular emphasis on the progress of Pan Orthodox and Orthodox Catholic dialogue.
+ To develop albums of images for the use of iconographers and church artists.
+ Peer to peer sharing of religious education and discussion, catechetics, university studies, icon writing etc. we are currently engaged in and get feedback.
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+ To look at the inter-cultural context in which many churches are situated, including inter-faith dialogue.
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+ Developing material for 'The Diary of the Virgin Mary after Pentecost.'
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Coptic & Oriental Orthodox The French Senate approves a bill making it a crime to deny genocide was committed by Turks against Armenians in World War I. There is general agreement that hundreds of thousands of Armenians died when the Ottoman Turks deported them en masse from eastern Anatolia to the Syrian desert and elsewhere...more in 1915-16. They were killed or died from starvation or disease. This particularly hit Christian Armenians, largely Orthodox.
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Coptic & Oriental Orthodox Please support this appeal from the Orthodox of Eritrea - either in prayer or donations or both! 02:16  Help Us Breath Like You Do
Sign The Petition Here http://www.abuneantonios.com/petition.php
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Icon Studies A really serious new album has gone up on the e-studies site - I have done quite a few designs for it as examples.
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Coptic & Oriental Orthodox January 2012. Armenia.His Holiness Aram I chaired several ecumenical meetings held in Antelias. The day began with a meeting with Archbishop George Saliba of the Sytrian Orthodox Church. His Holiness and the Archbishop discussed issues concerning the Oriental Orthdox Churches in the region and more...morespecifically in Syria. They also discussed the forthcoming Roman Catholic Orthodox Dialogue to be held in Ethiopia in the coming week.
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Coptic & Oriental Orthodox 18th January. A collective wedding ceremony for 50 of the Palestinian prisoners freed during the recent prisoner exchange deal agreed between Israel and the Hamas Movement has been held in the Gaza Strip. Photos at this link. www.middleeastmonitor.org.uk/news/middle-east/3293-collective-wedding-ceremony-held-for-freed-prisoners-in-gaza
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Coptic & Oriental Orthodox 20th January. Israeli occupation authorities have confiscated more land belonging to Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. The latest land grab has taken place in the village of Alkahs, to the east of Bethlehem. The head of the Alkahs village council, Khader Hamdan, told Quds Press that the...morel "received a notice for the confiscation of 67 acres of the lands of Alkhas village, located behind the racist apartheid wall, adjacent to Bethlehem". The land is owned by the Hamdan family.
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Coptic & Oriental Orthodox 20th January. Christian workers are fleeing Kashmir valley after a fatwa was issued against three Christian leaders - a Protstant pastor, Catholic missionary and Christian worker were found guilty of "luringthe valley muslims to Christianity." www.persecution.org/2012/01/22/tensions-rise-in-kashmir-india-after-guilty-verdict-fatwa/
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Jewish Studies Growing lemons in Israel's desert belt. Often the water issue here is reported as part of the broader tension between the Israelis and the Palestinians. A French parliamentary report, for example, recently concluded that the 450,000 Israeli settlers who live on the West Bank of the River...more, in defiance of international opinion, use more water than the 2.3 million Palestinians whose home it is. But there is a larger issue which may in the end be more important still. That is the alarming way in which the amount of water in the lakes and rivers which support life for everyone here is dwindling.Many of the smaller rivers fed by the River Jordan are dry for most of the year. www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16654390
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Sancti Angeli Benedictine Skete "Many people wish to enter the kingdom, but without labour, without exploits, it is impossible" says St. Macarius. Come along you pioneering spirits and scale the heights!
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Orthodox Christian Jan 19th is the feast of St. Macarius the great. This is a really good video for meditating on his spirit - orthodox chant with icons and overlay of his teachings 05:54  Teachings of Saint Macarius the Great + Διδασκαλίες του Αγίου Μακάριος
SAINT MACARIUS THE GREAT OF EGYPT (300 - 391): TEACHINGS AND SAYINGS. Greek Orthodox chant "Dipsai" (in Greek) accompanies the presentation. Holy Icons of Saint Macarius the Great - the light and lamp of the desert.
ПОВЧАННЯ СВЯТОГО МАКАРІЯ ВЕЛИКОГО...moremoreОГО), англійською. Грецький православний спів "Діпсаі" супруводжує презентацію. Святі ікони преподобного Макарія Єгипетського.
Перкладено на англійську з українського видання / Quotes translated from Ukrainian edition "Spiritual Heritage of Holy Fathers" (2002):
Духовна Спадщина Святих Отців. Том 3. Св. Макарій Великий та Евагрій Понтійський. Львів: Місіонер, 2002.
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BRIEF BIOGRAPHY OF SAINT MACARIUS THE GREAT:
St. Macarius was born in Upper Egypt. A late tradition places his birthplace in the village of Shabsheer (Shanshour), in Egypt around 300 A.D.
At a young age, Macarius was forced to get married against his will. Thus, he pretended to be sick and ask for his parents' permission to go to the wilderness to relax. At his return, he found that his wife had died, and shortly after, his parents departed as well. Macarius subsequently distributed all his money among the poor and needy. Seeing his virtues, the people of his village brought him to the bishop of Ashmoun who ordained him priest.
While at the desert, he visited Anthony the Great and learned from him the laws and rules of monasticism. When he returned to the Scetic Desert at the age of forty, he presided over its monastic community for the rest of his life. Ten years after going into the desert, he became a priest.
For a brief period of time, Macarius was banished to an island in the Nile by the Emperor Valens, along with Saint Macarius of Alexandria, during a dispute over the doctrine of the Nicene Creed. At their return on 13 Paremhat, they were met by a multitude of monks of the Nitrian Desert, numbered fifty thousand, among whom were Saint Pishoy and Saint John the Dwarf.
Saint Macarius of Egypt founded a monastery that bears his name, the Monastery of Saint Macarius the Great, which has been continuously inhabited by monks since its foundation in the fourth century. Today it belongs to the Coptic Orthodox Church. Today, the most holy body (miracle-working relics) of Saint Macarius is found in his monastery, the Monastery of Saint Macarius the Great in Scetes, Egypt.
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