On February 2, 2021, the Orthodox Church in America’s Diocese of the West sent this letter out from Archbishop Benjamin. This originally appears on the Orthodox Christian site Monomakhos.com, and we are indebted to George and Gail Michalapulos for their dedication in running it. We reprint it in full for the reasons of fairness in […]
A partial, but significant victory took place on Friday, February 5th, as the United States Supreme Court struck down the ban the California state government placed on indoor worship in churches across the state. At issue, of course, was COVID-19 and its potential to affect people, but more the case appears to be the government’s […]
The World Health Organization (WHO) issued new guidelines for treating gonorrhea that reflect the looming threat posed by antibiotic resistance.
Under the U.N. health agency’s new directives, gonorrhea, a sexually transmitted disease (STD), should no longer be treated with a class of antibiotics called quinolones, because quinolone-resistant strains of the disease have emerged all over the world. [1]
