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Russian-American Aviator Sikorsky and the Failure of Ukrainian and Western Propaganda

alayham — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 16:49:36 +0000

Russian-American Aviator Sikorsky and the Failure of Ukrainian and Western Propaganda alayham Mon, 01/29/2024 - 17:49

«We are Russians, and Kiev is ours.» ~Ivan Sikorsky, psychiatrist and Igor Sikorsky’s father Since the 2022 escalation of the 2014- war in Ukraine, major Western media sources have been routinely churning out article after article sprinkled with glowing, thinly veiled propaganda about the supposedly heroic feats performed by Ukraine’s 18th Separate Army Aviation Brigade, named after aviator … Continue reading Russian-American Aviator Sikorsky and the Failure of Ukrainian and Western Propaganda

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John Varoli: Unrepentant Bully: NATO uses WWII Victory Day to amp up war fervor [Video]

alayham — Fri, 12 May 2023 00:57:18 +0000

John Varoli: Unrepentant Bully: NATO uses WWII Victory Day to amp up war fervor [Video] alayham Fri, 05/12/2023 - 02:57

This is a direct reprint from John Varoli’s Substack. Worthwhile reading. While Moscow celebrated the 78th anniversary of Victory over Nazism, a hostile Western bloc again agitated for Russia’s destruction. This will only intensify Russian resistance. NATO ideologues no longer hide their desire to destroy Russia. This week in the British newspaper The Guardian, just […]

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The War on Orthodox Christianity in Ukraine

alayham — Sat, 01 Apr 2023 21:00:40 +0000

The War on Orthodox Christianity in Ukraine alayham Sat, 04/01/2023 - 23:00

«We will not cast pearls before you, Muscovite swine. You are a powerless biomass. We will not only take this church from you, but we will also take everything. We will kick you out from our land and from the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra.» -Greek Catholic priest Nikolai Medinsky, Kolomyia, Ivano-Frankovsk oblast, Ukraine, October 27, 2017. He … Continue reading The War on Orthodox Christianity in Ukraine

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What can be healed in this war?

alayham — Mon, 09 Jan 2023 18:10:10 +0000

What can be healed in this war? alayham Mon, 01/09/2023 - 19:10

by William Spencer for the Saker blog What can be healed in this war? It seems miraculous that I was drawn to the Russian sphere in the past several years,

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The Vatican, Natural Theology & The Denial of the Trinity – Open Forum Q n A / Debate Part 2

alayham — Tue, 09 Nov 2021 06:06:54 +0000

The Vatican, Natural Theology & The Denial of the Trinity – Open Forum Q n A / Debate Part 2 alayham Tue, 11/09/2021 - 07:06

Part 2 due to stream issues. Today we will have open forum Q n A and debate concerning the Vatican support for the new “Abrahamic Faith Center” based on Francis’ joint statement with the Grand Imam, with the explicit acceptance of humanism. Having become primarily a geopolitical tool / NGO, the Vatican is now […]
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Sergey Lavrov expresses amazement at Trump impeachment farce [Video]

alayham — Fri, 19 Feb 2021 09:20:27 +0000

Sergey Lavrov expresses amazement at Trump impeachment farce [Video] alayham Fri, 02/19/2021 - 10:20

While the United States’ government and religious structures reflect the decay in this increasingly feckless country (amplified by a fake election and a fake President!), Russia and Serbia show the world an alternative: Reality. Christianity. A rejection of secularism and globalism. Dr Steve Turley offers his summary of recent developments, showing that Sergey Lavrov slammed […]

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Top 10 Bad Arguments for Protestantism’s ‘Bible Alone’ / Debate Review – Fr Dcn, Jay Dyer, Lewis

alayham — Thu, 08 Oct 2020 20:23:31 +0000

Top 10 Bad Arguments for Protestantism’s ‘Bible Alone’ / Debate Review – Fr Dcn, Jay Dyer, Lewis alayham Thu, 10/08/2020 - 22:23

Fr Dcn, Praxis, Qai, Greedo and others join me to cover the recent debate Fr Dcn Ananias had with Protestant apologist Matt Slick. We will cover Matt’s claims and approach, our analysis of the debate and the presuppositions of authority in Orthodoxy versus the lack of normative authority in Protestantism. Following the review, […]
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The Philosophy of Women, Life & God – Tristan Tate / Jay Dyer

alayham — Wed, 02 Sep 2020 17:13:26 +0000

The Philosophy of Women, Life & God – Tristan Tate / Jay Dyer alayham Wed, 09/02/2020 - 19:13

A controversial interview! One half of the infamous Tate brothers joins me to discuss the basics of life: women, life, relationships, and other big questions. Tristan recently expressed interest in Orthodoxy and mutuals requested a discussion. Former Kickboxer Tristan has a unique perspective on life as a fighter and hopefully we can help move him into the realm of Orthodoxy.

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Dark day for Christianity, dark day for Greeks. Hagia Sophia to become mosque (Video)

alayham — Sat, 11 Jul 2020 13:14:39 +0000

Dark day for Christianity, dark day for Greeks. Hagia Sophia to become mosque (Video) alayham Sat, 07/11/2020 - 15:14

The Duran’s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss the decision by Turkish leader Erdogan, and Turkish courts, to convert the Hagia Sophia, a global symbol of Christianity and Orthodox faith, into a mosque.

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Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Friday night denounced Turkey’s decision to reconvert Hagia Sophia into a mosque, saying it was an affront to the monument’s global significance and that the move would not only adversely impact Turkey’s relations with Greece but also with the EU, UNESCO and the global community.
“Greece categorically condemns Turkey’s decision to convert Hagia Sophia to a mosque,” Mitsotakis said, noting that the move, which comes 85 years after its transformation into a museum, “is an affront to its ecumenical character.”
The decision, Mitsotakis said, will not only influence Turkey’s relations with Greece but also with the EU, UNESCO and the world community.
It is “regretful,” he added that Turkey’s leadership, which worked for the United Nations] Alliance of Civilizations in 2005, “is now choosing to move in the opposite direction.”
Mitsotakis’ full statement in English:
*Statement by the Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis*
Greece categorically condemns Turkey’s decision to convert Hagia Sophia to a mosque. This decision, taken 85 years after Hagia Sophia was declared a museum, is an affront to its ecumenical character. Furthermore, it is a decision that offends all those who recognize Hagia Sophia as an indispensable part of world cultural heritage. This decision clearly affects not only Turkey’s relations with Greece but also its relations with the European Union, UNESCO, and the world community as a whole. It is a truly regretful development that the Turkish leadership, after working for the Alliance of Civilizations in 2005, has now taken the decision to reverse course.
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New Study: Orthodox Church of Ukraine Divided Orthodoxy

alayham — Sat, 30 May 2020 14:22:19 +0000

New Study: Orthodox Church of Ukraine Divided Orthodoxy alayham Sat, 05/30/2020 - 16:22

Submitted by Nadia Bazuk…
In early May, the Swiss Center for Security Studies at ETH Zurich published its new report on Constantinople’s invasion to the canonical territory of the Russian Orthodox Church and its impact on the religious life in the country and the situation in world Orthodoxy.
According to the study by Nikolay Mitrokhin, a Research Fellow at the Research Centre for East European Studies (Forschungsstelle Osteuropa) at the University of Bremen, the decision of the Ecumenical Patriarchate to directly interfere in the Ukrainian church situation caused a serious crisis in Orthodoxy. The Phanar’s actions led to a deeper division between the “Greek” and Moscow-based coalitions. “On the one hand, the churches dominated by the Greek diaspora — Ecumenical Patriarchate, Hellenic, Alexandria and Cyprus — and on the other hand, the churches ideologically and organizationally connected with Moscow — the ROC, Antioch (Syria), Bulgarian, Georgian, Serbian, and Polish Orthodox churches, as well as the Orthodox Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia,” the author writes. Moreover, some Local Churches’ efforts to resolve the conflict (e.g. the meeting of Orthodox Churches in Amman organized by the Patriarchate of Jerusalem) were strongly opposed by Constantinople.
The same thought is expressed by Alexander Ponomariov in his analysis “International Implications of Ukrainian Autocephaly (2019–2020)” (p. 10 of the Digest). He claims that the Orthodox commonwealth is facing an “imminent danger of schism” while “Greek” Churches react to their indisputable neo-post-Byzantine leader, the Ecumenical Patriarchate”, and against the background of the COVID-19 outbreak.
The Ecumenical Patriarchate’s strategy concerning Ukraine caused an open standoff between it and the Russian Orthodox Church. Mitrokhin claims that in order to repulse the Phanar’s attacks, the ROC revoked the traditional system of “friendship, hostility, or seeking a balance of interests with national Orthodox Churches” and turned to a “hybrid” network of friendship and business relations. In 2019, when Constantinople granted the Tomos of autocephaly (independence) to the newly created Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU), the Moscow Patriarchate break off contact with it but when the Churches of Greece and Alexandria recognized the OCU, the Russian Orthodox Church decided to cut ties only with those clergymen of these Churches who approved of the recognition.
Another step of Moscow was the creation of two new exarchates – West European and South East Asian, which became a “punch in the nose” for the Ecumenical Patriarchate. “The first included European countries west of Germany, the second to the south and east of mainland China. Of course, the ROC already had parishes and dioceses in these regions, but the creation of exarchates (the ROC has not had them outside the former USSR for a long time) means a new level of symbolic claims. Previously, in the system of “world Orthodoxy,” the Ecumenical Patriarchate was given the role of coordinator of Orthodox life outside the territories controlled by national churches and traditional patriarchates. […] The ROC exarchates are a clear effort to change this status,” the study says.
Even more dramatic was the impact of the Ecumenical Patriarchate on the Ukrainian Orthodoxy. The creation of the OCU led to numerous local conflicts during forced transition of parishes supported by former president Poroshenko and right-wing radical parties.
According to the author’s data, based on conversations with high-ranking church officials and activists both in Kyiv and in the most affected dioceses, the UOC has hopelessly lost at least 200 communities (and about 150 priests), some 250 communities have split up and it is impossible to serve in their churches (but the priests have remained in the UOC); another 100 communities serve in the same churches as before, but are formally transferred to the OCU.
“Approximately 200 communities joined the OCU voluntarily or fearful of closure, […] in the vast majority of other cases, however, decisions to “transfer a community” to the OCU were not made by the community itself at the parish assembly, but by the territorial (rural) community.” Such transitions were impossible before the amendments to the Law on Freedom of Conscience, very vague in terms of the norms for deciding on the transition, were introduced by Poroshenko’s government in January 2019.
In the first months of 2019 in hundreds of villages in six of the seven regions of Western Ukraine (except the Transcarpathian region), as well as in Khmelnytsky, Vinnytsky, Zhytomyr regions there were fierce skirmishes between OCU supporters who tried to seize churches and UOC supporters who tried to keep them. UOC activists, lacking any help from Kyiv, have to set up networks of mutual support to protect themselves.
The way the UOC can defend its parishes from seizures is to legally confront its opponents. Currently, there are 60 lawsuits against various regional administrations for illegal re-registration of parishes. Courts mostly support the UOC and confirm that parishes’ transitions were illegal.
Instead of uniting the Ukrainian faithful, the OCU divided them. Conflicts (including the ones between the former church organizations which are now part of the OCU) across the whole country continue. Up to this moment, approximately 350 communities that the OCU already considers its own haven’t completed the process of transition yet. It’s still unknown how many parishes belong to the OCU (according to various estimates, it has from 3,500 to 7,000 parishes).
Besides, according to Nikolay Mitrokhin’s another study (“Atheisten des Kiewer Patriarchats’. Die Kirchenfrage in der Ukraine nach dem Tomos”) the OCU attendance is relatively low especially compared to those of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
The key factor affecting the attendance is that the Ukrainian Orthodox Church succeeded in preserving its unity despite all efforts of the previous authorities. For the OCU, unity is still unreachable and unfortunately now it looks like the normalization of the religious situation in Ukraine will last for decades.

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