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Friday June 30, 2006

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Many black Christians join move to Orthodox traditions

After a lifetime in traditional black churches, Robert Aaron Mitchell discovered the sights, smells, sounds and ancient traditions of the Orthodox church.
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Tuesday February 28, 2006

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Accusations of Misused Money Roil Orthodox Church

Allegations of financial misconduct are rocking the Orthodox Church in America, whose former treasurer says top officials misappropriated millions of dollars in donations from agribusiness titan Dwayne Andreas, U.S. military chaplains and ordinary parishioners across the country.
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Saturday February 5, 2005

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Greek church rocked by scandals

The Greek Orthodox Church has suspended a senior bishop over a scandal that has engulfed the clergy and the judiciary.
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Tuesday September 14, 2004

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Row over ‘Red Patriarch’ splits Bulgarian Orthodox church

On a central square in the Bulgarian capital, where Sofia's homeless fill up battered plastic water bottles from a public fountain, icons and a large wooden cross form a crude altar.
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Sunday September 12, 2004

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Greek Orthodox Church leader dies in helicopter crash

The Patriarch of Alexandria, Peter VII, one of the most senior figures in the Greek Orthodox Church, was killed along with 16 others in a helicopter crash in the Aegean Sea, church and government officials said.
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Monday July 19, 2004

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Kremlin sued for return of churches

More than 80 years after its churches were seized by "godless Bolsheviks" and turned into anything from grain stores to shoe factories the Russian Orthodox Church is launching an unprecedented legal battle to win back its property.
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Saturday May 15, 2004

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Service helps heal Russian Orthodox rift

Christians have attended an open-air service outside Moscow marking another step forward in improved relations between the Russian Orthodox Church and the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia.
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Friday January 30, 2004

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Orthodox Church leader calls US embargo of Cuba a “historical mistake,”

(HAVANA)- The leader of the Orthodox Church branded the US embargo of Cuba a "historic mistake" in a sermon Sunday during the full pomp inauguration of a new cathedral in Havana with President Fidel Castro in attendance.
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Saturday January 10, 2004

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Russian museum chief faces jail after show angers church

A Russian museum director has fallen foul of both church and state by organising a controversial exhibition that has been accused of offending Orthodox beliefs.
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Tuesday November 18, 2003

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Russian Orthodox Church freezes ties with Episcopal Church over gay bishop

MOSCOW, Nov. 17 — The Russian Orthodox Church announced Monday that it is suspending ties with the U.S. Episcopal Church over its consecration of an openly gay bishop, saying that homosexuality is a sin and that it ''cannot condone the perversion of human nature.''
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Friday February 7, 2003

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Crusade to make Rasputin a saint splits church

Daily Telegraph (England), Feb. 6, 2003
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Thursday October 17, 2002

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Jesus film enrages Orthodox Church

Vladivostok News (Russia), Oct. 16, 2002
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