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		<title>Many black Christians join move to Orthodox traditions</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a lifetime in traditional black churches, Robert Aaron Mitchell discovered the sights, smells, sounds and ancient traditions of the Orthodox church.
&#8220;I discovered Orthodoxy while I was on the Internet one day back in 2001, and I was so drawn to it that I had to go attend a liturgy,&#8221; Mitchell says. &#8220;I had no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Accusations of Misused Money Roil Orthodox Church</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.
The highest officers of the 400,000-member denomination, an offshoot of the Russian Orthodox Church, are accused of using the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Greek church rocked by scandals</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Greek Orthodox Church has suspended a senior bishop over a scandal that has engulfed the clergy and the judiciary. 
He is one of several clergymen alleged to have tried to influence or bribe judges to fix the outcome of trials - some involving drug dealers.
Another priest was arrested on Friday accused of involvement in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Row over &#8216;Red Patriarch&#8217; splits Bulgarian Orthodox church</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2004 11:01:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On a central square in the Bulgarian capital, where Sofia&#8217;s homeless fill up battered plastic water bottles from a public fountain, icons and a large wooden cross form a crude altar.
Nearby, members of a rag-tag congregation sit on peeling park benches serving as makeshift pews. Moving among them are dozens of long-bearded figures wearing the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Greek Orthodox Church leader dies in helicopter crash</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Sep 2004 11:30:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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. 
The patriarch, the spiritual leader of Greek Orthodox Christians in Africa, was heading to the Mount Athos monastery in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kremlin sued for return of churches</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2004 00:27:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[More than 80 years after its churches were seized by &#8220;godless Bolsheviks&#8221; 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.
Furious that the Russian state still owns most of the country&#8217;s churches 13 years after the collapse of Communism, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Service helps heal Russian Orthodox rift</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 May 2004 17:57:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.
Around 10,000 people gathered at the site of a former secret police base where thousands of people were executed under Soviet dictator Stalin for the service, conducted by the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Orthodox Church leader calls US embargo of Cuba a &#8220;historical mistake,&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2004 11:11:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(HAVANA)- The leader of the Orthodox Church branded the US embargo of Cuba a &#8220;historic mistake&#8221; in a sermon Sunday during the full pomp inauguration of a new cathedral in Havana with President Fidel Castro in attendance.
Bartholomew I, the Orthodox ecumenical patriarch of Constantinople, made the statement during a sermon that formed part of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Russian museum chief faces jail after show angers church</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2004 08:26:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.
The director of the Sakharov museum, named after the Soviet-era dissident Andrei Sakharov, has been charged with inciting religious hatred for staging the exhibition entitled Look out, Religion!. If found guilty, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Russian Orthodox Church freezes ties with Episcopal Church over gay bishop</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2003 13:05:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8221;cannot condone the perversion of human nature.&#8221;
&#8221;Homosexual sexual contact has always been considered a grave sin by the [...]]]></description>
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