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Metropolitan THEODOSIUS calls for prayers for tragedy victims on Saturday October 20 SYOSSET,NY--His Beatitude, Metropolitan Theodosius, Primate of the Orthodox Church in America has announced here that Saturday, October 20 – Saint Demetrius Memorial Saturday on the Orthodox Christian calendar – is to be set aside as a day of prayer for those who perished in New York City, Washington, DC and Pennsylvania on September 11, 2001. “Because the Memorial Saturday coincides with the 40th day of the tragedy, it is fitting that services be held in all parishes for the repose of the thousands of innocent victims of the ...

Our St. Herman Brotherhood and Monastery has for a long time had great respect and appreciation for the life, testimony and work of Pastor Richard Wurmbrand, a Jewish convert to Christianity who suffered for fourteen years in Communist prisons in Romania due to his unrelenting Christian activity. Back in 1979, our co-founder Fr. Seraphim Rose spoke about Pastor Wurmbrand to seminarians and pilgrims at Holy Trinity Monastery in Jordanville, New York. In succeeding years we corresponded with Pastor Wurmbrand himself, sent him Orthodox materials, and met with him at some of his speaking engagements. In 1996 our Brotherhood made personal ...

A controversial editorial that already caused a firestorm of criticism of the Oakland Tribune is surfacing as the paper negotiates a contract with its newsroom employees. Unionized employees in the newsroom of the Tribune and its six sister papers in ANG Newspapers are calling on management to put language in their contract that would prohibit discrimination against gays. The union is also seeking benefits for domestic partners. About 200 workers -- reporters, editors, photographers and graphic artists - - have been working without a contract since Friday. ANG, which is owned by William Dean Singleton's Media News Group in Denver, ...

Organizers of Oakland's gay pride festival have severed ties with their hometown newspaper, the Oakland Tribune, and started looking elsewhere for sponsorship of their annual gay pride events because of an editorial they deemed homophobic, reports the San Francisco Chronicle. The offending editorial labeled gay Berkeley City Councilman Kriss Worthington despicable and a coward for his protest against the city's playing host to Boy Scouts from Japan. The protest led Berkeley Mayor Shirley Dean to move the meeting out of town, prompting criticism from angry residents and others and ultimately an apology by Worthington. Gay activists were angered by the ...

CBS is taking the plunge into the turbulent waters of sexual transformation this fall - featuring a transsexual as a major character on TV for the first time. The Education of Max Bickford is a drama that stars Richard Dreyfuss as a college professor whose colleague, Steve, undergoes a sex-change operation to become Erica (played by Helen Shaver). Gay characters are practically the norm on many prime-time shows - but there has never been a regular transgender character before. The idea has stirred up concern among members of GLAAD - the national organization that represents gays - that the press ...

With My Own Eyes A Lutheran Pastor's Firsthand Account of Prison Life by Pastor Richard Wurmbrand Throughout the era of the Communist domination of Eastern Europe, there were many heroes who suffered and died in prison for trying to help Christians behind the Iron Curtain. One of the most well-known of these heroes is Pastor Richard Wurmbrand, a Lutheran minister who started an underground ministry in Romania in 1945. Of the next twenty years, he spent fourteen in prison. Finally ransomed out of Romania in 1965, he established a ministry to smuggle Bibles and practical aid to the families of ...

Letter from The Reverend John Matusiak to Tom Hess, Editor of Focus on the Family's Citizen Magazine Mr. Tom Hess, Editor Citizen Magazine 8605 Explorer Drive Colorado Springs, CO 80920-10151 Dear Mr. Hess, It has been brought to our attention by numerous Orthodox Christians across North America that in the September 2001 issue of Focus on the Family's Citizen Magazine [Volume 5, Number 9] there appears an editorial titled "Face to Face with the Persecuted Church" which details the difficult situation experienced by Christians in Jordan. The editorial accurately states that, while the majority of Jordan's citizens are Muslim, the ...

Orthodox are "Bible-believing Christians" Letter from The Reverend John Matusiak to Tom Hess, Editor of Focus on the Family's Citizen Magazine Mr. Tom Hess, Editor Citizen Magazine 8605 Explorer Drive Colorado Springs, CO 80920-10151 Dear Mr. Hess, It has been brought to our attention by numerous Orthodox Christians across North America that in the September 2001 issue of Focus on the Family's Citizen Magazine [Volume 5, Number 9] there appears an editorial titled "Face to Face with the Persecuted Church" which details the difficult situation experienced by Christians in Jordan. The editorial accurately states that, while the majority of Jordan's ...

MOSCOW –– Jewish activists complained Friday that an arson fire destroyed a synagogue in a western Russian city and that officials in the Tatar region were blocking efforts to rebuild a fire-gutted Jewish school. The allegations came amid concerns that anti-Semitism is rising in Russia. Russian law enshrines Judaism as one of the country's three "traditional" religions, along with Orthodox Christianity and Islam. But there have been repeated cases of bombings and vandalism at synagogues and Jewish cemeteries as well as attacks on Jews in recent years, and some politicians have made anti-Semitic remarks. The synagogue in Ryazan, about 90 ...

Public health officials are facing a perplexing challenge in fighting AIDS: with more treatments available to keep the disease at bay, people at risk are taking more chances. SAN FRANCISCO — He is safe most of the time. Use-a-condom safe. Protect yourself and your partner safe. Are you positive or negative safe? But there are also times when Seth Watkins, or Twilightchild, as he is known in the personal advertisements he places on the Internet, is not so careful. For example, when he visits the back room of the Powerhouse, a bar on Folsom Street, and has unprotected sex with ...

Public health officials are facing a perplexing challenge in fighting AIDS: with more treatments available to keep the disease at bay, people at risk are taking more chances. SAN FRANCISCO — He is safe most of the time. Use-a-condom safe. Protect yourself and your partner safe. Are you positive or negative safe? But there are also times when Seth Watkins, or Twilightchild, as he is known in the personal advertisements he places on the Internet, is not so careful. For example, when he visits the back room of the Powerhouse, a bar on Folsom Street, and has unprotected sex with ...

A pro-life educational outreach to Christian Orthodox communities is growing vigorously due to the initiative of Vera Faith Lord, a convert to the Orthodox Church. As a result of a briefing made by Vera and NRLC Outreach Director Ernest Ohlhoff to His Eminence Metropolitan Maximos, bishop of the Greek Orthodox Diocese of Pittsburgh, Metropolitan Maximos established a diocesan pro-life ministry devoted to educating the Greek Orthodox community about the tragedy and sin of abortion. His Eminence appointed Vera Faith Lord as the first diocesan pro-life coordinator in August 2000. Vera, who has experienced the tragedy of abortion in her own ...

I'm assisting a friend in doing some research concerning the opposition to C. Everett Koop's original appointment as Surgeon General. Any links to oppositions quotes would be greatly appreciated.

"Melissa Etheridge describes 'Lover Please,' the anguished song that opens her seventh album, 'Skin,' as 'classic Etheridge. ... I've learned, I've moved on now. ... I will never write from that place again, is what I'm trying to say.' "In other words, she's happy. Both 'Skin' and her autobiography ... center around her breakup with longtime partner Julie Cypher, with whom she has two children (biologically fathered by David Crosby). 'Skin' makes clear how painful this separation was. The story of how their 12-year relationship ended is a distressingly common tale of declining passion. Feeling increasingly sexually and romantically rejected, ...

When 21-year-old Avi Korman (not his real name) confided to his parents that he was experiencing unwanted homosexual urges, they weren't sure where to turn. Eventually, the young man and his parents approached Rabbi Sam Rosenberg for help. Rosenberg, an Orthodox Jewish therapist in family practice in New Jersey, did what he always did with new cases, namely research the options. He discovered that a number of therapy and support groups across the United States seemed to offer promising treatment. Most, though, were overtly religious, and none were Jewish. Eventually, the Kormans teamed up with several other Jewish families facing ...

A Gathering of Traditional Christians II November 8-10, 2001 University of St. Mary of the Lake Mundelein, Illinois In the spirit of our first “Gathering of Traditional Christians” at Rose Hill in South Carolina in 1995, Touchstone is pleased to announce a meeting of Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox Christians to examine together the issues that both unite and divide Christians in the 21st century. A great realignment of Christians is under way as many rediscover the resources of the Great Tradition while others reject it wholesale. At the same time, Christians face difficult challenges from an increasingly secularized culture. Meeting ...

IF I really, really want to, I can kill you. Even if you know some kung-fu technique to remove my still-beating heart, if I'm sufficiently determined I can murder you to death, as the saying goes. This goes for robbing, burglarizing, and even excessive mopery. Almost nothing can stop me.

Facing the Truth about AIDS David Horowitz’s Guest Appearance on Fox News’s "Special Report with Brit Hume" For more information on AIDS and the so-called public awareness campaign, read David Horowitz’s recent Salon.com article … Fox News | June 14, 2001 Brit Hume: This year is the 20th anniversary of the onset of the AIDS epidemic, and it comes amid disturbing evidence that the epidemic is now worsening. This despite the major expenditure of public money on research on the disease and a vast public awareness campaign that made those little AIDS ribbons the fixture on lapels at countless events. ...

Liberalism used to be a vision of justice; it has increasingly become, outside the economic sphere, the dogma of those who want to do whatever they damn well please. — Martin Peretz

Porn film actress stoned to death in Iran prison TEHRAN, May 21 (AFP) - An Iranian woman convicted of acting in pronographic films has been stoned to death in the prison where she has been held for the last eight years, a newspaper reported Monday. The unnamed 35-year-old was buried in a pit and pelted with stones until she died in the centre of Tehran's Evin prison, the Entekhab paper said, adding that she had been tracked down after an intensive police search. It said investigators only succeeded in finding her after they noticed the serial number of an electricity ...