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ANTIOCHIAN ORTHODOX ARCHDIOCESE SUPPORTS IOCC HURRICANE RELIEF EFFORTS Posted on Tue Sep 27 2005: Baltimore (IOCC) – In a presentation made at one of three International Orthodox Christian Charities (IOCC) emergency response centers in the Gulf Coast region, Fr. John Salem of St. George Antiochian Orthodox Church presented a $125,000 contribution to the IOCC hurricane relief efforts on behalf of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America on September 20, 2005. "It has been, and always will be the policy of this God-protected Archdiocese to help our brothers and sisters around the world who have suffered from natural disasters,"...

Pope Asks Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church to Be Patient Patriarchate Plan Being Studied in Light of Orthodox Sensibilities VATICAN CITY, JUNE 3, 2004 (Zenit.org).- John Paul II shares the hopes of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church to be established as a patriarchate, but he asks for patience while the proposal is studied. The Pope is also taking into account the "evaluations" of the Orthodox Churches. He expressed this today when receiving in audience Cardinal Lubomyr Husar, archbishop major of Lviv of the Ukrainians, with the members of the Permanent Synod of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church. "I share your aspiration, well-founded in the...