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from Asia Times Online
News & Media Website
The fact that US forces are still in Afghanistan after 17 years of fighting and the incumbent administration has not found any workable solutions to the Afghan conundrum is not surprising when you consider the country’s history. The British and Czarist empires and later the Soviet Union also failed to achieve their desired objectives in Afghanistan.
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from Orthodox Christianity
Organization in Moscow, Russia
The following article describes in detail and scrupulously analyzes the historical events connected with the arrangement of Church life in Kiev, Moscow, and Western Rus’ over the span of the last millennium. Over that period of time, the unity of the Russian Orthodox Church has been attacked a number of times from various sides, but it has nevertheless continued to exist significantly longer than those broken periods. In Byzantine times it was namely the Church of Constantinople that advocated for this unity against the rising political conflicts between one or another Russian princedom. Only the Byzantium elite itself was able to tear the metropolia of all the Russias from Constantinople, when it first tried to use Russian Orthodoxy as a bargaining chip in its desperate attempt to get the West to come to the aid of perishing Constantinople, and then allowed the Uniate metropolitan to usurp the title of the primate of “All Rus’”; but the objective course of history has given a comprehensive answer to this question, fixed in a whole series of ecclesiastical-canonical documents cited by the author, which leave no grounds for any lawful reinterpretation whatsoever.
A huge cement Christian cross, which was built on the rocky shore of Apelli, under the castle of Mytilene in Lesvos, in honour of the people that have died swimming there has been pulled down as a co-existence group based on the island claimed it was offensive to migrants who are not Christian.
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from Psephizo Blog
Is the Bishops’ Policy on Civil Partnerships Sustainable?
The House of Bishops’ position on civil partnerships and same-sex sexual relationships is defined by three statements.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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How to Be a Good Friend, According to an Ancient Philosopher
Cicero’s little book on friendship had a tremendous influence on writers in the ages following him, from St. Augustine to the Italian poet Dante and beyond, and was one of the earliest books translated into and printed in English. It is no less valuable today. In a modern age of technology and a relentless focus on the self that threatens the very idea of deep and lasting friendships, Cicero has more to say to us than ever.
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from Time Media/News Company
How to Be a Good Friend, According to an Ancient Philosopher
Cicero’s little book on friendship had a tremendous influence on writers in the ages following him, from St. Augustine to the Italian poet Dante and beyond, and was one of the earliest books translated into and printed in English. It is no less valuable today. In a modern age of technology and a relentless focus on the self that threatens the very idea of deep and lasting friendships, Cicero has more to say to us than ever.
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