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Ben Werner,
Student Newspaper Editor
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The Orthodox Church which had found a comfortable way of coexistence with the Communist Regime and had fully developed hierarchical structure, was the first to profit from the new situation.
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Chogyam Trungpa Gyatso,
Tibetan Monk
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The Orthodox view the icons as windows to heaven and they are used for meditation and prayer, not unlike various devices are sometimes used for centering in retreats in our own church.
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Sveta Romanova,
Intelligence Officer
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It was with a deep pain of heart that the whole Russian Orthodox Church heart received news on the bombing of the territory of the Republic of Yugoslavia fraternal to the Russian Orthodox people.
The Russian Orthodox Church authorities will continue to do all that is possible to keep reminding the powerful of the hard lot facing those who do not receive pensions and salaries and of the miserable condition of the people, many of whom have been thrown far below the poverty line.
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Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder
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The Russian Orthodox church condemned the Alutiiq and Aleut cultures as being shamanism and dubbed all of their spiritual leaders as shamans.
The Orthodox Church has survived two millenia of persecution.
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David Rosenberg,
Dermatologist
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Many Orthodox Christians in America proudly trace their ancestry to the lands and cultures of Europe and Asia, but the Orthodox Church in the United States can no longer be seen as an immigrant Church.
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Mark Harris,
Priest
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Orthodox Protestants do not understand themselves to be acknowledging an infallible church by receiving the scripture, but see themselves as submitting to those scriptures just as the early church submitted to those scriptures by its act of receiving them.
We are ORTHODOX in following the teachings of the Seven Ecumenical Councils of the Undivided Church proclaimed in the ancient creeds, adhering faithfully to the principles of Apostolic Succession and a life of worship through the Holy Mysteries, the Seven Sacraments.
The Syriac Orthodox are the faithful of one of the oldest apostolic Churches, the Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch.
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