Christianity Now

Press Release
March 29, 2006

The organisations Armenica and ArmeniaDiaspora would hereby like to inform you about their world wide campaign of "Light the Night". The content of the campaign is stated below and further information can be viewed at http://www.armenica.org/light-the-night

On the eve of April 24th, we encourage all to "Light the Night" by lighting a candle through the night of the 23rd and into the morning of the 24th, in remembrance of the 1.5 million souls that fell victim to the annihilation machine of the Ottoman Empire. Each lit candle placed on the window sill will represent a soul lost throughout the years of 1915 and 1923. Together, let's "Light the Night"; let's vow to remember, to never forget, and to pursue justice and peace for all humanity.

The "Light the Night" campaign started last year in connection to the 90th remembrance day of the Armenian Genocide and we wish to continue this campaign hoping that it will be a permanent tradition. Last year the campaign received wide TV and radio coverage in Armenia and this year Printinfo has volunteered to contribute to the campaign by printing flyers free of charge for distribution within Armenia. We hope that you aslo could join us in this tradition.

For campaign flyer, banner, and other information, please visit http://www.armenica.org/light-the-night and help us spreading this information to as many as possible. You could also forward this email to proper recipients. This information is also available at http://www.armeniadiaspora.com

With best regards,

Armenica Editorial Staff
http://www.armenica.org

Since 2001 the mobile mp3-player by Apple, the i-pod, has taken over the world of music for people on their daily commute to work or school. For many it may just seem like a modern day version of the good old walkman, but the i-pod and its clones have recently given way to a new phenomenon called podcasting where people can get the latest version of their favourite radio show into their mobile device and listen to it in the privacy of their own headset whenever they feel like it.

It is no wonder that Christian circles have also taken up this new technology and try to use it for edifying and mission purposes. “Godcasting” this type of podcasting is sometimes called.

Now the Jesuit community has also gone mobile and launched a new service called Pray as You Go.

Daily Bible readings and reflections can be downloaded – or podcasted – into your mp3 player. While the world runs stressful around trying to get to work on time you can lean back and relax to the music and the tender voice of the Jesuits. On the Pray as You Go website you can also download breathing and body exercises to help you keep focused. And just before you go to bed you can do the ancient jesuite exercise of reviewing the day trying to see where God was present and spoke to you. You can do this guided by the mp3 sound as your wife reads the latest Fay Weldon novel before sleeping or is already snoring loudly besides you.

It is the spirituality of the i-pod generation. You can enjoy it at www.pray-as-you-go.org

This is how the Orthodox approach to ecumenism is defined in the free and user made online lexicon. It think it witnesses a specific theological discourse rather than being something in a lexicon.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecumenism as of 15 march 2006 (Emphasis mine):

"Eastern Orthodoxy

Ecumenism for the Eastern Orthodox did not begin with the Roman Catholic Second Vatican Council. It is the Eastern Orthodox churches' work to embrace estranged communions as (possibly former) beneficiaries of a common gift, and simultaneously to guard against a promiscuous and false union with them. The history of the relationship between Eastern Orthodoxy and the Oriental Orthodox churches is a case in point. Likewise, the Eastern Orthodox have been leaders in the Interfaith movement, and some Orthodox patriarchs enlisted their communions as charter members of the World Council of Churches. Nevertheless, the Orthodox have not been willing to participate in any redefinition of the Christian faith toward a reduced, minimal, anti-dogmatic and anti-traditional Christianity. Christianity for the Eastern Orthodox is the Church; and the Church is Orthodoxy—nothing less and nothing else. Therefore, while Orthodox ecumenism is "open to dialogue with the devil himself", the goal is to reconcile all non-Orthodox back into Orthodoxy."

As reported earlier by the Habitus Network the situation in Northern Uganda is very serious and this far the churches have kept silent. But now something is beginning happen from the side of the churches the Church of England Newspaper reports. The UK Bishop of Winchester Michael Scott-Joynt has raised the matter in the House of Lords urging "the government to declare the northern part of the country a disaster zone and highlighted the need for international assistance there."

I came across this article by Ulla Hom on the homepage of the Danish Institute for International Studies.
Hans Christian Andersen can also be used in the current international crisis of the cartoons of Mohammed it seems.

Have look at http://www.diis.dk/sw19878.asp

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The Habitus Network is proud to present movie critique from a Christian perspective done by Signis president and a life-time movie lover Fr. Peter Malone MSC.

Go to the movie reviews

The section is currently being filled with movie reviews so please make sure to visit often in the coming weeks!

Salman Rushdie and 11 other intellectuals have issued a statement on totalitarian islamism.

Together facing the new totalitarianism

After having overcome fascism, Nazism, and Stalinism, the world now faces a new totalitarian global threat: Islamism.

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