World & Nation
Oxnard’s Orthodox Churches Keep Branch Alive and Aglow
Jan. 16, 1999
Retirement: Archbishop Iakovos has been known for his efforts to bring the world’s religions closer together.
July 6, 1996
Patriarch Dimitrios I, spiritual leader of the world’s 300 million Eastern Orthodox Christians and a champion of Christian unity, died Wednesday of a heart attack, his doctor said.
Oct. 3, 1991
Conference explores the phenomenon of recent converts flocking to the Massachusetts theology school that trains priests in the ancient faith.
Oct. 19, 2002
It happened 43 years ago, but Nicholas Royce is not about to forget the day he was inducted into the Army at Ft.
Dec. 14, 1989
Books
THE GNOSTIC SCRIPTURES: A NEW TRANSLATION WITH ANNOTATIONS AND INTRODUCTIONS by Bentley Layton (Doubleday: $35; 470 pp.).
June 28, 1987
Visiting from Damascus, the patriarch of Antioch speaks of bringing separate Orthodox groups together and battling societal decay. ‘Some say we Christians are obsessed with sin. It is because we . . . [see] the reality that is around us,’ he says.
Aug. 7, 1999
Russia: Religious freedom belongs only to the Orthodox Church, a lasting memento of its service to the Soviet Union.
Oct. 1, 1997
In his first foray outside Rome, the new pontiff aims his message at Eastern Orthodoxy.
May 30, 2005
In an escalating conflict between religious pluralism and Roman Catholic orthodoxy, the Vatican is investigating an American Jesuit theologian who proposed, in an award-winning book, that people can find salvation by means other than Jesus Christ.
April 25, 2001