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May 2013

May 15, 2013

Hey Reuters: Historic details really matter in Istanbul

Istanbul is the kind of place in which the past often seems to be just...

April 2013

April 25, 2013

Yes, we know two Orthodox bishops are missing in Syria

Editor's note: This happens now and then, every two or three years. Two GetReligion writers...

April 25, 2013

Kidnapped Syrian bishops still missing, despite reports

Horrible news out of Syria, where two Orthodox bishops were kidnapped. There hasn't been enough...

April 01, 2013

Christians wary on Easter (sort of) in Syria

Every religion writer has experienced those awkward moments each year when an editor walks over...

March 2013

March 29, 2013

Whoa! Questions about marriage and religious liberty!

Yesterday some of us got a bit academic (and some of us practiced calling people...

March 28, 2013

Got news? Egyptian Copts tortured for some strange reason

Yes, I know that we're talking about a report on Fox News. That fact alone,...

March 22, 2013

Ghosts in news about those monks and their simple caskets

So, in one level, my primary task in this post is to point GetReligion readers...

March 21, 2013

Hey CNN: Ghosts in the ties that bind Cyprus and Russia

So I'm sitting in a restaurant eating my lunch and, up on the wall, the...

March 20, 2013

Did ‘the’ leader of the Orthodox attend the Rome rites?

So, let's assume that you are a Catholic leader and you pick up your morning...

March 08, 2013

Antisemitism and when context matters for the NY Times

This week, the conservative Weekly Standard broke a story that was headlined: Michelle Obama and...

February 2013

February 22, 2013

Got news? A fishy hole in all those Lent stories

So it's a Friday in Lent (only in Western churches, at this point), so what...

February 14, 2013

Are ashes to go a Protestant no-no?

This week's celebration of Ash Wednesday has prompted several stories built around the theme of...

February 06, 2013

About those Orthodox hermits in the Siberian wild

Every now and then, someone sends your GetReligionistas the URL for a story that is...

January 2013

January 21, 2013

BBC misses religious-liberty ghost in St. Francisville, La.

Through the years, your GetReligionistas have gone out of our way to note that it's...

December 2012

December 31, 2012

God save the Tsar

Take up the White Man's burden-- In patience to abide, To veil the threat of...

December 25, 2012

Xmas quiet in Jerusalem? Check the Julian calendar

Along with millions of other Americans, I am on the road this fine Christmas Day....

December 22, 2012

WWROD: Which denominations do what well?

So, GetReligion readers, have you submitted a religion-rooted question yet to veteran scribe Richard Ostling,...

December 12, 2012

Generic Armenians fleeing Syria for no particular reason

For news consumers who are closely following events on the ground in Syria, especially those...

December 06, 2012

Some journalists waking up to Egyptian realities?

Day after day the news from Egypt seems to get darker and more confusing. This...

December 05, 2012

Memory eternal: A giant of Orthodoxy has died

Let me state right up front that, as a member of an Antiochian Orthodox parish,...

November 2012

November 30, 2012

Hard-hitting questions for Egypt’s Morsi

The Associated Press brings us the latest from Cairo: Islamists approved a draft constitution for...

November 07, 2012

Spies of the Balkans

The 98-year old leader of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church has died. I guess you weren't...

November 06, 2012

And for the Copts, the winner is … the winner is?

First things first: I would like to stress that, while I am a member of...

October 2012

October 14, 2012

A quick, shallow visit to Mount Athos

Few subjects inspire the whole "National Geographic visits the strange natives" school of Godbeat journalism...

September 2012

September 28, 2012

Missing canaries in the Damascus coal mine

I realize that, as a member of an Antiochian Orthodox Christian parish, my concerns about...

August 2012

August 31, 2012

Pod people: Russia, religion, rock and riots

Call it the OTHER church-state controversy that is making waves in Russia right now. A...

August 20, 2012

Failing to cover the Christ Our Savior video riot

As you would imagine, I have received a few notes seeking my take, as a...