Church News …

“I read this week that the Orthodox Church has opened ordination to women to serve as deacons.”

Here’s the Scoop, sorta.

Patriarch hails pope’s pledge
ANKARA (AP) – The spiritual leader of the world’s Orthodox Christians yesterday welcomed Pope Benedict XVI’s pledge to end a schism between the Catholic and Orthodox churches, calling it a mutual “obligation to God,” but warned that the path to unity would be “slow and painful.”

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“Reconciliation is a process of repentance,” Vartholomaios said. “If we are to move forward in a journey of reconciliation, then we must truthfully acknowledge the errors of the past. If we cannot stand united in the theological doctrines that divide us, we can at least kneel in earnest repentance over the disgraceful prejudices that were the cause of suffering in the past.”

Abortion & Anti-Ageing
WEALTHY Russians are switching from investing their roubles in luxury yachts and designer jewellery to stem cell therapies in an attempt to maintain the vitality of youth into their old age.

The treatments, in which stem cells extracted from aborted or miscarried foetuses are injected into the body, is the latest anti-ageing weapon, following Botox injections and facelifts, to keep Moscow’s youth-obsessed high society looking young.

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Thanks: New Forum

PENTECOST … stumbling on water.

Finally …

MOUNT SINAI, Egypt (Reuters) – The world’s oldest monastery plans to use hi-tech cameras to shed new light on ancient Christian texts preserved for centuries within its fortress walls in the Sinai Desert.

Saint Catherine’s Monastery hopes the technology will allow a fuller understanding of some of the world’s earliest Christian texts, including pages from the Codex Sinaiticus — the oldest surviving bible in the world.

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