Dear Fellow Orthodox Christian and other friends,

Welcome to the Orthodox Christian News at yahoo groups.

We are a clearinghouse of news articles, announcements and related information
about Orthodox Christianity. We encourage you to assist in the gathering. Keep
in mind that the articles have to at least mention Orthodoxy or Orthodox
Christian persons. Eastern Orthodox or Oriental Orthodox Churches are both
included here.

The articles can be:

- News articles, national or international

- Published op-ed pieces or editorials

- Announcements of upcoming conferences,retreats and/or lectures

The articles cannot be:

- News articles without Orthodox Christianity (There may be many topics and
articles of interest to Orthodox Christians, but we only accept those that are
written by Orthodox Christians or otherwise include Orthodox Christianity.)

- Devotional articles of scriptures, hymnography, the lives of saints, canons,
or excerpts from books or lectures, unless they are included in a pertinent
article. (There are several email lists that send out devotional material for
Orthodox Christians and we encourage you to participate in them. However, they
cannot be posted or re-posted here.)

- Discussion (please take questions and comments on the articles posted here to
one of the fine discussion forums on the internet.)

Please encourage your friends and fellow church members to join this list and
contribute to it for the edification of us all.

Now that we have begun this Orthodox Christian News clearinghouse, we hope and
pray for God's blessing upon this venture as we are unworthy servants.

The moderators
Bill Samsonoff
Rev. Fr. John-Brian Paprock

Pray for us!