Last-minute politics overshadow historic pan-Orthodox council

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PARIS (RNS) A religious summit last held more than 1,200 years ago suddenly risks being downgraded or postponed because of Syria’s four-year civil war. This unexpected twist has come as the world’s Orthodox churches, the second-largest ecclesial family in Christianity, were supposed to be only months away from their first major council since 787.
Now it is no longer clear when or where the Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church, a summit first proposed at least as far back as 1961 and provisionally scheduled for May in Istanbul, will be held.
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If the Council had been in the tentative, proposal stage since 1961, I wonder what the issues were at that time, and if those same issues are relevant now. If Russia (Church or Kremlin) has a veto over anything the Council can do, it is hard to see what positive things can come from it. This is the classic dilemma, if everything is decided by consensus, who determines when “consensus” has been reached?
 
Isn’t Istanbul? Long time gone, was Constantinople. Why did Constantinople get the works?

Well, Even Old New York was once New Amsterdam. Why they changed, I can.t say. People just liked it better that way?

youtube.com/watch?v=7sl4XCVmoXg
 
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Isn’t Istanbul? Long time gone, was Constantinople. Why did Constantinople get the works?

Well, Even Old New York was once New Amsterdam. Why they changed, I can.t say. People just liked it better that way?

youtube.com/watch?v=7sl4XCVmoXg
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Well, New Amsterdam was built by the Dutch, the the English took over and preferred to rename it after an English city. 😃
 
No, the English named it after the Duke of York, not the city.

DON’T TANGO WITH ME!:mad:

hahaha, just kidding. 😉

But, not about the fact, that’s true. James II, Duke of York. 😛
 
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No, the English named it after the Duke of York, not the city.

DON’T TANGO WITH ME!:mad:

hahaha, just kidding. 😉

But, not about the fact, that’s true. James II, Duke of York. 😛
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It may have been named in his honour, but it still refers to the city…otherwise it wouldn’t be NEW York (as in there’s Old York back in England).
 
PARIS (RNS) A religious summit last held more than 1,200 years ago suddenly risks being downgraded or postponed because of Syria’s four-year civil war. This unexpected twist has come as the world’s Orthodox churches, the second-largest ecclesial family in Christianity, were supposed to be only months away from their first major council since 787.
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The highlighted portion is not so much journalism as it is hype.
 
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