Everyone go LIKE and SHARE this post on your Instagram story feed. It's important to get the word out, Elpidophoros needs to be deposed - being pro-abortion is UNACCEPTABLE! 👇🏻👇🏻

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If enough people start switching jurisdictions and GOARCH as a consequence begins to sink below the other Orthodox churches in America in terms of attendance and general influence then they might start to listen to our demands. At the very least, it would be wise to withdraw your donations.

Even if GOARCH doesn't care about defending the True Faith, they don't want to lose their geopolitical influence or their tight grip on the Greek American diaspora. Nor do they want to lose their funding.

Of course, if you have a faithful and traditional priest in GOARCH then ignore this advice. Same for those living in an area where there's no other parishes in close proximity. But everyone else needs to start heading for the exit door and find an Orthodox jurisdiction which doesn't tolerate leadership which supports genociding unborn babies.

If you stay or leave, you should let your priest know so he can relay the feedback.

“Father, after what the Archbishop said, I can no longer remain in GOARCH in good conscience”

Or

“Father, although the Archbishop’s words made me consider leaving GOARCH, I am staying for [enter reason], but I will no longer be contributing money to any activity outside this parish”

This is important if we want a response.

I don't like to encourage jurisdiction-switching, but I think it is appropriate here. GOARCH has made it clear that it considers itself immune to public outcry against the un-Orthodox behavior of its leadership, and this won't change until enough people vote with their feet that it can no longer claim with any credibility to be the face of American Orthodoxy.

🇲🇪 Montenegrin Metropolis of the Serbian Orthodox Church: We won’t support the return of godless power

— "The Montenegin-Littoral Metropolis of the Serbian Orthodox Church stated that it does not participate in the political processes for the formation of a new government in Montenegro but will not support the return to power of representatives of the godless regime of President Milo Đukanović, who restricted the religious rights and freedoms of the canonical Church, reports the Metropolis on its official website.

With its statement, the Montenegrin-Littoral Metropolis denied the rumours spread in the country about the alleged support of Metropolitan Ioanniky for the formation of a minority government headed by Deputy Prime Minister Dritan Abazović. At the same time, it is noted that the hierarch of the Serbian Church appreciates the victory in the 2020 elections over the godless regime."

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🇺🇸 South Carolina Senate Panel Passes Bill to Ban All Abortions
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🇷🇺🇪🇬 100+ antimins signed for African priests of Russian Exarchate

— "Priests of the Russian Church’s African Exarchate will soon receive the antimins that they need to serve the Divine Liturgy as clerics of the Moscow Patriarchate.

The African Exarchate, consisting of two dioceses covering the whole of Africa, was announced on December 29 by the Russian Holy Synod, beginning with 102 African priests who had petitioned to be received into the Moscow Patriarchate.

In an interview given earlier this week, Metropolitan Leonid of Klin, the Russian Patriarchal Exarch of Africa, announced that the number of priests has grown to 150."

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🇦🇱 Alexandrian hierarch accuses head of Albanian Church of blasphemy, Abp. Anastasios stands his ground

— "In his report to the Holy Synod of the Alexandrian Patriarchate on the issue of the Russian Exarchate in Africa, Metropolitan Gregory of Cameroon takes aim at His Beatitude Archbishop Anastasios of Albania, who he accuses of blasphemy.

The head of the Albanian Church is standing his ground however, stating simply that his stance on the Ukrainian crisis and related matters has been well known since 2019 and hasn’t changed.

Abp. Anastasios, who doesn’t recognize the so-called “Orthodox Church of Ukraine,” has continually emphasized the need for a pan-Orthodox council. And on January 8, in the wake of the creation of the Russian Exarchate in Africa, he issued another statement reemphasizing the urgent need for a council, given that the schism is expanding, as he correctly predicted it would several years ago."

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🇷🇺 Metropolitan Evgeny of Ekaterinburg: QR codes make a quasi-religion

— "The head of the Ekaterinburg Metropolis of the Russian Orthodox Church believes that the introduction of QR codes has divided society.

Metropolitan Evgeny of Ekaterinburg and Verkhoturye says that QR codes are being turned into another quasi-religion. At the same time, the "code system", in his opinion, may remain even after the pandemic has been overcome.

"I am not a scientist. I am a monk and a bishop of the Church of Christ. And as a shepherd I have a duty to speak my mind. We are told that resistance to vaccination has taken the character of occultism. But in the same way, the use of QR codes is based on absolutely religious, not scientific postulates," the archbishop wrote on his Telegram channel."

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🇬🇧🇷🇸 The British decided: Djokovic to defend Wimbledon title

— "The government there has passed a law related to entering the island, according to which unvaccinated people will be able to enter.

From February 11, when the law comes into force, unvaccinated people will be able to enter Great Britain, which means that Novak Djokovic will be able to perform at Wimbledon.

"We will cancel all coronavirus tests on fully vaccinated individuals arriving in England from February 11 onwards. For those arriving in England but not vaccinated, they will have to undergo a PCR test before entering and two days after arrival. All passengers will still have to fill out the necessary forms", explained Grant Shapps, Secretary of State for Transport."

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🇷🇸 Novak Djokovic and his family took communion today in the Church of St. Sava in Belgrade.

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🇦🇱 Alexandrian hierarch accuses head of Albanian Church of blasphemy, Abp. Anastasios stands his ground
🇷🇺 Metropolitan Evgeny of Ekaterinburg: QR codes make a quasi-religion
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🇺🇸 Indiana House Passes Bill to Stop Coercing Women Into Abortions, Amazingly 18 Legislators Voted Against It
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🇵🇱🇺🇦 Polish Church addresses Phanar over OCU actions

— "The Polish Orthodox Church has turned to the Patriarchate of Constantinople for clarification regarding the visit to Poland of the former Metropolitan of the UOC, and now the “Metropolitan” of the OCU, Alexander Drabinko, writes the “Religiina Pravda” (“Religious Truth”).

In December 2021, Drabinko met with the Consul General of Ukraine to Krakow Viacheslav Voinarovsky. Sources in the OCU told the “Religiina Pravda” that there could be no grounds for claims since Alexander Drabinko came to Poland as a private person.

However, at the meeting between the consul and the “metropolitan”, according to the official statement, “the provision of the spiritual, cultural and educational needs of the large Ukrainian community in Poland” was discussed. The desire of the OCU representatives to “provide for spiritual needs” in the canonical territory of the Polish Orthodox Church may be a cause for concern."

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🇺🇸 Pro-life society responds to GOARCH March for Life speech and tweets

— "Given the remarks of Archbishop Elpidophoros of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America at the national March for Life in Washington, D.C., last week and the comments retweeted by the GOARCH press office, Orthodox Christians Pro-Life issued a statement yesterday on the Orthodox Church’s stance against abortion.

In its statement, Orthodox Christians Pro-Life expresses its support for the Orthodox Church in America, “which continues to maintain the pro-life position,” and calls for GOARCH clergy to clarify the issue."

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For anyone having paid attention to the abortion debates over the past 40 years, what the Archbishop is saying is crystal clear. It is yet another version of “personally opposed to abortion” but “support a women’s right to choose.” If the Archbishop had been completely honest, he would have expressed himself thusly, “As a Christian, I am personally morally opposed to abortion. We should take steps to help women and children through social programs and, hopefully, that will reduce demand for abortions. But we can’t coerce women into childbearing against their wills. We must trust women to make their own decisions and we must respect their bodily autonomy.”
https://orthodoxreflections.com/more-progressive-indoctrination-from-archbishop-elpidophoros/

🇧🇾 Lukashenko: We’re brothers with Russia and Ukraine, from one baptismal font

— "On January 28, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said, addressing the Belarusian Parliament, that the West is pitting the Slavic peoples against each other. He also repeated that Ukraine should certainly return to the "fold of our Slavdom", reports RIA Novosti.

According to Lukashenko, Ukraine has become the object of behind-the-scenes trade-off.

"Ukrainians are pushed into the flames of conflict, their consciousness is broken, they are purposefully prepared for aggression. They are shaping a hostile attitude towards fraternal nations, including the Belarusians," he said in an address to the Parliament."

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God bless Canadian truckers 🇨🇦💪🏻