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Hi all, This just popped up in my YouTube feed, and although I am not personally an Evangelical of the type that Mr. Moore is (I'd like to think all Christians are evangelical in the sense of being ready and willing to share the good news, but "Evangelical" here has a different, more...

I just found this fascinating article from a few weeks ago on the construction of a "second Lalibela" going on in Ethiopia, undertaken by the monk Abu Gebre Meskel Tesema (elsewhere identified more correctly as Aba Gabremesqel Tessema Molla) and two deacons on the slope of a mountain 60 km south...

Hi. Apologies if this is the wrong forum to ask this question (feel free to move this post to the appropriate forum, if so), but I think I'm having a technical issue with CF for the last two days or so. I always keep the forum viewing tab on "Forum List" view out of all the available options...

I suppose with much of the news coming out of Ethiopia these days being on the trouble with Tigray, we're bound to miss some things as laypeople in her sister churches, but I was still shocked to learn yesterday that about a month ago, a bishop within the EOTC in the Oromia region of Ethiopia...

I have not been able to find a good quality video from the Orthodox Tewahedo celebration of the Nativity (Genna) this year, even after waiting a day to deal with any lag in uploading, but I did just find this very interesting explanation of it on the YouTube channel "Connect Africa", which...

Christ is born and revealed!

CHRIST IS BORN in Bethlehem according to the prophetic sayings! Here is the worship offered in Egypt, in the Cathedral of the Nativity in Egypt's New Administrative Capital:

A fascinating talk on the place of icons in the Syriac tradition by Dr. Michael Wingert of Fuller Theological Seminary. The good doctor goes into several points that I have long wondered about the concerning the Syrians (and often the Armenians), such as their seeming preference for illustrated...

A timely and pointed talk on the challenges of growing as a Church in western culture from a Coptic Orthodox perspective:

I was kind of hoping this might be addressed by someone else already, but I haven't seen it yet, so while we're commenting on what we (would) like or not like, would whoever is in charge of such things be open to moving the "Traditional Theology" subforum up one 'level' within the structure of...

"Some people say 'We just speak about spiritual subjects'. But actually there is no difference between spiritual subjects and theological subjects... We ought not to be deceived by all the calls for unity. All of us would like to be one, but on which basis?" - H.E. Metropolitan Serapion of...

Here is a fascinating talk on the Armenian legacy in India (specifically Calcutta and Bombay) by researchers Sifra Lentin Alakananda Nag, given at Gateway House in Mumbai (Bombay), the very building where Armenian-descended Indian singing star Gohar Jaan (the first to record onto disc in the...

HG Bishop Youssef of the Southern U.S. diocese of the Coptic Orthodox Church greets HH Moran Mor Baselios Marthoma Matthews III, patriarch of the Malankara Orthodox Church, on HH's first visit to the United States at St. Thomas Indian Orthodox Cathedral in Houston, TX., September 20, 2022:

Sad news from Egypt as reported by the organization Press Without Borders, originally in Arabic (automated translation courtesy of FB): Egypt - Urgent directive from President Sisi regarding church fire in Giza President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi said he is closely following the developments of the...

Hi everybody, I'm not sure if I've chosen the right subforum for this since it's not the type of thing I'd normally post about, but I figured I'd try it out anyway. I'm looking to replace a recently broken Breville BOV845BSS model toaster oven. I've looked up how to fix it, and unfortunately...

I have no idea why this is only coming up now (the events described in the story itself occurred in April), but the pan-Syriac group I am a part of on FB just posted about the discovery of various saints' relics in the now-destroyed Church of St. Thomas (Mar Toma) in ISIS-occupied Iraq. It says...

Christ is born! Merry Christmas to all here on OBOB! I truly hope that you are all having beautiful, restorative, and humbling celebrations of our Lord, God, and Savior Jesus Christ's glorious birth with members of your own families and communities at this time of year. May the light of the...

Syrian-Swedish Syriac singer Faya Younan performed a medley consisting of a Syriac song and an Arabic song in Algerian dialect during a concert held in the city of Alala in Saudi Arabia recently, in a winter concert held in Miraya Theater on November 19th: I'm not entirely sure, but this was...

In this video, Deacon Gorgorios Dejene of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church gives a perspective on how to pray as we should. I hope any viewers or listeners will find it edifying.