Shinshi (Fukushima Prefecture. Tōhoku region)
Kamaishi (Iwate Prefecture. Tōhoku region)
Yamamoto (Miyagi Prefecture. Tōhoku region)
Oshima (Tōhoku region)
Sendai (Miyagi Prefecture. Tōhoku region)
Rikuzentakata (Iwate Prefecture. Tōhoku region)
Yamamoto (Miyagi Prefecture. Tōhoku region)
Minamisanriku (Miyagi Prefecture. Tōhoku region)
Yamamoto (Miyagi Prefecture. Tōhoku region)
We shouldn’t be putting up anonymous posts on internet forums, according to Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin, the head of the MP Department for Church and Society Relations. “Isn’t it high time that we gave up this silly anonymity on the Internet? In the ‘real world’, people usually don’t find anonymous information credible. If I were trying to communicate with you, if I wore a mask, if I used a pseudonym to hide my real name, you’d have every reason not to trust me”, he said at a meeting with representatives of the American Israel Public Relations Committee on Tuesday. In his view, society has rules, “which we’ve come to through trial and error, which give structure to, and lay down, certain rules of behaviour. Is it necessary to establish new rules of conduct for ‘virtual space’, at least at the level of determining which people are worthy of credence and who isn’t? I don’t have a ready answer to this question, but it’s worth our serious consideration”, Fr Vsevolod said. He pointed up that contemporary Russia has a “serious problem with the proliferation of anti-Semitism, Russophobia, bias against people from the Caucasus, and hate directed against immigrants from Central Asia. All this provocation is fraught with the risk of interethnic conflict, and the most aggressive statements insulting human dignity due to nationality is disseminated over the internet”, he said.
5 April 2011
Interfax-Religion
http://www.interfax-religion.ru/?act=news&div=40193
Editor’s Note:
I sign all of my original posts… and I attach my image, as well (comments, such as this is, bear my initials at the end, admitting authorship). Long ago, I received the advice that such a course was the only true and honourable position… any decent person sees that, I’m sure. It DOES lay one open to attack… certainly, that’s true. Them’s the breaks… you tell the truth… you tell it in its fullness (even if you have to use a flamethrower… thank you, again, “P”). Then…
YOU SIGN YOUR NAME OR PUT YOUR INITIALS DOWN.
Any other course is that of a punk coward… full stop. I think that “Charlie” and I see eye to eye on this, at least. Pass me the jug, Vsevolod Anatolyevich, and take a snort yourself… it’s Rowan’s Creek, honest and smooth Kentucky bourbon, good for what ails ya and guaranteed to put a smile on your face.
BMD
Icon of Our Saviour of Chernobyl
The Donetsk branch of the Chernobyl Union of the Ukraine (Союз Чернобыль Украины) gave an icon of Our Saviour of Chernobyl to a Japanese school. At a ceremony at the National Opera and Ballet Theatre, Yevgeni Struzhko handed over the holy image to Terada Metiko, the Director of the Terada Ballet Art School, the official website of the UOC/MP reported on Tuesday. When the accident occurred at the Chernobyl NPP, Terada Mikito came to the Ukraine on a tour with his ballet company, not fearing the consequences of the reactor disaster. “Today, we wanted to join together with the Japanese people who’re affected by this tragedy… this is something very close to us. Therefore, we’d like you to display this icon at one of the Orthodox parishes in Japan”, Mr Struzhko said. The icon not only shows Christ, the Mother of God, and Archangel St Michael, it also depicts the emergency personnel and victims involved in the Chernobyl disaster.
5 April 2011
Interfax-Religion
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