Trip to and Service in Romania

 

This August my wife and I had the privilege of spending 16 days in Romania. I was invited to participate in a SOROS-sponsored program organized by SACRI (Societatea Academica pentru Cercetare a Religiilor si Ideologiior). It is a three-year program ...

Georgia and Armenia 2004

 

In the late spring of 2004 I had the opportunity to spend two weeks each in the Republics of Armenia and Georgia. The primary purpose for my visit to Armenia was to instruct a group of librarian-catalogers in some points of online cataloging; while my primary purpose in Georgia was to collect religious periodical literature. I was also on the lookout for religious material in Armenia. In both countries I was based in the capital city, Yerevan in Armenia and Tbilisi in Georgia, but also had opportunities to visit religious sites outside of the cities. Nerses Hayrapetyan, President of the Armenian Librarians' Union, knew of my interest in church history and arranged for visits to important sites. In Georgia ...

CAREE 2005 Conference Schedule

 

CAREE CONFERENCE Friday, November 18, 9:30 a.m. – 8:30 p.m. Location: Washington A, Loews Philadelphia Hotel

“Quo Vadis Eastern Europe?” Sponsored by AAR and Christians Associated for Relationships with Eastern Europe schedule

 

This session was put on by CAREE as part of the AAR conference and was held in the conference’s first time slot – Saturday, November 19, from 9:00-11:30 a.m. It was held in the Convention Center, Room 113 B. The session was identified as A19-9 in the AAR program (p. 133). CAREE’s session was one of the “Special Topics Forums.” The following is the description that was found in the AAR conference program.

Report on Visit to Macedonia

 

We, Paul Mojzes and Leonard Swidler, met with the “Council for Interreligious Cooperation in Macedonia,” which is made up of representatives of the five major religious communities of Macedonia - Orthodox Christianity, Islam, Catholicism, Protestantism, and Judaism - to learn of their activities in the past year and to discuss with them their future work in which IIID could be of help. Those present were ...

Exploring History in Macedonia

 

As one member of the delegation that went to Macedonia in October, I was glad to have the chance to explore some of the rich history of the land. As a Protestant scholar, it was, of course, a great privilege and honor to be asked by the Orthodox Theological Faculty to present a paper to the faculty and students of the seminary. My paper was entitled, “Advice from St. Maximos Confessor {D09} for Contemporary Macedonians.” It had already been translated into Macedonian and, after some preliminary comments from me, my good friend Professor Ratomir Grozdanoski read the Macedonian translation {B15} to the assembly ...

Return to Macedonia

 

CAREE was one of the sponsoring organizations for the International Scholars’ Annual Trialogue [ISAT] held in Skopje, Macedonia, May 10-14, 2002, at the invitation of the President of Macedonia, Boris Trajkovski. The president of CAREE, Paul Mojzes, is one of the coordinators of ISAT; Leonard Swidler is the other. Jim Payton, CAREE’s executive secretary, participated in the conference. President Trajkovski hoped that the ISAT conference would help ward off civil war in Macedonia and assist in the promotion of civil society in the nation. The meeting made an effective contribution in that regard, as evidenced by the three main commitments made at the end of the conference ...