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**WeightWatchyshow** · 10-22-2005, 02:00 AM

Thank you Byron for you post. I have not had the opportunity to visit the school, but your descriptions echo others I have read about, also with regards to the demoralization and dwindling Orthodox community in Constantinople.

My prayer is that European civil authorities and other heads-of-state will make the re-opening of this school and the removal of all the legal barriers and hurdles to Orthodox freedom part of its stringent requirements of entry into the EU. Otherwise, I can't see how Turkey can call itself a secular and free country and thus have any chance at joing the EU.

If such freedom is granted and the school is re-opened, that would very likely bring a Christian renewal into New Rome. What a beautiful triumph of Orthodoxy it would be! I pray this happens in our lifetime.

Glory be to God, and His will be done.

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WeightWatchyshow Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 428 Senior Member	Thank you Byron for you post. I have not had the opportunity to visit the school, but your descriptions echo others I have read about, also with regards to the demoralization and dwindling Orthodox community in Constantinople. My prayer is that European civil authorities and other heads-of-state will make the re-opening of this school and the removal of all the legal barriers and hurdles to Orthodox freedom part of its stringent requirements of entry into the EU. Otherwise, I can't see how Turkey can call itself a secular and free country and thus have any chance at joing the EU. If such freedom is granted and the school is re-opened, that would very likely bring a Christian renewal into New Rome. What a beautiful triumph of Orthodoxy it would be! I pray this happens in our lifetime. Glory be to God, and His will be done.
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