Christmas Eve will soon be here.

That afternoon, we hope to deliver $100 each to 50 homeless men and women—some of them having a dog or two with them—who spend our frigid Canadian nights out of doors and don’t know how they’re going to eat from day to day.

For reasons unknown to us and none of our business anyway, they don’t make it into the shelters or the soup kitchens.

It is especially disheartening to them to see the well-dressed and the well-fed hurrying by on their way to church, to a family dinner, to a pricey restaurant, to a party…while they go hungry on Christmas Eve.

Can you fit $5, $10, $50, $100, $500 to feed the hungry into your Christmas budget this year?

In past years, several thousands of readers have seen our Feed the Homeless on Christmas appeal over the course of the Nativity Fast, yet only three or four dozen responded. Can you help this year?

Please help us help.

To contribute to Orthodoxy in Dialogue’s 3rd Annual Feed the Homeless on Christmas Campaign send your contribution via PayPal using editors@orthodoxyindialogue.com as the recipient.

Because of GoFundMe’s mishandling of our account we will accept donations until December 31 via PayPal.

Funds will be distributed as they come in between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve.

Whatever Russia’s so-called “Union of Orthodox Journalists” (Союз Православных Журналистов) has on offer, it’s clearly not journalism.

Orthodoxy in Dialogue has followed UOJ’s “reporting” closely over the past two years. So far as we can tell, it serves as little more than one of the two arms of the Moscow Patriarchate’s disinformation apparatus—the other being the Department for External Church Relations under the chairmanship of Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeyev) of Volokolamsk.

UOJ’s “reporting” on the Moscow Patriarchate is unfailingly glowing; on the Ecumenical Patriarchate, unfailingly disparaging—and often borderline mendacious; and on the autocephalous Orthodox Church of Ukraine, unfailingly as “heretics” and “schismatics.”  

This isn’t how journalism works. This is propaganda, plain and simple. Read More