By Saint Innocent (Veniaminov), Metropolitan of Moscow To leave one’s homeland and go to remote, wild places, deprived of many of the comforts of life, in order to convert people…
By Martin Hoegger* Rome, 27 March 2025. The second day of the Focolare Ecumenical Congress consisted of a pilgrimage in the footsteps of the first Christians who gave their lives…
Author: John (Shakhovsky), archbishop of San Francisco It is wrong to think that all Orthodox are not in reality sectarians, just as it is wrong to think that all sectarians…
Author: John (Shakhovsky), archbishop of San Francisco Humanity knows its great figures and remembers the great criminals in its history. The lives of both are equally instructive and instructive. The…
Author: John (Shakhovsky), archbishop of San Francisco 1 The wonderful lies on the grounds of everything and the last boundaries of all things. It is contained in creation and constitutes…
Author: Ivan Dimitrov Very often people prepare a will, with which they express their last will on certain issues – ideological, spiritual, material. This is also done by many of…
By Martin Hoegger* At the opening of the Focolare Movement’s congress (Castel Gandolfo, Rome, 26 March 2025), a question was raised: why should we still be concerned about Christian unity…
The Russia-Ukraine conflict and Israel’s war on the terrorist group Hamas and various other extremist groups have distracted the attention from conflicts in the Indo-Mediterranean. In Afghanistan the Taliban has completely taken over the country and has launched a diplomatic offensive to gain international acceptance. However, they have disenfranchised the female population banning women from working and studying. Female Afghan citizens find themselves locked in their houses, at the mercy of a regime which gives them no rights, not to mention religious minorities who have left the country.
Author: Archbishop John (Shakhovskoy) Good Shepherding These are, first of all, “ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for those who will inherit salvation” (Heb. 1:14). The Lord makes “his angels…
Author: Hieromartyr Hilarion (Troitsky), Archbishop of Vereya 2. PROPHECY Old Testament prophecy was the greatest phenomenon of the Old Testament religion, the main nerve of the religious life of the…