Christianity
Author: D.S. Biryukov Arianism is the first current in the mainstream of Christian thought, recognized as heresy and became the state religion in the Roman Empire. Arianism is undeniably the…
Christianity
It is hard to imagine that it was in Mariupol land about two centuries ago that a man lived whose personality both his contemporaries and descendants compared with the personality…
Christianity
John (Maximovitch) the Wonderworker (1896–1966) was a prominent Eastern Orthodox ascetic and hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (ROCOR) who was active in the mid-20th century. He was a pastor and spiritual father…
Christianity
The All-Seeing Eye of God is a symbolic and allegorical composition based on the words of Scripture about the vigilant all-seeing and all-knowing Christ From the end of the 18th…
Archeology
Nessebar, Bulgaria 24 Apr. 2022. Author: BLITZ Modern photographic computer technology is applied in Bulgaria at a limited number of sites Almost 360 drawings of ships on the walls of…
Christianity
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew congratulated Orthodox Christians on Easter and called for an immediate end to the war, "which undermines human dignity and is a provocative violation of God's commandment to…
Christianity
The red egg is the most recognizable symbol of the great Christian holiday of Easter. According to legend, Mary Magdalene laid eggs on Emperor Tiberius and told him about the…
Christianity
The Bulgarian Orthodox website dveri.bg has launched a column "Not from the Gospel", in which it publishes excerpts from sermons, speeches or texts of Russian priests and representatives of the…
Christianity
In a resolution on 7 April 2022 about the increasing repression in Russia, including the case of Alexei Navalny, the European Parliament condemned the role of Moscow Patriarch Kirill in Russia’s war against Ukraine.
Christianity
Broke tradition = sinned? “Tradition is the transmission of fire, not the worship of ashes,” wrote Gustav Mahler. What is tradition in church life? Which traditions are obligatory for a…
