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Forbidden Christmas in England in 1647
In 1647, the Puritans' attempts to ban Christmas and force shops to open on Christmas day lead to rioting in Ipswich, Oxford, Ealing and Canterbury where a wild game of…
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Does the holiday decoration touch our hearts, enlighten our minds?
The decoration is just a form, a game, an attempt to get back the lost… Otherwise it is placed with hope; the hope is that it, the external festivity, will…
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Metropolitan Hilarion on Unification of the Orthodox and the Catholics
In the beginning of December, Pope Francis of Rome, during his meeting with Archbishop Jeronymos II of Athens and All Greece, uttered the words, which many perceived as apologies to…
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With the idea of renaming Christmas by EU because of migrants, the pope called it a “dictatorship”
The European Commission has published a guideline proposing to replace "Christmas" with "holiday season" to draw attention to other religious communities. There was a violent reaction from the Vatican, writes…
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In England and Wales number of Christians falls to half the population, while in US similar pattern shows
Christian believers are showing signs of decline in both the United States and the United Kingdom, but in England and Wales latest figures from the Office for National Statistics show…
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Interview: Primate of the True Orthodox Bulgarian Church, about his Church. Part two
INTERVIEW: Primate of the True Orthodox Bulgarian Church, Metropolitan Sergius of Messembria (Moiseenko) on the reputation of the TOC, the problems of Synaxis and the "blue lobby". Part two Portal…
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Interview: Primate of the True Orthodox Bulgarian Church, about his Church. Part one
INTERVIEW: Primate of the True Orthodox Bulgarian Church, Metropolitan Sergius of Messembria (Moiseenko) about his Church, its hierarchy and about his "secular" creativity. Portal "Credo.Press": To the International Synaxis of…
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Other Churches will recognize the Autocephalous Church in Ukraine
ECUMENICAL PATRIARCH BARTHOLOMEW OF THE IRON CHURCH: OTHER CHURCHES WILL RECOGNIZE THE AUTOCEPHALOUS CHURCH IN UKRAINE Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew hosted the Sunday Holy Liturgy on December 5, celebrated in the…
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The healing pedagogy of the Saint Man Porphyry Cavsocalivite
Author: PROF. GEORGI KRUSTALAKIS We live in a land of wonders, a land of divine madness, as the old man Porphyry said, and we are too weak to respond appropriately…
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Georgian Patriarchate opposes compulsory vaccination, but also sanctions agitation against vaccines
The Georgian Orthodox Church does not support compulsory vaccination against COVID-19, as everyone should have freedom of choice and this is an inviolable right granted by the Almighty, a new…