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Does the Armenian Patriarch Have an Illegitimate Child?

Every morning for the past ten days, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has started his day with a post on social media about whether Catholicos-Patriarch Karekin II has an illegitimate…

18 June 2025 · 5 min read

Christianity

The First Christians in Antioch

By prof. A.P. Lopukhin Acts of the Apostles, Chapter 11. The discontent of the believers in Jerusalem against Peter because of his association with the uncircumcised and the appeasement of…

4 June 2025 · 14 min read

Christianity

The Council of Nicaea – 1700 years

By Fr. George Florovsky Nicaea was the city chosen to host the First Ecumenical Council. Constantinople was officially proclaimed only in 330, and at the time of the convocation of…

4 June 2025 · 21 min read

Christianity

The Apostolic Council in Jerusalem

By prof. A.P. Lopukhin Acts. 15:1. And certain men, which came down from Judea, taught the brethren, Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved.…

4 June 2025 · 22 min read

Christianity

The Speech of the Apostle Paul at the Areopagus in Athens

By prof. A.P. Lopukhin Acts 17:1. Having passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue. Amphipolis is an Athenian colony, at that time…

4 June 2025 · 20 min read

Christianity

Paul and Silas in Prison

By prof. A.P. Lopukhin Acts of the Apostles, chapter 16. Paul in Lystra, Derbe, and Troas (vv. 1–8), The Vision of the Macedonian and the Journey to Macedonia (vv. 9–11),…

4 June 2025 · 20 min read