26-29.09.2024 - interfaith weekend in Yakoruda, Bulgaria
On the occasion of the United Nations International Day of Peace on 21 September, the association "Bridges - Eastern European Forum for Dialogue" held a three-day interfaith weekend...
On September 16 and 17, the residence of the Coptic Patriarch in the monastery "St. Bishoy', Wadi el-Natrun (i.e. the Nitrian Valley), hosted a meeting of representatives of the Orthodox Churches of the world...
The monastery "Holy Virgin Sumela" rises 1200 meters above sea level.
The majestic building stands menacingly on the edge of the cliffs, its frescoes faded and distorted. The facade shows the deep traces of time...
Amulets were consecrated on September 16 in the main temple of the Russian Armed Forces. They are called "Seals of Purity", contain Psalm 90 and will be sent to the Russian military in Ukraine,...
On the occasion of the Day of Sobriety celebrated in the country today, the Russian Orthodox Church called on mass culture not to promote alcoholism, TASS reported.
The agency recalls that the All-Russian Day of...
More than three hundred Moldovan priests went on a "pilgrimage" to Moscow, with all their expenses covered. The organization of the clergy took place on Viber, and as the sponsor of the entire event,...
By prof. A. P. Lopukhin
Acts of the Apostles, chapter 6. 1 - 6. The first Christian deacons. 7 – 15. St. Archdeacon Stephen.
Acts 6:1. In those days, when the disciples were multiplying, a murmur...
Patriarch Theodore of Alexandria sent a letter to Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and the bishops of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, who are currently gathered in Istanbul.
The Patriarch again calls for support against the anti-canonical actions of...
The Turkish Independent Orthodox Church called Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's address to Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople as "ecumenical" a crime against Turkey's territorial integrity and an "attempted riot" against its constitutional order. She called...
By Prince Evgeny Nikolaevich Trubetskoy
By asserting the unlimited autonomy of subjective religious experience, Berdyaev attacks Fr. Florensky precisely for his aspiration to subordinate this experience to some objective beginning; in other words, for the...
The Tenth International Military-Technical Forum "Army - 2024" held from August 12 to 14 at the "Patriot" Congress and Exhibition Center (Kubinka, Moscow Region).
The event is presented as the world's leading exhibition of armaments...
At the beginning of August, the representative of the Russian Orthodox Church in the Czech Republic, Fr. Nikolay Lishchenyuk was declared persona non grata by the authorities. He has to leave the country within...
A Ukrainian drone struck a monastery in the Kursk region of Russia, Reuters reported on 19.07.2024. A 60-year-old parishioner was killed in the attack, which took place around 08:30 local time.
A Russian channel in...
While Pope Francis calls for global, undivided drug prevention, during the Paris Olympics some ex-priests and some French anti-religious agencies (under investigation by the Court of Accounts), disregarding the common good, criticise the prevention...
By Prince Evgeny Nikolaevich Trubetskoy
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The stamp of the truly religious spirit and, in particular, of the folk-Russian religious genius Fr. Florensky sees "not in the cutting off, but in the transformation of the fullness...
By Prince Evgeny Nikolaevich Trubetskoy
On the occasion of the book by candle. P. A. Florensky "Pillar and Support of Truth" (Moscow: "Put", 1914)
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In the Gospel there is a wonderful image, personifying the unceasing division...
By St. archbishop Seraphim (Sobolev), Sermon delivered in Sofia (Bulgaria) on the Feast of Transfiguration, 6th of August, in 1947.
Liturgical Holy Gospel: At that time Jesus took with Himself Peter, James and John, his...
By prof. A.P. Lopukhin
Acts. 2:26 a.m. Therefore my heart rejoiced, and my tongue rejoiced; and also my flesh shall rest in hope.
Acts. 2:27. Because You will not leave my soul in hell and You...
By prof. A.P. Lopukhin
Chapter 2, Acts of the Apostles. 1 – 4. The first Christian Pentecost and the descent of the Holy Spirit on the apostles. 5 – 13. The astonishment of the people....
By prof. A.P. Lopukhin
Acts of the Apostles, chapter 3. 1 - 11. Saint Peter heals a crippled man from birth. 12 – 26. Speech on this occasion to the people.
Acts. 3:1. Peter and John...
By prof. A.P. Lopukhin
Acts of the Apostles, chapter 4. 1 – 4. The capture of Peter and John and consequences of Peter's speech. 5 – 12. The questioning of the apostles before the Sanhedrin...
By Vasileios Thermos, Psychiatrist, Professor, and Priest of the Church of Greece
At the very beginning, we consider it necessary to make some clarifications. First of all, fundamentalism is not about specific ideas and beliefs....
From there they point out that for more than 2000 years Christianity has been the basis of European civilization. The BOC emphasizes that it has left its indelible mark on all spheres of human...
The Greek police have sent a letter to the Holy Kinotis (the community of representatives of the 20 Athos monasteries that make up the leadership of Mount Athos) asking for assistance in complying with...