How to explain to superstitious people that various signs have nothing to do with the Orthodox holiday?
The site www.pravmir.ru explains in a series of interviews of Oksana Golovko with Orthodox clergymen.
For some, the essence...
Author: Joseph, Metropolitan of the USA, Canada and Australia,
Bulgarian Orthodox Church – Bulgarian Patriarchate
On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the death
of Metropolitan Andrey of New York - August 9, 1972
A popular...
Globalization - the involvement of the peoples and states of the Earth in common economic, cultural, information, political processes - has become the main distinguishing feature of the new era. People clearly, as never...
On August 5, in the Vatican, Pope Francis met with Volokolamsk Metropolitan Antony, Chairman of the Department of Foreign Affairs of the Moscow Patriarchate. This is the first personal meeting with a representative of...
"For life is more than food, and the body than clothing"
Gospel according to Luke chapter 12, verse 23
"Wellness" is an active process through which people understand and choose a better way of life; as...
Christianity exerts a political influence over a considerable part of humanity, affecting in a special way more than a quarter of the population of the earth. The history of the relationship between Christianity and...
By Prof. George Mantzaridis, Prof. Emeritus, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Christians have a general awareness of the need for the Church's participation in examining and solving social problems. This is natural, because the goal...
Author: St. Nikolay Kavasilas
Word one: Life in Christ is realized through the sacraments of divine baptism, holy anointing and communion
36. Since before the Cross it was impossible to find forgiveness of sins and deliverance...
Author: St. Gregory the Theologian
Reading the lower lines, one can hardly imagine that centuries separate us from the author. Some readers might exclaim, “Well, so nothing new under the sun! There have always been...
"Woe to you, because you shut up the kingdom of heaven from men" (Matt. 23:13). This is said to the bishops, who neither themselves teach the people the way of salvation, nor urge the...
The work of St. Gregory the Theologian For myself and for the bishops is one of the most censored patristic works, although it was created in the so-called "Golden Age" of the Orthodox Church...
Author: St. Nikolay Kavasilas
Word one: Life in Christ is realized through the sacraments of divine baptism, holy anointing and communion
1. The life in Christ is planted in this present life , begins here and...
Eunomians - 1. Against those who are so skilled in speeches is my word. And to begin from the Scripture: "I am against thee, O pride" (Jer. 50:31) - in teaching, in hearing and...
At the beginning of September, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, Archbishop Hieronymus of Athens and Metropolitan Epiphanius (Dumenko) of Kyiv, head of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Ukraine, will celebrate together the feast of the...
A huge fire broke out between two monasteries at the monastic state of Mount Athos in Greece.
One of the most valuable monasteries of Athos - the Docheiariou monastery (Greek: Μονή Δοχειαρίου) , which has a very valuable library with hundreds of...
Interview with priest Georgiy Chistyakov
A conversation about spiritual mentorship with Father Georgi Chistyakov (August 4, 1953 - June 22, 2007) — priest, philologist, historian, human rights defender. He is considered a follower of Prot....
Written by Protodeacon Andrey Kuraev
When we compare the first century of Christian history even with the fourth, we cannot help but note the magnitude of the spiritual catastrophe of the Christian project as such.
The...
Author: Epiphanius Metropolitan of Kyiv and all Ukraine
The idea of the "Russian World" is a heresy, and Moscow Patriarch Kirill has adopted a pagan and anti-Orthodox imperialist and nationalist ideology, which is why he...
In a statement on July 3, Metropolitan John of Belgorod became the first Russian hierarch to say that Ukraine is at war and called for the bloodshed there to stop and "swords to be...
Orthodoxy and Statehood - Policy Report of the Head of the Holy International Synaxis of the True Orthodox Churches, the Head of True-Orthodox Church in Russia, His Holiness Metropolitan Seraphim
It is well known that...
An unprecedented protest by the Orthodox bishops in the USA against the decision of Archbishop Elpidophorus (Ecumenical Patriarchate) led to the suspension of the episcopal ordination of archimandrite Alexander (Bèlya) of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad.
The 8-storey hotel will be located in the Paphos area, on beach plots owned by the Archdiocese
The Church of Cyprus will invest 100 million euros in a luxury 5-star hotel on the beach on...
On July 7, American Archbishop Elpidophorus (Ecumenical Patriarchate) baptized the children of the homosexual gay couple of Norwegian fashion designer Peter Dundas and his Greek partner Evangelis Bousis at the Church of St. Theotokos...
Patristics as Orthodox self-identity
Whether by coincidence or as a trend, in recent times Orthodox patristic studies have shown an increased interest in the nature of patristics - as such, as well as in the...
You are the crown of virginity, You are the Virgin Mother! And who among the people is able to adequately praise the all-singing Mary? O miracle! She is both the Mother and the Virgin!...