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The Ecumenical Patriarchate officially accepted the Church in Northern Macedonia

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew celebrated a festive evening on June 9 at the Patriarchal Monastery "Living Source" for the feast of St. Apostle Bartholomew (June 11), when the patriarch also celebrates his name day. The...

Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeev) has been relieved of his ecclesiastical positions, will lead the Hungarian diocese

It is noteworthy that Metropolitan. Hilarion (Alfeev) was released without "expressing gratitude for the work done", which in the bureaucratic language of the Moscow Patriarchate means that the change of position is penalty.

Killed and wounded monks and laity in the Svyatogorsk Lavra in Donetsk

On May 30 in the Svyatogorsk Lavra "St. Assumption of the Virgin "killed two monks and a nun. The bombs fell on the third and fourth monastic corps, the UOC reported. The victims are...

Orthodox saint from Bulgaria in the List of significant anniversaries of UNESCO for 2022

The 300th anniversary of the birth of Paisii Hilendarski was included in the List of significant anniversaries of UNESCO for the period 2022-2023. This happened at the suggestion of the National Commission of Bulgaria...

Orthodoxy in Ukraine: war and another autocephaly

Author: Sergey Chapnin War changes many things, first of all - the consciousness of the people, but also the habitual course of time. What takes years and even decades in peacetime takes months or even...

The decisions of the Kiev Council have a pastoral character

Author: Sergey Bortnik Sergey Bortnik, a professor at the Kyiv Theological Academy and an employee of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church's Department of External Relations, spoke about the motives of the Kyiv council to declare independence...

First Ukrainian diocese passes to Moscow Patriarchate

The first Ukrainian diocese in the Russian-occupied areas left the UOC and came directly under the jurisdiction of the Moscow Patriarchate. This is the Diocese of Rivne and Sverdlovsk in the southern part of...

Love is a reflection on God

The brother asked the old man, "What good deed should I do and live with him?" Abba replied, "Are not all works equal? Elijah loved silence — and God was with him; David was...

From Ukraine to Africa

On December 29, the Moscow Patriarchate announced a surprising decision - for the first time in its history, it formed a patriarchal exarchate in Africa. Formally, this is done through the admission of "one...

Globalization and the Orthodox Church

In the light of God's Revelation This publication is a continuation and an attempt to look back at the issues raised about ten years ago in a report entitled "Globalization of the World and the...

Fundamentals of Orthodox anthropology

Author: Fr. Vasily Zenkovsky As an example of how Orthodox anthropology differs from that of Western denominations, the different attitudes towards the native language in different denominations can serve us. Linguistic equality has been established...

A Catholic archbishop has “banned” Nancy Pelosi’s Holy Communion because of the abortion campaign

Salvatore Cordilleone's decision comes after information leaked about a draft opinion of the US Supreme Court U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will no longer be able to take communion because she supports the right to...

Was St. Meletius of Antioch ordained by Arians?

Author: Bishop Sylvester of Belgorod For an episode in church history In the context of the controversy over the way in which the Church has received persons ordained in schismatic communities, references to various historical precedents...

Pope Francis praises the Russian head of the Old believers for his “attitude of peace”

On May 7, Russian head of the Worldwide Union of Old Believers (Old believers are Eastern Orthodox Christians who maintain the liturgical and ritual practices of the Russian Orthodox Church as they were before...

Serbian Patriarch Porphyry: God looked at us and had mercy on us

Archbishop Stefan and Patriarch Porphyry, together with bishops of the Macedonian Orthodox Church - the Ohrid Archbishopric and the Serbian Orthodox Church, celebrated a liturgy of reconciliation today at the St. Sava Church in...

President of Bulgaria visited the Bulgarian church communities in Germany

During his three-day visit to the Republic of Germany, the President of the Republic of Bulgaria Rumen Radev also visited the Bulgarian Orthodox church communities in the cities of Berlin and Hamburg, Velina Weber...

The myth of the Third Rome became a means of reviving the Cold War

Author: His Eminence Messenian Metropolitan Chrysostom Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the Moscow Patriarchate's stubborn refusal to recognize the canonical autocephaly of the Ukrainian Church are two sides of the same coin - Russian-Moscow imperialism,...

The Serbian Church accepts the Macedonian Orthodox Church in canonical and liturgical communion

The Council of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church restored the liturgical and canonical communion with the Macedonian Orthodox Church - Ohrid Archbishopric. According to the decision, the reasons for the interruption of communication...

The Christian faith in the resurrection

For the unbelieving consciousness, the idea of resurrection is absurd. From this point of view, the faith of Christians is even more absurd. The case of the speech of St. Paul the Apostle in...

One hundred years – restoration of the Serbian Patriarchate

The celebration of the centenary of the restoration of the Serbian Patriarchate is taking place on 14 and 15 May 2022 in Sremski Karlovci. The celebration began on Saturday, May 14, 2022, in the cathedral...

Patriarchate of Alexandria: To protect the temples from the “robberies of the Russian Church”

Patriarch Theodore of Alexandria sent a circular message to the bishops of the Patriarchate of Alexandria, instructing him on how to approach the problems posed by the "illegal and vindictive invasion of the Russian Church

Where is the center of hell? Or the trends in Russian thought “Kill, kill and kill”?

Alexander Dugin, the same one who in 2014, in connection with the invasion of the Russian army in the Crimea and Donbass, spoke to students: "Kill, kill and kill. There should be no more talk. As a professor, I think so."

Why the Church is against magic (2)

The real miracle workers On the contrary, in church healings there are no "black boxes" with incomprehensible content. For, here everything is openly said: Lord, come and heal the sick person, if this is in...

Mehmed Ali Agca shot John Paul II 41 years ago

On May 13, 1981, in St. Peter's Square in the Vatican, thousands trembled in anticipation of seeing Pope John Paul II. Instead of a holiday, however, the meeting with the pope turns into a real...

Why the Church is against magic (1)

The following letter has arrived in the editorial office of the Russian Orthodox magazine Foma (named after St. Thomas the Apostle): Tell me why the Church forbids magic after it works? I recently heard a...
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