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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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
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."
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...
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...
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...
Cardinal Angelo Beccu's unexpected revelation could have serious consequences for the security of the Vatican and the Catholic Church
Pope Francis has allowed up to 1m euros to be spent on the release of a...
The Ecumenical Patriarchate has announced that it is accepting the Macedonian Church into Eucharistic communion
The Macedonian Orthodox Church (MOC) was surprisingly recognized by the Ecumenical Patriarchate as the Ohrid Archbishopric.
A statement from Istanbul said...
Pop singer Madonna would like to talk to Pope Francis about "some important things". The queen of pop tweets inviting the pope to meet her, although her last confession, she said, was a long...
Serbian Bishop Photius announced that talks between the Serbian Orthodox Church and the Macedonian Orthodox Church were held in the city of Nis last weekend, with the participation of Serbian Patriarch Porphyry.
The news of...
Author: Priest John Burdin of the Kostroma Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church, who became the first Russian priest to be tried under the new law on "spreading false information about the special operation...
When Christians in Belarus take responsibility to stand up for justice as individuals as their churches remain silent, they take on consequences for their own lives
A feeling of pain and betrayal of Christ…Since the start of the war, dozens of people have publicly refused to consider themselves children of the Russian Orthodox Church.
The Codex Gigas is the largest illuminated manuscript of the Middle Ages. In addition to religious texts, encyclopedic, medical knowledge, and color illustrations, this book contains an image of the devil on a full...
The icon “Matrona and Stalin” (“Blessed Matrona blesses Joseph Stalin” [) is an icon depicting the Holy Matrona of Moscow (1885-1952) and I.V. Stalin. In 2008, for some time from November 26, she was...
Author: archpriest John Meiendorf
The official condition for church marriage is the union of faith - ie. the affiliation of the spouses to the Orthodox Church. The definitions of the Laodicean (Rule 10 and 31),...
Author: D.S. Biryukov
Arianism is the first current in the mainstream of Christian thought, recognized as heresy and became the state religion in the Roman Empire. Arianism is undeniably the largest and largest of the...
It is hard to imagine that it was in Mariupol land about two centuries ago that a man lived whose personality both his contemporaries and descendants compared with the personality of God's prophet Moses....
John (Maximovitch) the Wonderworker (1896–1966) was a prominent Eastern Orthodox ascetic and hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (ROCOR) who was active in the mid-20th century. He was a pastor and spiritual father of high reputation and...
The All-Seeing Eye of God is a symbolic and allegorical composition based on the words of Scripture about the vigilant all-seeing and all-knowing Christ
From the end of the 18th - the first half of...
Nessebar, Bulgaria 24 Apr. 2022. Author: BLITZ
Modern photographic computer technology is applied in Bulgaria at a limited number of sites
Almost 360 drawings of ships on the walls of four churches in Nessebar have been...