Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew congratulated Orthodox Christians on Easter and called for an immediate end to the war, "which undermines human dignity and is a provocative violation of God's commandment to love one's neighbor."
This year,...
The red egg is the most recognizable symbol of the great Christian holiday of Easter. According to legend, Mary Magdalene laid eggs on Emperor Tiberius and told him about the resurrection of Christ. The...
The Bulgarian Orthodox website dveri.bg has launched a column "Not from the Gospel", in which it publishes excerpts from sermons, speeches or texts of Russian priests and representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church without...
In a resolution on 7 April 2022 about the increasing repression in Russia, including the case of Alexei Navalny, the European Parliament condemned the role of Moscow Patriarch Kirill in Russia’s war against Ukraine.
Broke tradition = sinned?
“Tradition is the transmission of fire, not the worship of ashes,” wrote Gustav Mahler. What is tradition in church life? Which traditions are obligatory for a Christian, which are nothing more...
Incredible, but true: thoughts change the universe. The world is suffering because of our evil thoughts. God saw in the antediluvian people that “all the thoughts and thoughts of their hearts were evil at...
The definitions of the Sixth Ecumenical Council of 631 state: "We seal the doctrine with our consent by preaching the one Christ, the incarnate Son of God.
The seventh-century father, St. John of Damascus, said...
The question of icon-worship seems to be purely practical, given that icon-painting is a church-applied art. But in the Orthodox Church he received an extremely thorough, truly theological staging. What is the deep connection...
The early Byzantine icon of the Mother of God is one of the most revered medieval shrines in Rome. Residents of the city prayed to her for protection from disasters. It is located in...
In an interview, Patriarch Bartholomew, also spoke of his visits to other churches around the world: “Our visits are a pleasant obligation, in all cases a response to fraternal invitations, and are a continuation...
The management of the capital's rotunda "St. George" in Sofia demonstratively placed two Russian flags at the entrance of the ancient church, along with the Bulgarian and Samara flags. Pictures were published in the...
A man entered during the morning service, left a suspicious package and fled
French police have evacuated the Toulouse Cathedral of Saint-Etienne after a man who entered during the morning service left a suspicious package,...
The press center of the Romanian Patriarchate published a communiqué detailing the support provided by the Romanian Orthodox Church to the victims of the war in Ukraine between 18 and 24 March 2022, and...
Theologians, archaeologists, historians and artists of the End of the World
Pandemics and moral decay are serious enough reasons for human societies, regardless of their religion, to be interested in two terms - Apocalypse and...
Pope Francis prayed for peace in Ukraine at a ceremony that looked to a prophecy about peace and Russia that stems back more than a century to purported visions of the Virgin Mary to three peasant children in Fatima, Portugal, in 1917, but the significance of the needed some explaining to those unfamiliar with Catholic history.
The head of the Patriarchate of Alexandria, Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa Theodore II, has been visiting the Democratic Republic of the Congo since March 4 this year. His associates call the visit...
"Taxi driver"
The church's review: "Irrational violence has no distancing objectivity and its attempts to shock are too realistic in scenes of bloodshed."
"Last Tango in Paris"
Church Review: "Sex scenes, while not pornographic, are unnecessarily long...
In a public statement of March 2 and in a private letter of March 3 on the occasion of Russia's military invasion of Ukraine, I expressed, as Dean of the Faculty of Theology at...
Helping the sick and the poor is a liturgical act, but there should be no imbalances.
In the Orthodox Church, great emphasis is placed on mysticism, on spirituality. A person's relationship with God is built...
Metropolitan Athenagoras of Belgium expressed his sorrow and support for the millions of innocent Ukrainian citizens who are experiencing this terrible war.
“What is happening in Ukraine fills us with deep sorrow. This war is...
The President of the Conference of European Churches (CEC), Dr. Christian Krieger, called on Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia to raise his voice clearly against Russian aggression in Ukraine and to contribute...
Why is the voice of the priests of the Russian Orthodox Church in Russia not heard a week after the beginning of the constant strikes of the Russian armed forces in Ukraine, and why...
The International Agency for Humanitarian Aid and Development (IOCC) at the Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops of the United States is organizing a donation campaign in response to the needs caused by the war...
On March 1, five Ukrainian dioceses of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) in eastern Ukraine officially refused to mention Moscow Patriarch Kirill during a service. The decisions are published on their official websites....