Freedom from fear
Undoubtedly, the fear of death and the retribution that follows in life after it is a kind of faith, but purely medieval in nature. The painters then depicted the Last Judgment, the...
Outrage among Orthodox Christians around the world has sparked a new ad in which the famous Panagia Sumela Monastery in Turkey was used as a disco. A video from the creation of the ad...
Romanian Patriarch Daniel has published the report of the Romanian Patriarchate on what has been done in the past 2021 in various areas of church life. Interesting statistics are given in the section on...
In the bowels of Christian culture, the question of resisting evil by force is one of the most complex questions of religious consciousness. It includes not only the cardinal problem of ethics, philosophy of...
The appearance on earth to people of beings from the spiritual world - angels and souls
We said that the real world - the earthly - is in union and relationship with the world beyond...
It is believed that until the third day after death the soul remains in the house, and then until the 40th day it travels around all the places where the deceased went in his...
A complete quarantine has been announced in the building of the Georgian Patriarchate due to the increased number of sick employees with the variant of the coronavirus "Omicron". This was announced on February 12...
On February 16, 1568, the most massive death sentence in history was handed down. The Holy See has sentenced the entire population of the Netherlands to death, with the exception of a few people...
Lydia of Philippi is a first-century merchant living in the Macedonian city of Philippi and converted to Christianity by the Apostle Paul. Lydia is revered as a saint in both the Orthodox and Catholic...
A collection (2021, issue 3) has been published in the “Library of the Parish Journal” series, containing explanations of important changes regarding the rights and interests of the Russian Orthodox Church, made to the...
Exodus of the soul
The soul, united by the will of God with the body, is separated, again by the will of God, from the body with which it previously constituted a person.
Divided, the soul...
Here is the doctrinal meaning of the Mother of God - she gives birth to the Son of God. That is why she is the Mother of God.
The consent of the Mother of God...
There is preserved information about the Mother of God in the Holy Scriptures insofar as her person is in connection with the historical person of the incarnate Word - of our Lord Jesus Christ....
Among the believing Orthodox Christians, the last dramatic years of a global pandemic have intensified thoughts about life after death, towards relatives and friends who have passed away. These are questions that excite people...
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Author: Archbishop Sergius of Solnechnogorsk **
The irresistible desire to conquer nature, to subdue its internal forces and resources, although it becomes a source of new tragedies for man, is a powerful stimulus for...
Author: Saint Zeno of Verona
How easy it is to expose greed in front of everyone! Oh, if only they couldn't dislike her so easily! She is a cunning and sweet evil and always a...
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew has appointed a new representative in Athens - this is the Metropolitan of Laodicea Theodoret, one of the most authoritative metropolitans of the Patriarchate. He will head the patriarchal service in...
The Russian-language newspaper Izvestia published an interview of Sofia Devyatova with His Beatitude Patriarch Theophilus III about the threats faced by Christians in the Holy Land, their attitude to vaccination and the prospects of...
Personal growth training, as a rule, consists in "training" a person so that he endures humiliation and insults and "goes over his head" himself, while a positive approach is in the creative disclosure of...
Orthodox youth from around the world will meet this year in Wroclaw, Poland, between July 18th and 23rd.
The meeting was hosted by the Polish Orthodox Church and the Association of Orthodox Youth in Poland,...
The Nierian Bishop Neophyte (in Kenya) of the Alexandria Patriarchate has made public the attempt to take over the diocesan church of his diocese from Russian "missionaries" who travel around African countries to persuade...
Today, the tension between Bulgaria and the Republic of Northern Macedonia is escalating on the basis of different readings on a number of issues from the recent and distant history of the two neighboring...
On the day the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 epidemic a pandemic, it became clear that all of humanity was facing dramatic changes affecting the free movement of people and the functioning...
The canon law of the Orthodox Church adopts the Roman definition of marriage given by the Roman jurist Modestin - "union of man and woman, union for life, communion in divine and human rights."
This...
Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeev): Believers in Africa greet us with "Thank you Putin" posters
Russian President Vladimir Putin awarded the chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate's Foreign Affairs Department, Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeev), with the Alexander Nevsky Order...