Once upon a time, thousands of years ago, the wise King Solomon, speaking of the vanity of the world and the injustice in it, concluded: there is nothing new under the sun…
Before that, his...
The Montenegrin-Littoral Metropolitanate of the Serbian Orthodox Church made an official statement on October 9 in Cetinje regarding the attitude of the President of Montenegro, Milo Djukanovic, to the Church. The attempts of the...
According to the Orthodox view developed by the Fathers on the basis of the Bible, ancestral sin (which in the Western tradition is called original sin) had three physical consequences: transience (whose most acute form is suffering), decay (whose main form is disease).
The Russian Orthodox priest Pavel Serzhantov is looking for an answer to this question through the views of the Venerable Elder Siluan on the website pravoslavie.ru.
"Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do...
The author of the interview, Archpriest Zhivko Panev, is a professor of canon law and history of local churches at the Orthodox Theological Institute "St. Sergius ”in Paris and head of a Paris parish.
Observing a Weekend of Prayer and Action against Hunger on 16-17 October 2021, the World Council of Churches and a range of ecumenical organizations and partners invite people and churches around the globe to pray and...
On October 1, every year the Orthodox Church celebrates a calendar-liturgical celebration, celebrating the memory of St. John Kukuzel. St. John Kukuzel is a huge figure not only for the Middle Ages, but also...
Most European governments have created measures to ensure the religious rights and freedoms of historically important churches as well as independent religious organizations.
For example, the Norwegian Constitution states: "All subjects in the kingdom may...
Environmental Ethics in Christian History
Global concern
It has only been in the last fifty years, with the advent of a global concern for ecology, that Christian theology has embraced environmental ethics in a substantial response. With this...
We should rejoice that by the power of the Almighty Spirit, Who "breathes where He wills," some man has miraculously transformed his life and bears fruit to God. Is the path of the Spirit in this person not clear to us?
The change of political regime in Eastern Europe inevitably affected the entire life of the people in these countries, including the religious one. Feeling free to express their beliefs and convictions, they also turned...
It is known that, along with Nikolai Gogol, Dostoevsky is among the few Russian classics with a strong religiosity. But has he always been extremely orthodox? Do his views correspond in all respects to...