By Leonid Ouspensky
When the Greeks regained Constantinople in 1261, the state was in complete ruin. Destitution and epidemics are everywhere. Civil wars are raging (three in one generation). Meanwhile, Emperor Michael VIII Palaeologus sought...
On September 30, 2023, Pope Francis hosted an ecumenical prayer vigil in advance of the synod of Roman Catholic bishops that would begin on October 4. He invited church leaders from various denominations to...
By Br. Charbel Rizk (Syriac Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East)
What is the purpose of this life, this monastic life, that we are living? As monks and nuns, we do many things....
The 22nd gathering of the Conference of International Interconfessional Religious took place this year in Sweden between 31st August and 5th September. 43 monks and nuns from 8 different Church traditions were represented (Roman...
The Bulgarian authorities expelled the head of the Russian Church in the country - Vasian Zmeev. This was reported to TASS by the Russian Embassy in Bulgaria.
"Bulgarian authorities consider Father Vasian to be a...
On September 12, to the ringing of bells, the Russian Patriarch Cyril, in the presence of members of the government of St. Petersburg and "participants of the special military operation", carried with lithium the...
The chairman of the Russian church in Sofia, Archimandrite Vasian (Zmeev), has been banned from entering North Macedonia, several Macedonian publications report. The publications refer to sources from the country's Ministry of Foreign Affairs,...
The Veliky Luki Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church will test the actions of the rector of the church in honor of the icon of the Mother of God All Tsaritsa within the village...
By Prof. A. P. Lopukhin
Matthew 6:12. and forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors;
The Russian translation is accurate, if only we admit that “we leave” (in the Slavic Bible) - ἀφίεμεν...
On August 7, the arrested abbot of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra of Vyshgorod and Chernobyl Metropolitan Pavel (Lebed) was released early from pre-trial detention, where he was supposed to remain until August 14. A bond...
A week ago, the Solomensky District Court in Kyiv granted the prosecution's request to change the remand of the abbot of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra Vyshgorod and Chernobyl Metropolitan Pavel (Lebed) from house arrest to...
The aim of the bill introduced by President Volodymyr Zelensky is to "distinguish from the Russian heritage"
The Parliament of Ukraine voted yesterday to change the date of the Orthodox celebration of the Nativity of...
By Alexander Soldatov, "Novaya Gazeta"
On the occasion of the visit of the Pope's special envoy to Moscow and Kiev
According to official reports, the content of Italian Cardinal Matteo Zuppi's talks in Moscow on June...
"When you don't understand the word of God, but read horoscopes and consult fortune-tellers, you start to go downhill," he warned some time ago
"The Christian does not believe in superstitions, such as magic, (divining)...
By Martin Hoegger, Lausanne, Switzerland
Geneva, June 21, 2023. In his sermon, during the opening celebration of the central committee of the World Council of Churches, Patriarch Bartholomew (Orthodox Church, Constantinople) did not go easy...
Christians in Syria are doomed to disappear within two decades if the international community does not develop specific policies to protect them.
This was the call for urgent assistance from Christian Syrian activists who had...
The Russian Orthodox Church claims that pacifism is incompatible with the teachings of the Orthodox Church, as evidenced by its presence in heretical teachings. This is stated in the materials for the meeting of...
On a shallow level, ‘Teshuvah’ simply refers to someone who goes back to the Jewish faith and resumes its practice after lapsing. On a deeper level, it is much more.
You 'return' from the midst...