By the Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church
The contribution of the Orthodox Church in realizing peace, justice, freedom, fraternity and love between peoples, and in the removal of racial and other discriminations.
For...
Nearly five hundred Christians have sent an open letter to Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia regarding the ban on candlelight services. Alexey Uminsky, whom they identify as their spiritual mentor, reports the...
The Russian entrepreneur and owner of several nightclubs, Mikhail Danilov, donated a part of the relics of St. Nicholas of Mirliki to the Moscow temple dedicated to the icon of the Virgin Mary "Znamenie"....
Farmers displaced and farmlands belonging to Baha’i families in the village of Ahmadabad in Mazandaran province, were forcibly seized this week by Iranian officials.
St. Tikhon Zadonsky
26. Stranger or wanderer
Whoever has left his home and Fatherland and lives on a foreign side is a stranger and a wanderer there, just as a Russian who is in Italy or...
By St. Irenaeus of Lyon
1. Those who reproach the fact that before their exodus, at the command of God, the people took from the Egyptians vessels of all kinds and clothing and so set...
By Fr. Alexey Uminsky
About the author: The Moscow Patriarchate has imposed a ban on the ministry of Fr. Alexey Uminsky, who is no longer the head of the Church of the Holy Trinity on...
Once upon a time in a land not far from our wildest imaginations there existed an annual celebration of immense magnificence involving not just one or two but three esteemed kings. This was no...
By St. John Chrysostom
Then, after the death of Terah, the Lord said to Abram: get out of your land, and from your family, and from your father’s house, and go to the land that...
By priest Daniil Sysoev
“Finally, we were shown the famous words of St. Philaret, which supposedly portray patriotism as a Christian virtue:
“Didn’t the Bible give good education to the people of God in the Old...
Church of Scientology’s Foundation for the Improvement of Life, Culture and Society in Spain held the 10th annual Religious Freedom Awards ceremony
MADRID, SPAIN, January 5, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ -- On December 15th, 2023, the Church...
As of January 1, 2024, 127 Jehovah’s Witnesses were in prison in Russia for practising their faith in private homes, according to the last update of the database of religious prisoners of Human Rights...
By St. John Chrysostom
“Why are you proud of your fatherland,” He says, when I command you to be a wanderer throughout the entire universe, when you can become such that the whole world will...
Freedom of belief - The FundaciĂłn para la Mejora de la Vida, la Cultura y la Sociedad (Foundation for the Improvement of Life, Culture and Society) gathered once again this year in Madrid to...
By Saint John Chrysostom
“...We must move away from this, and clearly know that there is no evil except one sin, and there is no good except one virtue and pleasing God in everything. Joy...
December 15, 2023, witnessed the tenth edition of the Religious Freedom Awards, which are given annually by the Foundation for the Improvement of Life, Culture and Society (Fundacion MEJORA), linked to the Church of...
Ecumenical Patriarch and Archbishop of Constantinople Bartholomew dedicated his Christmas message to the theology of peace. He begins with the words of the 14th century hesychast, St. Nicholas CavĂ sila, that through the incarnation of...
On December 29, 2023, according to the Orthodox calendar, the Holy 14 thousand infant martyrs killed by Herod in Bethlehem are honored.
These innocent Jewish babies suffered for the baby Jesus at the behest of...
Turkey's radio and television regulatory body RTUK has imposed a two-week ban on the popular TV series “Scarlet pimples” (Kizil Goncalar) because it is against "national and spiritual values of society", Reuters reported.
Ilhan Tascha,...
By priest Daniil Sysoev
“Ouranopolitism is (from the Greek Ouranos - sky, polis - city) a doctrine that affirms the primacy of Divine laws over earthly ones, the primacy of love for the heavenly Father...
The intense and quiet work carried out in Spain by religious denominations such as Buddhists, Baha'is, Evangelicals, Mormons, members of Scientology, Jews, Sikhs and Jehovah's Witnesses has remained for decades in the shadows, out...
By Martin Hoegger
Christian movements and communities have something to say about the future of Europe, and more broadly about peace in the world. In Timisoara, Romania, at the annual meeting of the "Together for...
On 18 December 2023, the judge of the Novosibirsk District Court, Oleg Karpets, sentenced Marina Chaplykina to 4 years in prison, and Valeriy Maletskov to 6 years in prison for organizing religious meetings in...
Today, Pope Francis delivered his traditional urbi et orbi blessing to the faithful around the world, where traditionally took stock of world conflicts.