King Herod the Great
None of the modern monarchs have any real power. In Great Britain, Elizabeth II and several other members of the royal family have formally led the state for half a century,...
How to explain to superstitious people that various signs have nothing to do with the Orthodox holiday?
The site www.pravmir.ru explains in a series of interviews of Oksana Golovko with Orthodox clergymen.
For some, the essence...
Author: Joseph, Metropolitan of the USA, Canada and Australia,
Bulgarian Orthodox Church – Bulgarian Patriarchate
On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the death
of Metropolitan Andrey of New York - August 9, 1972
A popular...
The Roman Catholic Church is the largest and oldest Christian denomination in the world, with some 221,700 parishes, 467,000 clergy, and 1.3 billion members.
Rehabilitation from the tyranny of drugs has a spiritual as well as a physical component, and many faiths, instead of turning their backs on the problem, tackle it head-on within their own religious modalities. ...
Globalization - the involvement of the peoples and states of the Earth in common economic, cultural, information, political processes - has become the main distinguishing feature of the new era. People clearly, as never...
On August 5, in the Vatican, Pope Francis met with Volokolamsk Metropolitan Antony, Chairman of the Department of Foreign Affairs of the Moscow Patriarchate. This is the first personal meeting with a representative of...
"For life is more than food, and the body than clothing"
Gospel according to Luke chapter 12, verse 23
"Wellness" is an active process through which people understand and choose a better way of life; as...
Christianity exerts a political influence over a considerable part of humanity, affecting in a special way more than a quarter of the population of the earth. The history of the relationship between Christianity and...
By Prof. George Mantzaridis, Prof. Emeritus, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Christians have a general awareness of the need for the Church's participation in examining and solving social problems. This is natural, because the goal...
Rome - On Saturday 23 July 2022, more than 50 volunteers from the Islamic Cultural Centre of Italy and Volunteer Ministers of the Church of Scientology cleaned up the stretch of Viale della Grande...
Iranian government agents sealed off the village of Roushankouh, demolishing Bahá’í homes and confiscating their lands, escalating the persecution of the Bahá’ís of Iran.
Author: St. Nikolay Kavasilas
Word one: Life in Christ is realized through the sacraments of divine baptism, holy anointing and communion
36. Since before the Cross it was impossible to find forgiveness of sins and deliverance...
Author: St. Gregory the Theologian
Reading the lower lines, one can hardly imagine that centuries separate us from the author. Some readers might exclaim, “Well, so nothing new under the sun! There have always been...
"Woe to you, because you shut up the kingdom of heaven from men" (Matt. 23:13). This is said to the bishops, who neither themselves teach the people the way of salvation, nor urge the...
The work of St. Gregory the Theologian For myself and for the bishops is one of the most censored patristic works, although it was created in the so-called "Golden Age" of the Orthodox Church...
Author: St. Nikolay Kavasilas
Word one: Life in Christ is realized through the sacraments of divine baptism, holy anointing and communion
1. The life in Christ is planted in this present life , begins here and...
Eunomians - 1. Against those who are so skilled in speeches is my word. And to begin from the Scripture: "I am against thee, O pride" (Jer. 50:31) - in teaching, in hearing and...
Archaeologists have excavated an ancient sanctuary located near geothermal springs in the Italian municipality of San Casciano dei Bani. Researchers managed to find more than three thousand coins, as well as sacrificial bronze artifacts...
At the beginning of September, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, Archbishop Hieronymus of Athens and Metropolitan Epiphanius (Dumenko) of Kyiv, head of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Ukraine, will celebrate together the feast of the...
A huge fire broke out between two monasteries at the monastic state of Mount Athos in Greece.
One of the most valuable monasteries of Athos - the Docheiariou monastery (Greek: Μονή Δοχειαρίου) , which has a very valuable library with hundreds of...
As reported by the Baháʼí Community in Brussels (BIC), the "quiet campaign to strangle the Baháʼí community is now taking a more overt violent turn, reminiscent of the earlier days of the Revolution in...
BIC GENEVA — In a cruel escalation, and just two days after previous attacks on Baháʼís across Iran, up to 200 Iranian government and local agents have sealed off the village of Roushankouh, in...
Next August 12th 2022 will mark 55 years since Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard established, starting in the Spanish Canary Islands as a research project into the spiritual nature of humankind, what has become...
Interview with priest Georgiy Chistyakov
A conversation about spiritual mentorship with Father Georgi Chistyakov (August 4, 1953 - June 22, 2007) — priest, philologist, historian, human rights defender. He is considered a follower of Prot....