By Prince Evgeny Nikolaevich Trubetskoy
On the occasion of the book by candle. P. A. Florensky "Pillar and Support of Truth" (Moscow: "Put", 1914)
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In the Gospel there is a wonderful image, personifying the unceasing division...
By St. archbishop Seraphim (Sobolev), Sermon delivered in Sofia (Bulgaria) on the Feast of Transfiguration, 6th of August, in 1947.
Liturgical Holy Gospel: At that time Jesus took with Himself Peter, James and John, his...
By prof. A.P. Lopukhin
Acts. 2:26 a.m. Therefore my heart rejoiced, and my tongue rejoiced; and also my flesh shall rest in hope.
Acts. 2:27. Because You will not leave my soul in hell and You...
By prof. A.P. Lopukhin
Chapter 2, Acts of the Apostles. 1 – 4. The first Christian Pentecost and the descent of the Holy Spirit on the apostles. 5 – 13. The astonishment of the people....
By prof. A.P. Lopukhin
Acts of the Apostles, chapter 3. 1 - 11. Saint Peter heals a crippled man from birth. 12 – 26. Speech on this occasion to the people.
Acts. 3:1. Peter and John...
The American state of Louisiana ordered the Ten commandments of God to be displayed in all classrooms of the state's educational institutions, the world agencies reported.
A local ordinance dictates that the Ten Commandments must...
Panama City, Panama – In a world where religious freedoms are increasingly under threat, the Faith and Freedom Summit IV is set to provide a crucial platform for dialogue and action. Scheduled for September 24-25,...
By prof. A.P. Lopukhin
Acts of the Apostles, chapter 4. 1 – 4. The capture of Peter and John and consequences of Peter's speech. 5 – 12. The questioning of the apostles before the Sanhedrin...
By Vasileios Thermos, Psychiatrist, Professor, and Priest of the Church of Greece
At the very beginning, we consider it necessary to make some clarifications. First of all, fundamentalism is not about specific ideas and beliefs....
From there they point out that for more than 2000 years Christianity has been the basis of European civilization. The BOC emphasizes that it has left its indelible mark on all spheres of human...
By Jean-François & Hisako Moulinet, and the team of the interreligious circle "Dialogue & Alliance"
The opening ceremony of the Paris Olympic Games has provoked many reactions in the heat of the moment.
A very real...
The recent article, in Le Monde diplomatique concerning the persecution of Falun Gong in China presents a perspective that minimizes the human rights violations faced by its followers. Of addressing the documented abuses against Falun Gong, the author, Timothée de Rauglaudre seems focused on discrediting the movement and downplaying the severity of Chinas crackdown on it.
The Greek police have sent a letter to the Holy Kinotis (the community of representatives of the 20 Athos monasteries that make up the leadership of Mount Athos) asking for assistance in complying with...
On July 23, 2024, Archdeacon Andrey Kuraev was admitted to the clergy of the Exarchate of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Lithuania in response to his request, according to an official announcement of the Exarchate....
On July 28th Russian Patriarch Kirill awarded Vladimir Putin with the Church Order "St. Alexander Nevsky - First Class" in St. Petersburg, expressing his satisfaction with the complete agreement between the church and the...
Research by the Institute for Demographic Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) from October 2022 shows that over the past 14 years, the level of religiosity among youth has halved (2008 –...
By Taras Dmytryk, Lviv, Ukraine
When we speak of the peace that comes down from heaven, we consider this peace to be the grace of God, given to us by God himself. “My peace I...
The world community strongly condemned Russia’s shelling of the historical center of Odesa which damaged and disfigured the Orthodox Transfiguration Cathedral. Many Western delegations visited Odesa but only two Western states promised their assistance.
By...
The Conference of European Churches (CEC) issued a statement condemning Russia's attack on the Ohmatdet Children's Hospital in Kyiv. Its chairman at the moment is the archbishop of Thyatira and Great Britain Nikitas (Ecumenical...
By Prof. Leonid Ouspensky
The Feast of the Ascension of the Lord is a feast that concludes the work of our salvation. All the events connected with this work - the birth of Christ, His...
Journalistic ethics is a delicate subject. There is such a need to protect the press from various forms of interference, and to preserve its freedom, that very often, any criticism of a journalist or...
The former abbot of the Middle Ural women's monastery Fr. Sergius (Nikolai Romanov), who is serving a seven-year sentence, begs Putin for clemency. In the appeal, the former abbot says he helped build twenty...
By prof. A. P. Lopukhin
But does not the dignity of the Holy Spirit be degraded when it is said that the Spirit announces only what he hears from God the Father and God the...
by Martin Hoegger, www.hoegger.org
During the recent ecumenical meeting of "Synaxe" in the monastery of Brâncoveanu, near Sibiu in Romania, on the theme "Blessed are the peacemakers", a biblical journey on peace in the...