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Europe’s 10 Catholic Processions on Good Friday
Good Friday, 3 April 2026, is one of the most solemn days in the Catholic calendar, and across Europe it is marked not only inside churches but also in the…
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Georgian Patriarch Ilia II Died
The name of the patriarch is associated with the recognition of the restored autocephaly and ancient patriarchal dignity of the Georgian Orthodox Church. This was done by the Ecumenical Patriarchate…
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Orthodox Fundamentalism: Social Portrait and Sources (part 2)
By Konstantin Kostyuk The Two Moralities It would be a grave sin against truth and Orthodox Christianity if we derived fundamentalism and its cultural aggression from that spiritual call that…
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Canonization of 16 Romanian Saints Held in Bucharest
On February 6, the general glorification (later, local glorifications will be held in the dioceses on the day of their memory) of 16 Romanian saints took place in the Patriarchal…
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Orthodox Fundamentalism: Social Portrait and Sources (part 1)
By Konstantin Kostyuk Among the social changes in the post-Soviet period, a phenomenon such as Orthodox fundamentalism has increasingly attracted attention. Due to the long atheistic tradition and the secular…
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Modern Aton/Athos
Organization of Monastic Life The basic regulations for monastic life are contained in the Athonite Rule; more detailed details are recorded in the internal monastic rules (canonisms). The Rule provides…
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Athos after the fall of Byzantium
During the Ottoman era, Athos remained under the patronage (though not always unselfish) of the Turkish sultans, which allowed the Holy Mountain to retain at least some of its former…
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Athos History
Ancient Period In antiquity, the mountain, which, according to the ancients (Steph. Byz. Ethnica. P. 36), bore the name of the mythical Thracian giant Athos (αθως, αθων - of pre-Greek…
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Mount Athos
Athos [Holy Mountain; Greek: ̀Athos, ̀Agion ̀Oros], the world's largest center of Orthodox monasticism, located in Greece on the Agion Oros (Holy Mountain, Athos Peninsula). It is under the ecclesiastical…
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The Bible in all the world’s languages: How artificial intelligence is accelerating an ancient mission
During the Christmas season, millions of people return to church - even those who have long since drifted away from religious life. They listen to the story of Mary, Joseph…