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Selected texts from the Holy Fathers on the pastoral ministry
"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…
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The church as a disaster
Written by Protodeacon Andrey Kuraev When we compare the first century of Christian history even with the fourth, we cannot help but note the magnitude of the spiritual catastrophe of…
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The Ecumenical Patriarchate officially accepted the Church in Northern Macedonia
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew celebrated a festive evening on June 9 at the Patriarchal Monastery "Living Source" for the feast of St. Apostle Bartholomew (June 11), when the patriarch also celebrates…
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Globalization and the Orthodox Church
In the light of God's Revelation This publication is a continuation and an attempt to look back at the issues raised about ten years ago in a report entitled "Globalization…
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Why the Church is against magic (2)
The real miracle workers On the contrary, in church healings there are no "black boxes" with incomprehensible content. For, here everything is openly said: Lord, come and heal the sick…
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Why the Church is against magic (1)
The following letter has arrived in the editorial office of the Russian Orthodox magazine Foma (named after St. Thomas the Apostle): Tell me why the Church forbids magic after it…
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The Ecumenical Patriarchate recognized the Macedonian Church as the Ohrid Archbishopric
The Ecumenical Patriarchate has announced that it is accepting the Macedonian Church into Eucharistic communion The Macedonian Orthodox Church (MOC) was surprisingly recognized by the Ecumenical Patriarchate as the Ohrid…
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The unworthy behavior of clergy: sin of the Church or sin before the Church?
Author: Priest John Burdin of the Kostroma Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church, who became the first Russian priest to be tried under the new law on "spreading false information…
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The veneration of saints in the Orthodox Church
The definitions of the Sixth Ecumenical Council of 631 state: "We seal the doctrine with our consent by preaching the one Christ, the incarnate Son of God. The seventh-century father,…
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Pope Francis receives representatives of Iraqi Churches
Pope Francis on Monday received in audience Representatives of the Christian Churches in Iraq visiting Rome on the occasion of the first anniversary of his Apostolic Journey to the country…