Rating: 10|Votes: 8
The videos also include stunning unpublished Romanov colored pictures by acclaimed Russian colorist Olga Shirnina.
Rating: 10|Votes: 3
The day is a great feast for the faithful of the Polish Orthodox Church, who gather in the thousands at Supraśl Monastery in northeastern Poland.
Rating: 10|Votes: 7
Known for his ascetic life, Met. Germanos, who reposed in the Phanar district of Constantinople, where the headquarters of the Ecumenical Patriarchate are located, was also the Exarch of the Rhodope Mountains and the confessor of the Archdiocese of Constantinople.
As the patriarch explained, St. Stephen’s bold and steadfast stand against the infidel Turks earned him the reputation of an “athlete of the faith and of Christ.”
Rating: 10|Votes: 5
“Regardless of what the results will be of the study on the remains discovered at Porosenkov Log, clearly we are talking about victims of the red terror.”
Rating: 9,6|Votes: 9
In the latest message, Met. Antony expresses his deep gratitude for the hundreds of messages of prayers and support he has received.
Rating: 10|Votes: 2
About 6,000 kits of humanitarian assistance were delivered on August 1 as part of the “Mission of Charity and Reconciliation” project of the Synodal Department for Social and Humanitarian Issues.
Rating: 9,6|Votes: 44
In the 1940s, the icon was to be found in the altar of the monastery’s St. Philaret Church. The nuns preserved the icon after the closure and destruction of the monastery. Then, in October 1941, the icon fell into the hands of a German officer who took it with him back to Germany.
Rating: 5,8|Votes: 11
The boy had come to visit his grandmother for the summer. “He told his brother in the morning, ‘I’m going to set that church on fire. His brother didn’t believe him; he just laughed.”
Rating: 7,3|Votes: 11
The staff of a nearby church has stated that parishioners have already been calling to help restore the church, asking where to send money.
Rating: 9,6|Votes: 7
The goal is to present Christian life in Cyprus to a wider audience through the contest, which will culminate with an album and an exhibition.
Half an hour’s drive south of Nazareth, Megiddo is a popular destination for tourists and pilgrims visiting the Holy Land. The Book of Revelation prophesies that the Megiddo Valley will be the location of a gathering of armies for a battle in the end times.
Rating: 10|Votes: 6
An ancient, 13th century Russian monastery has seen its first signs of spiritual life in 100 years. The monastery had been closed in 1918 and its churches were transferred to a local parish community, though it too was soon abolished.
Rating: 8,6|Votes: 20
“One need not be a ‘U.S. evangelist’ or have a ‘Zionist mentality’ to see that the statement from representatives of the Greek Orthodox and Armenian churches and other religious minority communities was obtained under duress.”
Rating: 6,6|Votes: 28
According to experts, the opening of the Islamic studies center would completely rule out the possibility of reopening the seminary, which the Ecumenical Patriarchate has been working for for years, thus far unsuccessfully.
Rating: 9,3|Votes: 15
During the long years of persecution by the godless soviet authorities, the church had been desecrated and used as a club, a library, a warehouse, and even a pig slaughterhouse.
Rating: 9,2|Votes: 13
It will be the first such monument in North America.
Rating: 7,5|Votes: 13
The days are being abused, as neither teachers nor students use the days off to go to Liturgy, the primate argues.
Rating: 9,1|Votes: 67
The Russian Orthodox Church is prepared to begin a dialogue with Russian authorities and society on the return of the institution of the monarchy, one hierarch recently stated.
Rating: 9,8|Votes: 5
Continuing the celebrations in honor of the 100th anniversary of the exceution of Tsar Nicholas II and his family and those martyred with them, a church has been consecrated in honor of the Royal Passion-Bearers in the Dnepropetrovsk Diocese of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
