Hieromonk Madai (Maamdi)
Today there are thousands of Christian Kurds and hundreds of Iranians who have converted to Orthodoxy on their own. It was from these new converts that the initiative to establish a mission began.
Bishop Alexei (Trader) of Alaska
We have examples of saints, including modern ones, who show with their lives that holiness can be achieved.
Bishop Irenei went on to offer his thanks for the prayers and labours of his brother-Hierarch.
You walk into another world, that of “superluminous darkness,” darkness that is not the absence of light but light mostly beyond the ability of the human eye to see. Yet not beyond the ability to feel.
Priest Stanislav Rasputin
Locals are sincerely interested in the Orthodox faith and have the desire to study the faith.
The Church, the Synod, the clergy, and the people have said their word, and raised their voices to heaven: “This is a crime!”
Priest Kirill Zholtkevich
My spiritual training began with my grandfather, a priest. He took me into the altar when I was four. Since then I have been in church and have always been surrounded by clergy.
Metropolitan Mark (Arndt)
We are under daily pressure from both sides, from the Israelis and the Palestinians. Christians have a very difficult life here.
I do not expect any justice from any court in Ukraine. It is a country that is totally steeped in the prosecution of Christians.
John (Amir) Azarvan
I am just one of countless people whose lives Fr. Alexander touched.
Archpriest Vladimir Tyshchuk
I feel inwardly the enormous responsibility that lies with me, and to the best of my ability I will try to come up to your expectations. If we can resist the spirit of division that now dominates the world, we will win.
Before God we will either be justified or condemned, and it is vital to walk the path toward justification.
There is no doubt that this theory of exclusivity stems from the theory of Constantinople as "head of the churches" that Patriarch Bartholomew and his partisans have developed in recent years.
In following this path, Father Michael did not hide the teachings of the Alaskan elders and the lives of native peoples under a bushel basket, but rather he put it on a candlestand so that their light could be seen throughout the entire world.
Mother Maria (Wall)
When you feel vulnerable, so unprotected and exposed and surrounded by evil, help can only come from God.
Maria Vasic
We are convinced by our own example that you “don’t walk over the doorstep without asking His blessing”—and, when your doorstep is in Kosovo, you simply can’t do anything without God.
Fr. Alexander Paramonov
Priest Alexander Paramonov resides and serves in an Australian town called Gold Coast. He answered our questions regarding his life and, together with his wife, matushka Leah, he told us what life is like for Christians in that remote corner of the world.
Priest Francisco Salvador
An amazing thing—dozens of young people were ready to become martyrs and die for Christ.
Fr. Lawrence Farley
True lived Orthodoxy is rooted in the family of the Church—a family built upon apostolic foundations.
Jozef Van den Berg converted to Orthodox Christianity a year later, after paying visits to Elder Sophrony in Essex, Elder Porphyrios in Athens and Elder Paisos in Mount Athos.