Priest Vladislav Terentyev
During the Divine Liturgy, the Great Litany and antiphons began to be proclaimed and sung in Mongolian, the Epistles and the Gospel are read in three languages: Church Slavonic, Mongolian and English.
The key event in the life of the parish was the construction of the Holy Trinity Church in Ulaanbaatar in 2006-2009, which is still the only Orthodox church in the whole country.
Bishop Porfiry of Lida and Smorgon
If you long for God, then there can be no insurmountable obstacles on your path.
This accounts for the slow yet steady awakening of interest and love in Mongolia for Orthodoxy, the history of which officially began in Mongolia 160 years ago, although its roots go deep into the imperial past of the “land of the eternally blue sky”.
Dejan Baljosevic
It was hard to see Predrag treading heavily in the evening to his house with blinded windows, carrying another bag of groceries. It was a dreadful loneliness.
Priest Clement Nehamaiyah (Nehemiah)
Indian culture appreciates deeds more than words, so preaching unsupported by deeds in India will not bear fruit and will not attract people’s hearts that way silent deeds can.
The 60-year-old priest had served as rector of Holy Theophany Orthodox Church for nearly 30 years.
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.