Prime Minister Albin Kurti said court ruling awarding 24 hectares of land to the Visoki Decani Serbian Orthodox monastery must be implemented.
Abbess Mariam (Zacca)
God is absolute love, which embraces all of creation in its abundance.
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.
Marina Biryukova
Every church, whether restored or newly built, is our eternal message to future generations. Unhappy is the man who cannot go beyond his earthly life and is able to do only what will die with him.
Priest Stanislav Rasputin
Locals are sincerely interested in the Orthodox faith and have the desire to study the faith.
We present this chronological photo collection from the monastery's first days of rebuilding and renewal under the leadership of Metropolitan Tikhon (Shevkunov), to the present day.
Sergei Seryubin
As a former editor of an Orthodox newspaper, I had known about this particular episode from St. Andrew's life for seven years. And now I lived to see it materialize and try it on myself:
In the summer of 2023, 13 men from Lancaster's Annunciation Orthodox Church spent 13 days in Greece as pilgrims on the Holy Mountain.
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.
This sacred site serves as a sanctuary for those grappling with physical and mental suffering, offering a haven of solace and prayer.
Tatiana Shevchenko
This article talks about the life of Nikolai Ivanovich Egorov, the future Archimandrite Dmitry, who escaped the Solovki camps and entered Valaam Monastery as a novice in the 1930s. Later, he founded several sketes in America, where he reposed in 1992.
Archpriest Nikolai Fedko
Now that churches are open and services are celebrated, it is sometimes very sad to see that people who call themselves Orthodox do not value this priceless gift—such intimate and living communion with God.
Fr. Nicholas Esterhuisen
We conduct services in English and Church Slavonic, but we also try to add other languages, such as Xhosa and Afrikaans. This way, everyone will hear their native language during the service and realize that Orthodoxy is their faith as well.
Scientists are debating if a fresco depicting a smiling Virgin Mary in the Gumusler Monastery in Cappadocia, Turkey is original or the result of a restoration gone wrong.
Examining the book: Το Mυστήριο του Χριστού (The Mystery of Christ), written by the Cell of the Resurrection on Mount Athos, this lecture series aims to bring the Athonite catechism to English speakers for the first time.
Abbess Xenia (Pashkova)
Once a star of the stage, singer and director Tatiana Pashkova left a successful career, her beloved theater, and became not simply a nun, but the abbess of the Iveron Convent in the city of Orsk.
Elena Volodina
If you desire mercy, give it to others yourself.
This article concerns a distant Siberian monastery, quite young if you count from the year of its foundation, but by the special grace of God, sanctified by a deep tradition received from ascetics of the past century.
Nadezhda Terekhova
We offer our readers this collection of photographs of Solovki in winter, taken by artist and iconographer Nadezhda Terekhova.
Who knows, what if this became the fourth—and the most unexpected and the most important miracle for me!!!