Archpriest Andrew Phillips, Priest Srboliub Miletich
Rating: 10|Votes: 14
These tragic events have therefore once again focused attention on the extraordinary universalist and meddling pretensions of the Patriarchate of Constantinople. Where did these strange and novel ideas originate?
Protodeacon Vladimir Vasilik
Rating: 9,8|Votes: 12
Are catastrophic events connected with envy characteristic only of Byzantium? Alas, no.
St. John (Maximovich) of Shanghai and San Francisco
Rating: 9,4|Votes: 72
The moral authority of the Patriarchs of Constantinople has likewise fallen very low in view of their extreme instability in ecclesiastical matters.
Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeyev)
Rating: 9,1|Votes: 49
We have made this statement today in the hope that they will reconsider their decision, that no exarchs will go to Kiev. However, in the event that the decision is not reconsidered, we will be forced to think of retaliatory measures. At the moment, such measures are being discussed by our Holy Synod.
Archimandrite Job (Gumerov)
Rating: 9,4|Votes: 19
Today we celebrate one of the world’s most beloved icons of the Mother of God—the Vladimir icon. Tradition has it that this icon, which is now preserved in a church attached to the Tretyakov Art Gallery in Moscow, was originally painted by the holy Apostle Luke.
Sergei Geruk, Archbishop Theodosy (Snigiryov) of Boyarka
Rating: 8,9|Votes: 18
The 1030th anniversary celebration of the Baptism of Rus’ revealed new tendencies in the church life of Ukraine, made manifest in the hidden attitudes of society towards the church. What were the spiritual results of this anniversary? Has the danger of the non-canonical legalization of the schism ceased? What is the spiritual status of the Ukrainian flock? When will peace finally come to Ukraine?
Sergei Kuznetsov
Rating: 8,3|Votes: 11
The History of the Russian Church, as well as that of the Kievan Metropolis, separated between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries, can be characterized mainly in the light of: a) The weakness at the center of the Patriarchate of Constantinople; and b) The strong influence of Catholicism on the Ukrainian lands controlled by Poland.
Rating: 10|Votes: 3
During work along the right bank of the Tiber this summer, the archaeological group Cooperativa Archeologia uncovered what was first thought to be a villa, but later considered to be a church.
Peter Davydov, William Brumfield
Rating: 9,5|Votes: 29
“I firmly believe that familiarity with Prokudin-Gorsky’s photographs (not just a superficial glance) would be a great help to all who want to get to know Russia at least a little better and more sincerely—better than television, blogs, and newspapers. Bear in mind that nostalgia for the “good old days” should motivate us to work for the good of Russia and pray for it instead of plunging us into deep despondency.”
Rating: 9,5|Votes: 13
The community had a reader, a choir director, and an icon-painter. It was the largest Orthodox parish of the time in Germany.
Rating: 9,3|Votes: 15
1988 was a turning point in the societal perception of the Russian Orthodox Church and its role in the history of Russia. The celebrations dedicated to the 1,000th anniversary of the Baptism of Rus’ became a real triumph for the Russian Orthodox Church, which the faithful themselves could not have imagined.
Rating: 9|Votes: 62
The way concentration camp prisoners died was horrific. Some died of famine, backbreaking labor, and epidemics. Some were executed by shooting, but the majority of them were killed with cold steel: The Ustase would cut their throats with special knives (“Serb-cutters”), fracture their skulls with hammers, cut off their hands, legs, fingers, ears, lips, put out their eyes, hack off women’s breasts.
Elena Balashova
Rating: 9,5|Votes: 60
On September 17, 1918, a three-man presidium of the Department for Combating Counter-Revolution sentenced Archpriest Neophyte to death. The 72-year-old priest was shot and buried beyond the fence of the Kalitnikovskoe Cemetery on the same day.
His Holiness Patriarch Kirill
Rating: 9,8|Votes: 29
A question arises: “Is it possible through crime, through blood, through violence, and through the destruction of holy sites to build a happy life?”
Chris Mitchell
Rating: 5,8|Votes: 9
The Bible says this is the place where Joshua parceled out the Promised Land to the 12 tribes of Israel. It's also where the Tabernacle of the Lord stood for more than 300 years.
Ryan Hunter
Rating: 9,2|Votes: 41
The growing popular veneration of the Imperial Family today is also undoubtedly part of something else, a reality that transcends a purely earthly political dimension.
Andrei Manovtsev
Rating: 9,7|Votes: 25
But for the indifference to the tsar in the hearts of our ancestors 100 years ago, the Royal Family would not have been martyred. But for the indifference to the holy emperor in the hearts of our contemporaries today, the poisonous movie “Mathilde” would not have been released.
Rating: 8,3|Votes: 75
We present these rare photographs of the Royal Family dated between 1917 and 1915, from six family albums that were taken out of Russia by the Empress’s lady-in-waiting, Anna Vyrobova.
Archpriest Andrei Tkachev
Rating: 9,5|Votes: 28
The Tsar rises above the age-old lies, appearing before our contemporaries in his human greatness and martyric crown. The question is not in the restoration of the monarchy, but first in the awareness of our past and the improvement of the present.
Alfred Kentigern Siewers
Rating: 8,9|Votes: 11
On that date a hundred years ago, the last tsar of Russia, Nicholas II, his wife the tsarina Alexandra, their five children and four retainers, were ushered into a basement in the city of Yekaterinburg in the early hours of the morning, for an execution that would mark a turning point in history.
