Rating: 10|Votes: 6
She is 85 and has been living in a monastery since the age of 8.
Fr. Silouan (Brown)
Rating: 9,9|Votes: 39
In the Orthodox ascetic tradition, humility is seen as the mother of all virtues. While most of us struggle to even be able to define humility, let alone practice it, His Grace embodied it. As everyone who has ever encountered Bishop Athanasius can attest, His Grace always put others before himself, sometimes even to my chagrin.
Anton Pospelov, Archbishop Tikhon (Dorovskikh)
Rating: 9,9|Votes: 29
We are talking with Archbishop Tikhon about the life of residents of Sakhalin Island and the Kuril Islands, whether Orthodox or non-religious; about the issues, challenges and joyful events of the diocese which has celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary this year; and the region’s spiritual make-up.
Melanie Lidman
Rating: 9,8|Votes: 8
After years of negotiation, 22 sappers clear mines from land of first 3 of 7 churches; goal is to clear all 6,500 mines and open area to the public by January 2020.
Nicholai Bulchuk, Monk Dosifey (Gorbachevsky)
Rating: 9,6|Votes: 24
We commune from the same chalice of the Eucharist; and there is the same undivided Christ in millions of chalices all over the world!
Angel Karadakov, Bishop Athanasius of Kisumu and Western Kenya
Rating: 9,3|Votes: 49
Kenya has a total of 1 million Orthodox Christians. That’s the smallest fraction in Kenya compared to other denominations but the biggest among the Orthodox in Africa.
Fr. Lawrence Farley
Rating: 8,7|Votes: 35
Thinking about the catastrophe that befell Israel in 70 A.D. when the Temple was destroyed and the people of Judea scattered through all the world, I would like to make two points.
Rating: 4,4|Votes: 8
The idea to build the Romanian People’s Salvation Cathedral was launched right after Romania gained its state independence in 1877 but became reality 130 years later during the stewardship of His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel.
Olga Izhenyakova
Rating: 9,3|Votes: 14
We are so used to being skeptical about our contemporaries that at times we don’t think for a moment that people living according to the Lord’s commandments may be among us.
Alexander Adomenas
Rating: 9,6|Votes: 48
When people hear that I am from Kazakhstan, many are surprised and ask, “Are there really Orthodox Christians there?”
Alexander Shchipkov
Rating: 8,3|Votes: 53
Advisor to the Chairman of the Russian State Duma, doctor of political science Alexander Shchipkov talks about the liberal Orthodox subculture and the political phenomenon of a “church within a Church”, and explains how the idea of the secular reformation in Russia is bound up with postmodernist practices.
Rating: 9,6|Votes: 28
For us, a monastery should represent the best of Christian life: love of God, love of family/brotherhood, love of friend and stranger, hospitality to all, joy, delight, and above all, life in abundance through Our Lord and God and Saviour Jesus Christ.
Rating: 8,7|Votes: 7
The church will serve in the Bulgarian language but be under the jurisdiction of the Romanian Orthodox Church.
Monk Sophronios (Copan)
Rating: 9,2|Votes: 51
They live in isolated villages, often referred to as “enclaves”—enclaves of Orthodox Christianity, of Christ, of the Church, amidst a chaotic world that surrounds them on all sides, putting ever more pressure on them to leave forever.
Archimandrite Touma Bitar
Rating: 6,6|Votes: 34
Among these crises, two have restricted the Church's movement, distorted her, created within her an abhorrent duplicity and to a significant degree hindered her from existing within the sphere of living spiritual theology and preaching the Gospel throughout the world. By this I am referring to the crisis of racism and the crisis of Constantinople.
Deacon Stefan Mindea
Rating: 9,6|Votes: 74
After several days and nights of unceasing prayer we had my Christian patient anointed with holy chrism, after which I came into the operating room, praying and wholeheartedly relying on the will of God. It was like obedience for me—I was praying whilst performing surgery!
Irina Svistunova
Rating: 9,9|Votes: 20
Believe that the things that you donate really save people from the cold, illnesses, and despair, and give hope and comfort to those in the most desperate situations.
Ana Maria Luca
Rating: 9,3|Votes: 10
Romanian Orthodox pilgrims are gathering in the eastern city of Iasi for one of the country’s biggest annual religious processions, dedicated to the relics of a popular saint, St Parascheva of the Balkans.
Fr. Joseph Farooq
Rating: 9,2|Votes: 24
In Pakistan and all over the world, Orthodox Christians are proud of their faith and the Holy Cross of Jesus is strengthening their faith and giving them courage to face the challenges of life with vim and vigor in all circumstances.
Roman Silantyev
Rating: 7,5|Votes: 33
Constantinople, in aggressively advancing its supremacy in the Orthodox world, is acting inexcusably and brazenly, humiliating its brother bishops and priests from Russia. This policy of open discrimination according to jurisdictional allegiance leads us down a blind alley, the exit from which requires both time and great effort. It imposes upon the Orthodox Church an internal confrontation, divides and weakens Orthodoxy. It is all the sadder that what is happening is not a mistake but the conscious choice of the Phanar.
