Fr. Eugen Tanasescu
Rating: 7,4|Votes: 16
The Holy Scripture states unequivocally: homosexuality is a sin. That does not imply that he who sins is lost. On the contrary, the Church detests the sin, but loves the sinners and saves them by their correction.
Fr. Lawrence Farley
Rating: 9,6|Votes: 67
If a respected author writes for a publication whose known purpose is the promotion of a particular agenda, then by that very act he lends credence and credibility to that agenda.
Dr. David C. Ford
Rating: 9,8|Votes: 52
From the point of view of consistency within the Tradition through the ages, it's inconceivable that the Orthodox Church as a whole would ever endorse sodomy – or any other form of same-sex sexual activity – as an acceptable practice, as something consistent with the quest for holiness and purity in spirit, soul, and body which her members have always preached and endeavored to practice.
Sergei Mudrov
Rating: 10|Votes: 7
That is why at this time the most important thing for the Orthodox minority on Malta is to preserve their faith and identity, remaining different in a way that is pleasing to God, despite the Maltese laws and influence of the Catholic majority.
Archpriest Daniel Lugovoy, Vasily Tsuper
Rating: 9,8|Votes: 13
It is interesting that Orthodox Christians can be found everywhere. It often amazes me that Divine providence sometimes brings people to faraway places.
Ivan Fedoseyev
Rating: 9,2|Votes: 27
It seems that nowhere more than in the current Irish campaign is the difference between the Christian and the perverted satanic understanding of human rights—the right to do good and the right to do evil—so evident.
Rating: 6,6|Votes: 5
At the end of the 19th century on an island off Istanbul, this unique six-story structure once served as a home for Greek Orthodox orphans until it was shut down in the early 1960s.
Constantine Beliy, Eleonora Sablina
Rating: 9,8|Votes: 33
Therefore, despite the problems and difficulties, thank God, the spirit of a living Christian community has been largely preserved.
Metropolitan Cornelius of Tallinn and All Estonia
Rating: 9,8|Votes: 8
This interview was recorded in 2003 by brothers of Sretensky Monastery who had visited Metropolitan Cornelius at his Estonian residence at Pukhtitsa Monastery, asking the now-reposed archpastor about the USSR and the years of persecution, independent Estonia, the schism in Estonian Orthodoxy, and the daily lives of Estonians.
Rating: 9,5|Votes: 12
On Saturday, a congregation of about 100 flocked to the Protection (Pokrov) of the Theotokos Church to worship for the first time since it was closed for repair in 2014, the provincial bureau of religious affairs reported on Tuesday.
On the occasion of the glorious feast of our Lord's Pascha, our primates from around the world sent epistles of joy to their faithful flocks.
Rating: 10|Votes: 14
In this video recording, Abbot Ephraim recounts his meeting with an atheist at Vatopaidi Monastery, Mount Athos, Greece.
Bishop Teodosije of Raška-Prizren
Rating: 10|Votes: 13
Under the spiritual direction of blessed Patriarch Pavle, our beloved Mother continuously prayerfully stood before the Lord in pious fear, knowing only Him and His limitless mercy and love.
Sister Margarete (Roeber)
Rating: 6,8|Votes: 6
In the pre-dawn darkness of mid-February, our car from Saint Elisabeth Convent slid over the snow through the gate of the Women’s Farmstead, and pulled up to the house in which Fr. Andrew would celebrate Divine Liturgy.
Sorana Stanescu
Rating: 9,8|Votes: 4
A new breed of Romanian doctors wants to place faith at the heart of their practice, alarming those who believe religion and medicine do not mix.
Archpriest Gregory Hallam
Rating: 9,8|Votes: 41
Fr. Gregory had previously served as an Anglican priest, but in 1992 he became disappointed in Anglicanism and embraced Orthodoxy. Three years later he was ordained and since then has served at a parish of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch in Manchester—one of the largest English cities—for over twenty years.
Rating: 8,1|Votes: 32
In this short video, well-known Russian priest Fr. Andrei Tkachev talks about the phenomenon of people converting to Orthodox Christianity throughout the world, here esecially focusing on America and Turkey. As Fr. Andrei explains, people are looking for the deeper undercurrent of their lives and cultures, and are finding it in the Christ's true Orthodox Church.
Peter Davydov
Rating: 10|Votes: 47
“How can you pray to God but hate other peoples? War with them, kill them? Take away their homes, rape them, rob them, desecrate their churches? I looked at all this and—do you understand? a protest arose in my soul.
Rating: 9,6|Votes: 17
The two weeks between the feast of the Nativity of Christ and His Theophany have in Orthodox lands always been a time spent glorifying Christ in families and communities. With this spilling over of joy in the birth of our Savior came the tradition of walking from house to house singing carols, to bring the grace and peace of Christ’s Nativity to those around us.
Rating: 9,4|Votes: 31
Of course manger scenes are especially for children. And there is no need to explain why—the little ones are transported in their minds and heart to the manger of the Infant Christ in Bethlehem, not only at the festal services but also by gazing upon these mystical manger scenes.
