Metropolitan Cornelius of Tallinn and All Estonia
Rating: 9,7|Votes: 7
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: 11
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.
Rating: 10|Votes: 7
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: 39
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: 9,1|Votes: 27
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: 43
“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: 9,6|Votes: 30
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.
Rating: 9,7|Votes: 3
The past 2017 year marked the centennial of the terrible revolutionary events that led to the mass exodus of the Russian people from the territory of the former Russian Empire and their resettlement around the globe. To this day, as a result of the sorrowful events of 100 years past, the Orthodox Russian people are perhaps the most scattered in the world.
Rating: 9|Votes: 17
Maria, known throughout the world by her nickname Mama Maria, has cooked thousands of meals over the past several years, ever since she watched the first refugee mom walk in front of her seaside taverna on the island of Samos.
Rating: 5,5|Votes: 2
On Sunday, December 17, the feast day of the Holy Great-Martyr Barbara, celebrations were held at St. Alexander Nevsky Diocesan Cathedral in honor of the 90th birthday of the cathedral’s pastor emeritus, dean of New Jersey, and president of the Synodal Arts & Architecture Commission, Protopresbyter Valery Lukianov.
Metropolitan Hilarion (Kapral), Olga Orlova
Rating: 9,8|Votes: 25
His Eminence Metropolitan Hilarion of Eastern America and New York, First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, talks about the recent Council of Bishops in Moscow, the preaching Christ in today’s world, on the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia and about Orthodox Christians in the United States.
Metropolitan Tikhon of All America and Canada
Rating: 10|Votes: 3
"I come to you from the far-away lands of North America, with a small delegation representing the Orthodox Church in America, to offer a few words before this august body concerning the great man of God and confessor whose name I bear and who is also my predecessor in the United States and Canada, where he served as ruling hierarch of the North American diocese from 1898 to 1907."
The Royal House announced almost one month ago that the king’s health has worsened. He was seriously ill, suffering from cancer.
Rating: 9|Votes: 24
The best photographers in the country are already participating in the project
Mihaela Rodina
Rating: 8,5|Votes: 6
A bit bruised but still standing, old Orthodox churches can be found around Bucharest, having escaped the frenzied demolition of the Romanian capital in the 1980s ordered by ex-communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu.
