Veronika Buzinkina
We not only helped, but we benefited a lot from it ourselves. Overall, any remembrance of life as a fleeting moment sobers up our soul.
Metropolitan Luke (Kovalenko)
The “dogs” are those who, under the pretext of piety and zeal for God, tear apart the Church and lead people away from Christ. They are those who tear, bite, and destroy what belongs to God. Such “dogs” have no love in their hearts—neither for God nor for man.
Valeria Anpilova
Several months have passed since my trip. I felt an urge to go to church and have now started attending regularly. I have long sensed that God exists, so I was as if living in anticipation of the right moment to come to Him.
Metropolitan Luke (Kovalenko) of Zaporozhye and Melitopol
Today we hear the words of the Apostle Paul, which come to us as a spiritual testament: The Lord is my judge. For the Apostle, it mattered not what men thought of him—for there is but one true Judge, and that is God.
Olga Sokirkina
A Moscow priest who taught Red Army soldiers during the Civil War was repeatedly persecuted and executed at Butovo firing range in 1937, one of thousands of clergy martyred under Stalin.
A synaxis is when all are together. To sit on bunks, to send parcels to those who are on bunks, to serve the Liturgy under threat of being shot, to carry logs, to repair nets, to love, to die, to pray and to believe.
Hieromonk Agafangel (Davlatov)
The podvig of those who testified to our Lord Jesus Christ in the Solovki Archipelago is of paramount importance to the Russian Church.
Maria Polyanskaya
That difference lies in this: either you do the work with joy, love, and empathy—the kind of work you simply cannot do without those three things—or you won’t last even a single day.
Sergei Mudrov
The reports were so distorted that the victim—the UOC—was portrayed as the aggressor.
Tucker Carlson, Protodeacon Vadim Novinsky
Tucker Carlson recently spoke with Protodeacon Vadim Novinsky about the Ukrainian state’s campaign of persecution against the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
Few Americans are aware that, in August 2024, the Ukrainian government passed legislation outlawing the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC), which until recently was the country’s dominant religion.
Metropolitan Antony (Pakanich)
God is not mocked. The saints are above all the blasphemies committed against their relics.
Did USAID sponsor anti-Orthodox persecution in Ukraine?
Demonstrations flare after video spread on social media showing hooded fighters setting fire to tree.
Unidentified gunmen attacked a Greek Orthodox church in Hama, Syria, on Wednesday, December 18, firing shots at its walls and attempting to remove the cross, according to local reports.
Alexander Pavuk
The crucial point is not just that persecution is occurring. It is that its duration puts the lie to all characterizations that the UOC ban is a response to supposed wartime disloyalty (the official explanation).
Jesse Dominick
On October 17, one of the bloodiest takeovers took place in Cherkasy, when the schismatics seized the Archangel Michael Cathedral and violently attacked His Eminence Metropolitan Theodosy, as well as Orthodox clergy and parishioners.
The attempt to completely cancel a whole portion of society is fraught with the danger of a huge schism in society in the future. And this will be yet another component on the path to the deterioration and self-destruction of the Ukrainian nation.
There were 2,444 anti-Christian hate crimes across 35 European countries last year, with the UK among the highest, a new report has found.
Using Ukraine as an example, the Phanar is implementing a strategy of union that may later be applied on a broader level.
