Maria Lvova-Belova
Rating: 9,9|Votes: 20
The “Louis Quarter” is a staffed community residence for the disabled in Penza. We talked with Maria Lvova-Belova on how it managed to become a landmark of the city, which Louis it is named for, and how not to lose heart in seemingly hopeless situations.
Rating: 7,7|Votes: 10
On July 3, 2019, with the blessing of His Eminence Fyodor, Metropolitan of Mukachevo and Uzhhorod, the educational and charity project “Moments of Joy” began its missionary work in the Mukachevo diocese.
Anna Berseneva-Shankevich
Rating: 9,1|Votes: 35
These parents of nine children have gained very interesting experience by comparing the attitudes of society towards large families in different parts of Russia. According to them, external hardships helped them make a truly strong family.
Rating: 10|Votes: 10
The great patron saint of Ireland will soon be the patron saint of roughly 170 disabled children in a village in Belarus.
Rating: 9|Votes: 36
It can be said that their meeting was arranged by the Lord. They didn’t lower their standards, and have succeeded in bringing up not only five of their own children but also three adopted children.
Rating: 10|Votes: 7
Both the Romanian and Russian Orthodox Churches continue their active philanthropism, recently blessing centers for the elderly and those in need.
Rating: 9,1|Votes: 21
His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry of Kiev and All Ukraine, the primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, honored a number of “mother-heroines” at his residence at the Kiev Caves Lavra yesterday.
Rating: 9,9|Votes: 16
Within the span of a week, the Russian Orthodox Church opened three new shelters for mothers in difficult situations and a children’s hospice in various locations throughout Russia.
Within the framework of a charitable event led by the faithful of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church, more than 150 children with disabilities or from families of persons with disabilities received gifts in celebration of Children’s Day, celebrated on June 1.
Rating: 9,4|Votes: 16
The Synodal Department for Charity and Social Services of the Moscow Patriarchate has several new projects underway.
Rating: 10|Votes: 8
Moscow volunteers from the Women for Life foundation have organized a collection of humanitarian aid for pregnant women in difficult life situations in regions throughout Russia.
Amir Azarvan
Rating: 7,1|Votes: 23
I know, therefore, what the answer to the question “Daddy, do you love me more than God?”—a question with which many Christian parents are likely familiar—ought to be; though whether I, in my weakness, live accordingly is an entirely separate matter.
Rating: 9,1|Votes: 18
Thousands of Orthodox faithful and residents of Moldova filled the streets of the capital on May 18 as they marched in support of traditional families and traditional family values.
Rating: 10|Votes: 17
Family Purity Day was launched by the Patriarch himself five years ago and coincides with the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia, which was launched in 2005.
Rating: 9,5|Votes: 46
Children do an invaluable favor to their parents by helping them see their own sins. It is very difficult to look into your soul and understand your sins. But as you look at your children, you see that their faults are your faults.
Rating: 8,8|Votes: 36
The services were held with the blessing of His Holiness Catholicos-Patriarch Ilia II of Georgia. The organizational work was undertaken by the Society of Chokhonetsev of Georgia, founded by the Georgian Patriarchate with the purpose of strengthening the institution of the traditional family.
Elena Gaaze
Rating: 9,4|Votes: 17
I still keep this joy in my soul. Can you answer me, where did it fall on me (like a bolt from the blue) from?! I believe God gave it to me then as a deposit so that I would not lose heart. And He can give it to anyone. All we need to do is ask: ‘I am yours, O Lord! Please, never abandon me. I want to rejoice in You and don’t need anything else!’
Rating: 10|Votes: 20
The joy of Pascha was shared with thousands of children from poor Moldovan families this year through the Paschal campaign “Grains of Paschal Light 2019.”
Priest Dimitry Shishkin
Rating: 8,1|Votes: 20
Although the author of this article lives in a country that celebrates “International Women’s Day” in March, it is also apropos to the American tradition of Mother’s Day, celebrated in May. This year the Sunday of the Myrrbearers coincides with Mother’s Day, and we wish our readers who are mothers a happy one.
Rating: 8,9|Votes: 8
A young girl was rushed to the Aglaia Kyriakou Children’s Hospital in Athens after she was struck by a stray bullet while playing in her yard in the afternoon on Pascha Sunday.
