Metropolitan Athanasios of Limassol
Rating: 10|Votes: 8
And I bring you a gift to express my great love for you. What great significance this has—to tell someone else with all your heart: “May you have many years of good health, and may God bless you!”
Fr. John Whiteford
Rating: 8,9|Votes: 30
In the wake of another cold-blooded school shooting, this time by a teenager who had been baptized in the Orthodox faith, rector of the Church of St. Jonah in Spring, Texas (ROCOR) Fr. John Whiteford talks about a sore them—how to keep ourselves going in the spiritual life and how to impart this to our children, against the growing tide of anti-Christian cultural norms.
Rating: 7,5|Votes: 8
A Georgian royal couple living in Europe, Prince John Bagrationi and the famous model Kristina Dzidziguri, were married in an Orthodox service in the ancient Svetitskhoveli Cathedral in the town of Mtskheta, the former capital of Georgia, on Sunday.
Rating: 9,3|Votes: 7
Several thousands came out in Kiev on Saturday to march for the protection of the rights of children and the family under the slogan “Happy Family—Healthy Ukraine!”
Rating: 10|Votes: 4
The International Day of Protection of Children is celebrated throughout the world annually on June. The holiday was established by decision of the Women’s International Democratic Federation congress in November 1949, and was first celebrated in 1950.
Rating: 10|Votes: 3
Members of the Russian human rights movement Women for Life are calling for a monument to victims of abortion to be erected in Moscow, as a challenge to Russians to seriously think about the scourge of abortion that plagues their country.
Anastasia Ptitsyna
Rating: 10|Votes: 11
It is also many years of a painstaking work of ingenious teachers who step by step bring these children closer to the understanding of the following: “I just cannot hear and see. But my life is filled with joy, interesting events and colors. And I thank God for this every day.”
Fr. Sergius Chetverikov
Rating: 9,1|Votes: 36
Before answering that question, I want to say a few words to those who assert that one should not “impose” religious beliefs on children.
Archimandrite Andrei (Konanos)
Rating: 9,2|Votes: 116
Many ask us priests, “What is your opinion on teenagers?” Around 20 years ago I used to teach high school classes, and I was also asked that question.
Yuri Pushchaev
Rating: 8,6|Votes: 17
So should priests marry all who ask for it only because the engaged couple wants it? How can we bring home to newlyweds the importance and greatness of this holy sacrament?
Fr. Ted Bobosh
Rating: 8,1|Votes: 10
In giving birth to us, in giving life to us, our mothers make it possible for us to experience God, to be in God’s presence. For this alone, we should thank and honor our mothers.
Olga Sorokina
Rating: 9,3|Votes: 3
Here are five inspiring stories of how different parents have found the strength and faith to raise their seriously disabled children with a positive attitude for the future.
Rating: 9,6|Votes: 29
The marriage bond is a cross-like connection, a connection founded on God’s blessing, which presupposes that the couple are entering into it consciously, with a readiness to transcend themselves and overcome their egos in order to communicate with one another.
Lolita Naranovich
Rating: 9,7|Votes: 18
Isn’t it true that today one must be a real hero to take on his shoulders the indeed heavy responsibilities of keeping and maintaining a children’s home?
Rating: 10|Votes: 20
Fr. Vitaly baptizes and integrates children into Church life, and Ekaterina teaches and comforts them. And the adolescents who once lived in an atmosphere of debauchery, brawls and rowdiness now sing with shining faces in the church choir, and never forget to pray before eating.
Xenia Ryabova
Rating: 10|Votes: 13
The Paralympic champion Xenia Ryabova who has been on a wheelchair since her birth speaks about faith, hope, and love in her life.
Lolita Naranovich, Xenia Ryabova
Rating: 10|Votes: 18
This priest said that people like us come to this world so that others could become purer through supporting us, so that they could become more merciful, kinder and better. We help people and the society become more human.
Rating: 10|Votes: 5
The march is traditionally held on the feast of the Annunciation, which this year also coincided with Holy Saturday, the day before holy Pascha.
Rating: 10|Votes: 6
Following the Sunday Divine Liturgy at the Holy Ascension Banchensky Monastery yesterday, His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry of Kiev and All Ukraine visited the children’s treatment-rehabilitation center “Faith, Hope, and Love,” to greet the orphans cared for by the monastery with the Paschal joy of the Risen Lord.
In his Paschal epistle, His Holiness Catholicos-Patriarch Ilia II of Georgia pointed to the country’s need to create an “anti-abortion attitude” and to supply help from the state for families with many children.
