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.
Metropolitan Athanasios of Limassol
Rating: 9,6|Votes: 26
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: 9,6|Votes: 17
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: 19
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.
Rating: 10|Votes: 4
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.
Rating: 8,6|Votes: 8
Several thousands of people gathered together earlier today in a peaceful rally in the capital city of Ukraine, taking a stand against gay propaganda.
Rating: 8,9|Votes: 17
Several children had the special chance to personally visit with His Holiness Patriarch-Catholicos Ilia II of Georgia on Monday and receive his blessing.
Rating: 9,8|Votes: 4
The conference will bring together rural clergy, Church school teachers and directors, teachers of the “We Are Others” foundation, and also parents of children with autism. Participants will talk about how to treat children with autism and how it’s possible to help them.
Rating: 9,9|Votes: 13
Pro-lifers are celebrating a new victory in Mississippi today after Governor Phil Bryant signed the nation’s most restrictive abortion ban into law yesterday. Now the murder of infants in the womb is banned after 15 weeks of pregnancy with no exemptions for rape or incest.
Anna Saprykina
Rating: 9,3|Votes: 15
What can we do to ensure that the whole family can live a Church life as one? Living in megalopolises out of touch with the tradition, we find this task very difficult.
Rating: 9,9|Votes: 8
At the initiative of local parish priests, faithful from the northwestern Romanian villages of Paleu and Oşorhei took up a collection over the course of the previous year to buy a home for a family with 9 children from the nearby village of Parhida.
Mitchell Kalpakgian, Ph.D.
Rating: 7,4|Votes: 5
The mind naturally distinguishes between the true and the false, recognizing the difference between the real and some substitute or imitation for the authentic, between the true and the ersatz, the natural and the artificial. So many errors of judgment and foolish and immoral decisions begin by the failure to recognize these logical, inherent distinctions that form the structure of reality.
The Moscow Patriarchate’s Synodal Department for Religious Education and Catechism is developing a program on the basis of moral values for preschoolers that will be tested in Orthodox kindergartens.
Rating: 8,7|Votes: 7
More than 70,000 families, not meeting the new criteria, will no longer qualify to receive benefit payments.
Since 1994, the Finnish Orthodox Church under the Ecumenical Patriarchate has celebrated the achievements of the mothers among its flock. Mothers who have served the work of the Church in various ways, by educating, guiding, supporting and participating are annually awarded.
