Our convent is the first and so far the only Orthodox women’s monastery in Germany, and I feel that its very existence should bear witness to Orthodox culture there.
Fr. Peter-Michael Preble
Sure we can somehow wrap our minds around things like Hurricane Sandy that is after all a natural disaster, but what of man-made disasters like the shooting in Newtown, Connecticut? How are we supposed to make sense of that?
Members of St. Michael's Ukrainian Orthodox Church lost many things in the fire that ravaged the Harris Avenue building in November, but what they haven't lost is their faith or the sense of community that makes this small parish a family.
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Ask any Beit Jalla Christian, and he or she will point out the poor man's house—and the windows through which the bags were thrown—located right next to St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church in the center of the village.
“We ask why there is violence in our schools, but we’ve systematically removed God from our schools.”
