Rating: 10|Votes: 3
A red cross on a white scarf, a white apron, and a modest gaze… One can meet these unusual women everywhere there are people in need, from prisons to closed psychiatric institutions. In Ukraine the largest community of sisters of mercy is in Kiev, at the Church of St. Michael, first Metropolitan of Kiev, on the grounds of the Alexandrov Hospital. ForUm paid them a visit to learn about the life of these modern sisters who have dedicated themselves to serving this noble cause.
Rating: 10|Votes: 1
Christianity is an “endangered species” in Africa, pressed between violence from Islamist terrorism on one side and doctrinal and moral “disunity” among Christians on the other, a leading Nigerian Anglican bishop has said. The Most Rev. Nicholas Okoh, the Anglican Primate of Nigeria’s 18 million Anglican Christians, warned the other African nations that doctrinal relativism, which he called “nominalism,” and the “doctrine of prosperity” – the idea that God rewards the morally upright with material wealth - are creating as serious a threat to the continuance of Christianity as Islamic violence on the continent.
Every year, the Novosibirsk floating church, with priests and doctors on board, visits villages 60 miles out from the banks of the Ob River. The idea of sending a floating church down the Ob came from the Rev. Alexander Novopashin, dean of the Cathedral of Saint Alexander Nevsky. The first time the boat set off on a missionary trip was in 1996. A year before this, priests had travelled through Novosibirsk Region on the Memorial Train, which was dedicated to the 50th anniversary of V-E Day.
Rating: 1,5|Votes: 2
The story of St. George Romanian Orthodox Cathedral is, in many ways, the tale of metro Detroit. Michigan's first Romanian Orthodox church, St. George was founded in May 1912 by immigrants lured to bustling industrial cities such as Detroit and its auto-industry jobs. The church's first building was at Russell and Hancock, near what's now I-75 and Warren Avenue.
Rating: 5,6|Votes: 5
The Church of Saint Demetrius, the protector of Thessaloniki Greece: Saint Demetrius, or Agios Dimitrios, (208 AD - 303 AD) is the patron saint of Thessaloniki. He was the son of a wealthy military commander of Thessaloniki and received a good education as a child. He also joined the army and became an officer. When he was young, he decided to get secretly baptized a Christian, something forbidden those years, when idolatric gods were still worshiped.
