Rating: 6|Votes: 4
The only solution to the dispute between Moscow and the West is a neutral Ukraine, argues Clifford Gaddy. The Russia expert at the Brookings Institution spoke to DW.
Rating: 8,7|Votes: 6
Turkey's small Christian population doesn't enjoy all the same rights as the Muslim majority. The Greek Orthodox Church has a particularly difficult relationship with the state, says religion expert Walter Flick.
Dr.Dmitry Avdeev, M.D.,Ph.D
Rating: 8,8|Votes: 11
The portrait of a neurasthenic is typical — this is a person who is quick-tempered, irritable, quickly wound up, "at the drop of a hat," in whom the nerves are clearly giving out or, just the opposite, lethargic, whining, feeling tiredness and exhaustion in all of his life powers. But it is interesting to note: the high irritability and irascibility of the neurasthenic is not directed toward himself, but towards others!
His Holiness Patriarch Kirill
Rating: 10|Votes: 2
The Church must conduct pastoral work for the care of souls, pray, and make peace between people; but under no circumstances must it serve one or another political view, position, or concept.” This allows the Church to remain outside of a conflict, and carry on its work of bringing peace between the conflicting sides.
Fr. Michael Butler, Andrew P. Morriss
Rating: 5|Votes: 2
It is important to clarify the Church’s teaching on asceticism because many voices in the environmental movement encourage a kind of ascetical lifestyle in the name of “ethical consumption.” Orthodox writers on the environment are not immune to the temptation of putting the ascetical tradition of the Church in the service of another agenda.