The Pan-Orthodox Council, Ukraine Crisis and Christian Unity

An interview with Metropolitan Hilarion Alfeyev of Volokolamsk, the chairman of the Russian Orthodox Department of External Church Relations.

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Church History

The Pan-Orthodox Council, Ukraine Crisis and Christian Unity

An interview with Metropolitan Hilarion Alfeyev of Volokolamsk, the chairman of the Russian Orthodox Department of External Church Relations.

Where does the Russian Orthodox Church stand on the crisis in Ukraine? And why is a Pan-Orthodox Council planned for 2016?

One regret too many – reflecting on one's life

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Orthodoxy Today

One regret too many – reflecting on one's life

“If my rifle took lives, does it mean that I, Mikhail Kalashnikov, aged 93, a peasant woman’s son, an Orthodox Christian in faith, is guilty of those people’s deaths, even if they were enemies?”

Ukraine Learns the Problem With Revolutions

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Orthodoxy Today

Ukraine Learns the Problem With Revolutions

What we are seeing taking place in the eastern provinces of Ukraine shouldn’t be terribly surprising, after all—the erroneous, yet seductive phrase “one Ukrainian people” that has been uttered over and over again by American and European diplomats, was always a fiction.

Brendan Eich: First on the New Blacklist

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Orthodoxy Today

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Brendan Eich: First on the New Blacklist

The new blacklist means that while diversity of races, genders and sexual orientations is mandatory, diversity of thought and opinion is restricted. In Silicon Valley, they burn heretics.

Photographer Punished for Refusing Gay Marriage Gig Continues Paying the 'Price of Citizenship'

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Photographer Punished for Refusing Gay Marriage Gig Continues Paying the 'Price of Citizenship'

The U.S. Supreme Court Monday declined to hear Elane Photography v. Willock, the case of a photographer who was told by the New Mexico Supreme Court that she must, as “the price of citizenship,” use her creative talents to communicate a message with which she disagrees or suffer punishment.