The Turkish government's long-awaited "democratisation package" of reform laws announced this week has met with considerable disappointment among Turkey's minority religious communities.
In the book, he recounts that as part of his long spiritual journey that started in Syria. “It’s a love story,” he said. “God loves every person on the planet the same. He doesn’t love believers more than non-believers. He just cries and watches what we’re doing to each other. Why has love taken a backseat to violence? Where did we go wrong?”
While studying abroad in Russia last year, my professor said he was one of those people who thrived on discomfort — the kind you get from being a stranger in a foreign land. I would like to think I’m one of those people too.
Anastasia Rahlina, Bishop Pachomy (Bruskov)
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As the Lord said in the Gosples, He that is able to receive it, let him receive it (Mt. 19:12): one person may be capable of living an intense inner life, regularly go to church, and continually search his own conscience—as St. Ignatius (Brianchaninov) says, so that their minds would always swim in the Gospels, in the teachings of Christ. Another person might be so inwardly disposed that it is an ascetic labor for him to receive Communion only twice a year.
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This is the first exhibition here dedicated to modern foreign missions of the Orthodox Church. Visitors were able to see how Orthodoxy is spreading in such countries as the Philippines, Mongolia, India, Pakistan, Thailand, Cambodia, the Ivory Coast, Kenya, and elsewhere.
