Vladimir Shcherbinin
Rating: 1|Votes: 1
The enormous number of antiquities concentrated in Syria’s rather small territory astonished us. Here is the cave near Damascus where, according to tradition, Cain killed Abel. The mountain could not endure such an evil deed and cried out with a great voice. It is not known exactly whether this really happened, but the cave does indeed have the form of a wide-open mouth: there is a tongue, teeth, and larynx. There are still markings pointing out various places: here the Forefather Abraham prayed, and here stood the Great-Martyr George. Everything is alive…
Fr. Dimitry Karpenko
Rating: 10|Votes: 3
The town of Jordanville, NY, is small, but it has great significance for a Russian person living abroad. It is the site of one of the main monastic communities of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia: Holy Trinity Monastery and also Holy Trinity Seminary, established in 1948 to serve the needs of ROCOR.
We call upon our flock to be guided first and foremost by the Holy Tradition of the Church in discerning whether any contemporary question is something that is compatible to the Orthodox faith.
A group of Russian paratrooper chaplains jumped from a transport plane with a large mobile cathedral that they set up in the field upon landing.
Harry Potter, the world’s most famous child sorceror, is to become an Orthodox Christian figure, in a play written by a priest from Tatarstan.
