The greatest concentration of Ukrainian Orthodox is in the small town of Fram, in Itapua. With amazing energy and drive they have made an agricultural paradise out of this piece of jungle. Weaving their Ukrainian culture and traditions with their Orthodox Faith, they demonstrate order and discipline, and have become an exemplary town throughout Paraguay.
Hieromonk Ignaty (Shestakov), Zinaida Oborneva
Rating: 10|Votes: 2
Missionary work in this area is always dangerous. We hope in God's grace and the protection of the Mother of God. I am often in hot spots of Eastern Congo; we experience all those events, and are consoled and thank God that we have endured these trials. We have Christians there, missionary centers and parishes, which must not be abandoned.
Archimandrite Tikhon (Shevkunov)
Rating: 8,9|Votes: 10
That is just how it was. From early morning, at his post by the Holy Gates, Fr. Abbakum, demanded that every person entering the monastery read the Nicene-Constantinople Creed, composed by the fathers of the first and second Ecumenical Councils in the fourth century. His calculation was ingeniously simple: every church-going Orthodox person knows this text by heart.
Fr. John A. Peck
Rating: 8|Votes: 1
The doctrine – called futurism – which would later become ‘the rapture’ originated and was submitted by Francisco Ribera in 1585. His Apocalyptic Commentary was on the grand points of Babylon and the Anti-Christ which are now known as the rapture doctrine. Ribera’s published work was called “In Sacram Beati Ionnis Apostoli & Evangelistate Apocoalypsin Commentari” (Lugduni 1593).
Wesley J. Smith
Rating: 10|Votes: 3
Fr. George and his family lived quietly until the communist government renewed its assault on faith. Heeding what he considered a divine call to speak out sacrificially, he offered seven homilies to young Romanians, one homily building on the next during each Wednesday of Lent. It was a rare moment of courage for 1978 Romania: When the church was closed to him by his terrified Patriarch, he preached from its steps. When the gates were locked, the growing audience of youth defiantly climbed the fence to hear him.
