Fr. John Valadez
Rating: 8.4|Votes: 19
As the reader will take notice, the waters David Bowie thought he could wade through turned out to be a rip current of no return. Sometime after releasing Young Americans, Bowie entered a stage of heavy drugs and dabbling in the occult. He would snort cocaine, and read books on white magic and the occult, doing what he thought would safeguard his psyche against evil powers.
Sergei Geruk, Metropolitan Pavel of Vyshgorod and Chernobyl
Rating: 9.6|Votes: 20
On the second day of the Nativity, January 8, on the eve of the evening services, about thirty men in balaclavas and masks from the radical right organization C14 (“Sich”) blocked the entrance to the territory of the Holy Dormition Kiev-Caves Lavra. Shouting political slogans and lighting fireworks, they demanded a meeting with the abbot of the Lavra, Metropolitan Paul (Lebed).
Rating: 7.8|Votes: 6
Bishop Mark fell asleep in the Lord on Monday, January 8.
Nicholai Bulchuk, Andrei Kotov
Rating: 9.7|Votes: 29
Only a handful of specialists now know about a liturgical rite called “the Furnace Act” practiced in Russia from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, and mentioned as early as the tenth century in Byzantium. It was a rite that was celebrated on the great feasts. With this rite also began the forefeast of the Nativity of Christ.
James George Jatras
Rating: 6.6|Votes: 7
The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) bills itself as “the collective voice of the Muslim world.”