Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeyev)
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There is a simple axiom, understandable to every educated European. European civilization is a culture that has developed on a Christian foundation.
Archbishop Mark of Berlin, Marina Sazonova
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Visiting the expanses of Kazakhstan, I feel in my heart that this is truly an antimension under the open skies. Every populated place here is connected with the name of a New Martyr or Confessor, every kilometer of Kazakhstan soil was bathed with the blood of those suffering for Christ.
The first contacts, which became the basis of the friendship between our Churches, go back to antiquity, in the tenth–eleventh centuries, when the recluse Procopius, like St. Sergius of Radonezh, founded a monastery in the forest wilderness not far from the Sázava river, which later became a large, famous monastery.
The Orthodox Christian Church is present in well-established ethnic communities. We attended worship services in Russian, Serbian, Greek, Afrikaans, and English. In addition, since the end of apartheid, the Metropolitan has actively encouraged outreach to the residents of the black African and colored townships, and mission churches are developing!
With the institution of marriage under assault from several directions, the concerted efforts of the Left are directed toward either keeping marriage from leading to families, or creating mockeries of marriage which are, by definition, barren.
