“Many Clergymen and Laity of the South-American Diocese are isolated from the rest of the Church”

A conversation with the First Hierarch of ROCOR, His Eminence Metropolitan Hilarion of Eastern America and New York.

But no matter what, Russian people have not lost their firm faith. The new generations are reason for a great deal of hope. During my first visit to Buenos Aires, I met with Russian youth and saw that they are striving to immerse themselves in the Russian spiritual tradition and learn more about the Russian Orthodox Church. Young people are well aware that the only place around which they can come together is the Orthodox parish.

An Announcement from His Holiness, Patriarch Kirill on the Terrorist Act in the Moscow Metro

His Holiness, Patriarch Kyrill

On Moscow, March 29, 2010, His Holiness, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, issued an announcement regarding the terrorist act in the Moscow metropolitan subway. On March 29, 2010, two explosions set off by suicide bombers in two different centrally located stations of the Moscow metro caused the deaths of 39 people to date, and 71 hospitalized, five of which are in critical condition.

Rating: 10|Votes: 3

Pain and hope in ancient Orthodox Ossetia.

An interview with Hieromonk Nicodim (Bekenev)

Today South Ossetia is a fertile field for pastoral work. Most of the people who live there consider themselves Orthodox, and feel linked with Russia not just politically, but more importantly, spiritually. The gap which formed in Church life under the soviet regime is now disappearing. People are going to church, and there is a great thirst for the word of God. The holy fathers say that the most important conditions for salvation are memory of death and fear of God—and that is what people who live there have.

Rating: 10|Votes: 1

“In Christianity, I see a true return to humanity.”

An interview with Archbishop Andrei (Gvazava) of Samtavisi and Gori (Georgian Orthodox Church).

I think that the first step toward peace should be bound up with the truth, because without the truth, there is no meaning to existence. Truth is man’s natural desire, and humanity cannot live without truth. Of course, the truth should be spoken on all sides, because each should accept the responsibility for the guilt that lies with himself.

Rating: 8,4|Votes: 7

An Orthodox Look at Nostradamus

Hieromonk Job (Gumerov)

An unalterable sign of a true prophet is absolute purity of faith and teaching. The heralds of God’s will were those through whom the Lord always enjoined His people to turn away from all false teachings and return to the true path. Prophets were preservers of piety and divinely revealed religion.