Rating: 10|Votes: 4
"The argument that each nation, only because it is different from another nation, should have an autocephalous Church is unsupported. At the same time, the argument is unsupported which says that a mature local Church cannot be self-governed only because it does not have a different nationality from one that already has autocephaly. National affiliation cannot and must not be the only criterion for independence. The Church measures according to the criterion of maturity in love and service, and according to pastoral needs, and not according to those who ask for autocephaly on the basis of the separateness of the nation and the state."
Antonina Maga
The Dormition Church of the Mother of God in Casablanca, Morocco, under the jurisdiction of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, is in peril of destruction, as reported on June 1, 2012, by the Rector of Resurrection Church in Rabat, Morocco, Priest Maksim Massalitin.
The Iranian government is said to be launching a new wave of persecution against Christians.
Fr. Geoffrey Korz
Rating: 10|Votes: 1
It is often said that Canada is a nation of immigrants. More than perhaps any nation in the history of the world, the Canadian population is made up of those born outside her borders, those whose first loyalties were (and even still are) in another place, and whose homeland - the "Old Country" - is far, far away.
Rating: 6.6|Votes: 7
Our father among the saints Brendan was born about 484 AD to an Irish family near the present city of Tralee, County Kerry, Ireland.
