Rating: 9.9|Votes: 15

“Whether in Africa Or Russia, Orthodox Parish Life Is Basically the Same”

A talk with the rector of the Church of St. Sergius of Radonezh in Johannesburg (South Africa), Archpriest Daniel Lugovoy

Archpriest Daniel Lugovoy, Vasily Tsuper

It is interesting that Orthodox Christians can be found everywhere. It often amazes me that Divine providence sometimes brings people to faraway places.

Rating: 9.3|Votes: 29

Snakes Are Creeping Back to St. Patrick’s Island

Ivan Fedoseyev

It seems that nowhere more than in the current Irish campaign is the difference between the Christian and the perverted satanic understanding of human rights—the right to do good and the right to do evil—so evident.

Rating: 6.6|Votes: 5

Greek Orthodox minorities vow to save Turkey’s treasured ramshackle orphanage

At the end of the 19th century on an island off Istanbul, this unique six-story structure once served as a home for Greek Orthodox orphans until it was shut down in the early 1960s.

Rating: 9.6|Votes: 51

“Japan Made Me Orthodox”

Constantine Beliy, Eleonora Sablina

Therefore, despite the problems and difficulties, thank God, the spirit of a living Christian community has been largely preserved.

Rating: 9.8|Votes: 8

“Orthodoxy in Estonia Began With Yaroslav the Wise”

A 2003 Conversation with the Newly-Reposed Metropolitan Cornelius of Tallinn and All Estonia

Metropolitan Cornelius of Tallinn and All Estonia

This interview was recorded in 2003 by brothers of Sretensky Monastery who had visited Metropolitan Cornelius at his Estonian residence at Pukhtitsa Monastery, asking the now-reposed archpastor about the USSR and the years of persecution, independent Estonia, the schism in Estonian Orthodoxy, and the daily lives of Estonians.