Rating: 10|Votes: 1

How The Chapel in the Sunday School of St. Elisabeth Convent Was Constructed

We hope that the children will pray, study church-related subjects and enhance their creativity. This nice and cosy place will help them to concentrate on prayer and learning.

Rating: 9.2|Votes: 14

Christianity is a Common Ground Between West and East

Iben Thranholm

I decided to go to Russia to do some research by myself, because everybody in the West was getting more and more aggressive and negative towards Russia.

Rating: 9.5|Votes: 13

The Ministry of Fr. Nikolay in Ireland: Pastor, Family Man, Programmer

Sergei Mudrov, Fr. Nikolay Evseev

The purpose of our life is to know God. Athonite monks come to know God through silence and hesychia, through the Jesus Prayer. The world has its own ways—through communication with one other, including in our families, and through struggling with our “selves” and egotism. But if you’re only seeking your personal happiness, even if in God, then you are wrong.

Rating: 7|Votes: 3

Guiding ‘starets’: Russian youths discover Orthodox monasticism

Robert Duncan

On Christmas night two years ago, Anya Bulochnikova, 29, first discovered Optina Monastery’s golden onion-shaped domes rising above the bucolic hills and snowdrifts of Russia’s Ugra National Park.

Rating: 5.6|Votes: 5

This Small Greek Island Is Home to More Than 700 Churches

Gisela Williams

A major pilgrimage site for Orthodox Christians, the Greek island of Tínos has long been overlooked by other travelers.