Rating: 8.4|Votes: 5
A solemn farewell to the specially-made ark with a piece of the relics of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker was held at Moscow’s Christ the Savior Cathedral yesterday. The relic has arrived in St. Petersburg, where it will remain in St. Alexander Nevsky Lavra until July 28.
Fr. Victor E. Novak
Rating: 8.8|Votes: 109
Objective facts seem to mean less and less to more and more people, even professed Christians, and decisions are becoming more often made on the basis “appeals to emotion and personal belief” than on “objective facts.”
Daria Aminova, Anastasiya Karagodina
Rating: 10|Votes: 3
In the post-Soviet era, Russian Orthodox Christianity has enjoyed a revival, and despite the pressures and temptations of modern living, more and more young people continue to flock to seminaries to become priests.
Celestine Bohlen
Rating: 10|Votes: 2
Although the boundaries of the Tao-Klarjeti kingdom, as it is sometimes called, once part of a larger realm ruled by the Bagratid dynasty, had vanished from the map by the 11th century, its Georgian rulers left behind an astonishing collection of churches, monasteries and fortresses. Said to number 300, they are scattered across territory later disputed by, notably, the Byzantines, the Mongols, the Persians, the Seljuk Turks, the Ottomans and the Russians.
Grigory Shugaev
Rating: 9.4|Votes: 51
“In the capital of Latvia the Orthodox churches are filled to capacity with Latvian parishioners. Every Wednesday, Latvian Lutherans and Catholics talk with Orthodox priests about how they can convert to Orthodoxy. In Latvia whole families are receiving the Orthodox faith.”