“He Was a ‘Nuclear Reactor’ of Divine Love”

Archpriest Alexander Torik on the Providence of God, Signs, Meetings, and Plans, Part 2

Archpriest Alexander Torik

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“He Was a ‘Nuclear Reactor’ of Divine Love”

Archpriest Alexander Torik on the Providence of God, Signs, Meetings, and Plans, Part 2

Archpriest Alexander Torik

The famous Orthodox writer Archpriest Alexander Torik shares his memories and pastoral experience and reflects upon how a confessor differs from a spiritual father and what temptation are the most dangerous for a spiritual father and his spiritual children.

“I Have One Potato Left”

Aid to the extremely needy

Valeria Grechina

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“I Have One Potato Left”

Aid to the extremely needy

Valeria Grechina

The recent prolonged lockdown has caused an increase in the number of needy persons. We have contacted the social departments of the most impoverished dioceses and taken down some vignettes on assistance to people. We share some of them below.

Black Lives Matter activists vandalize Black Madonna Icon shrine in honor of liberation from nazis

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Black Lives Matter activists vandalize Black Madonna Icon shrine in honor of liberation from nazis

The Polish community in the Dutch town of Breda is in shock after Black Lives Matter activists vandalized a beloved shrine to the famous Our Lady of Częstochowa Icon, defacing the icon itself and spray painting “BLM” underneath it.

Montenegro reinstitutes ban on religious and political rallies due to coronavirus

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Montenegro reinstitutes ban on religious and political rallies due to coronavirus

The Montenegrin National Coordinating Committee for the Fight Against the Coronavirus has reinstituted a ban on any mass events in the country, beginning today, due to the increase of cases of coronavirus infection.

Coronavirus is a demonic plan for the dissolution of society—Metropolitan Ambrose of Kalavryta

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Coronavirus is a demonic plan for the dissolution of society—Metropolitan Ambrose of Kalavryta

The first stage of the demonic plan was to instill fear, the hierarch writes, to which end they closed the churches, forbade the ringing of church bells, forbade the use of loudspeakers outside churches, and sought to cause panic with the claim that Holy Communion can transmit the virus.