Sergei Shumilo
Rating: 7.7|Votes: 10
And although there is virtually nothing and no one left of Lipkovsky in the Church outwardly, it hovers over our Church as a black raven, corrupting it from the inside to this day…
Matfey Shaheen
Rating: 9.5|Votes: 18
Rather than attempting to add to the litany of excellent publications on the feast day, and retell the same glorious stories, let’s take a look and reflect on some stories and aspects of the Lavra that are rarely told in the English language.
Rating: 10|Votes: 9
The “Will and Testament” of the Forty Martyrs—the Roman soldiers of the Eleventh Thundering Legion (Legio XII Fulminata) who suffered in 320 in the town of Sebaste (Lesser Armenia)—is an important historical document and memorial of early Christian hagiographic literature.
Archpriest Andrei Tkachev
Rating: 9.1|Votes: 29
This assessment and comparison of persecutions against the Church in Ukraine by the Poroshenko government today and its persecution by the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth after the Brest Unia in the sixteenth century was offered by an Archpriest Andrei Tkachev, who was born and raised in Lvov, the center of Western Ukraine and the stronghold of Greek Catholicism (Uniatism).
Rating: 10|Votes: 13
On Saturday, as the Church celebrated all those saints who have shown forth in asceticism, just on the threshold of Lent, the Romanian Orthodox Church also prayed for all those who lost their lives at the hands of the godless communist regime in the 20th century.