Is Repentance Needed for Healing Schism?

Anna Stickles

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Theology

Rating: 10|Votes: 20

Is Repentance Needed for Healing Schism?

Anna Stickles

Recently, in defense of Constantinople’s actions in Ukraine, some have commented that while repentance is nice as an ideal, “the healing of schisms has rarely involved repentance.” The implication is that repentance is optional, not necessary.

Al-Maghtas. The Place Where the Lord Was Baptized

A Photo Gallery

Anton Pospelov

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Churches and Monasteries

Rating: 10|Votes: 24

Al-Maghtas. The Place Where the Lord Was Baptized

A Photo Gallery

Anton Pospelov

In 2015 Al-Maghtas was added by UNESCO to the World Heritage list as a site associated with the Baptism of Jesus Christ.

Exhibition on Russian Royal Family opens in Prague

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Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days

Rating: 7.6|Votes: 20

Exhibition on Russian Royal Family opens in Prague

A new exhibition on the Russian royal family, “The Romanovs: Royal Service,” opened in Prague’s Russian Centre for Science and Culture on January 14, 2019.

A Fellow Traveller from Transcarpathia

Sergei Bednenko

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Church History

Rating: 9|Votes: 24

A Fellow Traveller from Transcarpathia

Sergei Bednenko

Living in Russia has broadened my horizons. I came to realize that Fr. Job was right when he said that we [Carpatho-Russia] cannot exist without Russia. Without Russia we will have no freedom, no prosperity, no specific cultural or spiritual identity.

How Constantinople Arranged a Tribunal Against the Righteous Patriarch Diodoros of Jerusalem

Athanasios Zoitakis

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Church History

Rating: 8.5|Votes: 32

How Constantinople Arranged a Tribunal Against the Righteous Patriarch Diodoros of Jerusalem

Athanasios Zoitakis

The unlawful actions of the Patriarchate of Constantinople in Ukraine are certainly not the first incident of the Phanar’s non-canonical encroachment into the affairs of the Local Orthodox Churches. A clear example of an attempt to substitute an Ecumenical Council with the court of the Patriarch of Constantinople is found in the councils of the Greek-speaking Churches in 1993 and 1994.