Rating: 7.7|Votes: 7

Church bells to ring in Moldova for victims of Stalinist deportations

Church bells will ring out in Moldova tomorrow in memory of the victims of the 1949 wave of Stalinist deportations.

Rating: 7.8|Votes: 6

Book of Kells: History of world’s most famous medieval manuscript rewritten after dramatic new research

David Keys

Lavishly illustrated 1,200-year-old copy of Gospels previously thought to have been thought to have been created as one book

Rating: 9.8|Votes: 27

The Adventures of Benya in Shanghai, in the Jungles, and on the Ocean

St. John of Shanghai and the history of the Russian Diaspora

Olga Rozhneva

Here is the story of Vladyka John’s spiritual son and alter server—Benjamin Vasilievich Vorobiev.

Rating: 10|Votes: 47

An Altar Server of St. John of Shanghai

Olga Rozhneva, Nicholai Lukianov

Below we offer our readers the story of Nicholai Andreevich Lukianov, an altar server of St. John, who speaks about his family and how he met the holy hierarch.

Rating: 10|Votes: 20

The Life, Tears and Love of Ekaterina Gumeniuk: Stories of the Russian Diaspora

Olga Rozhneva

The horrifying whirlwind of change blew her family from Harbin, China, to Tianjin, then Hong Kong, then further: to Brazil and finally California. In several nations, three continents, and everywhere was the bitter bread of exile, foreign languages and traditions, alien religions.