Rating: 9.5|Votes: 66

Christianity and Communism, Relics and Corpses, Truths and Half-Truths

Nun Cornelia (Rees)

After a number of media, mostly tabloid, picked up a story that President Putin supposedly equated communism with Christianity and Lenin’s embalmed but nevertheless decomposing remains with holy Christian relics, I was hoping to see an article somewhere discussing this sanely in either Russian or in English.

Rating: 9.2|Votes: 58

Serbian Church awards Greek naval officer for refusing to participate in bombing of Yugoslavia

Ritsoudis stated that he acted as his conscience demanded, because “the law of God is above all else.”

Georgia looking to introduce history of religion in schools

The government of Georgia is considering introducing courses on the history of religion in the nation’s schools.

Rating: 10|Votes: 3

Street renamed for Russian Met. Nikodim (Rotov) in Cyprus

2018 marks 40 years from the repose of the well-known hierarch of the 20th century Metropolitan Nikodim of Leningrad and Novgorod.

Rating: 9.7|Votes: 29

An Ancient Liturgical Tradition: The Babylonian Furnace Rite

Nicholai Bulchuk, Andrei Kotov

Only a handful of specialists now know about a liturgical rite called “the Furnace Act” practiced in Russia from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, and mentioned as early as the tenth century in Byzantium. It was a rite that was celebrated on the great feasts. With this rite also began the forefeast of the Nativity of Christ.