How churches were lifted to safety in communist Bucharest

Mihaela Rodina

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Orthodoxy Around the World

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How churches were lifted to safety in communist Bucharest

Mihaela Rodina

A bit bruised but still standing, old Orthodox churches can be found around Bucharest, having escaped the frenzied demolition of the Romanian capital in the 1980s ordered by ex-communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu.

Avenue of Romanov emperors opened in Nizhny Novgorod monastery

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Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days

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Avenue of Romanov emperors opened in Nizhny Novgorod monastery

Yesterday, in the Ascension Pechersky Monastery in Nizhny Novgorod, the opening of the unique Avenue of Emperors of the House of Romanov was held, as part of the celebrations for the 120th anniversary of the founding of the Nizhny Novgorod branch of the Imperial Orthodox Palestinian Society (IOPS).

The Lost Altars of Sretensky Monastery

Nun Cornelia (Rees)

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Sretensky Monastery

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The Lost Altars of Sretensky Monastery

Nun Cornelia (Rees)

The regime ushered into Russia by Lenin and his minions had an overpowering destructive impetus—to tear down the old and build the new.

Russian Imperial House: revolution caused by profound spiritual crisis

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Church History

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Russian Imperial House: revolution caused by profound spiritual crisis

The head of the Russian Imperial House H.I.H. the Grand Duchess Maria of Russia recently released a statement on the 100th anniversary of the 1917 Russian Revolution, calling for an evaluation of the bloody events based on the “system of spiritual and moral values that took shape during the long course of Russian history” and stating that the main cause of the revolution was a “profound spiritual crisis.”

Our country paid for the revolution with millions of lives—Met. Hilarion

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Church History

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Our country paid for the revolution with millions of lives—Met. Hilarion

The chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeyev) of Volokolamsk expressed his conviction that Russia would have achieved much greater success if it had developed not along a revolutionary, but an evolutionary path.