The Roman Catholic “Anaconda Plan”: Challenges and Threats Facing Ukrainian Orthodoxy

Taras Melnick

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Orthodoxy Around the World

Rating: 8.6|Votes: 24

The Roman Catholic “Anaconda Plan”: Challenges and Threats Facing Ukrainian Orthodoxy

Taras Melnick

The implementation of the “OCU” project has become a serious milestone on the road to the Vatican’s success in its multi-layered and coordinated strategy in the creeping Catholicization of the Ukraine.

What we should know about the Asia Minor Catastrophe of 1922

John Sakelaris

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Church History

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What we should know about the Asia Minor Catastrophe of 1922

John Sakelaris

For many centuries a Greek Asia Minor was an important part of the Byzantine Empire, which was a largely Greek, Orthodox Christian entity that reached the peak of its success and prosperity in the early eleventh century, when it was the envy of the rest of the known world. Then, over the following four centuries, the Byzantine Greeks were attacked by the Western European Crusaders and by the Muslim Turks.

Pascha With the Russian Royal Family

Maria Litzman

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Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days

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Pascha With the Russian Royal Family

Maria Litzman

They endured a great deal, but in all periods of their lives we see that they unwaveringly followed the Lord and managed to preserve the light of faith. Tsar Nicholas’s diaries enlighten us as to how they spent this holy day.

“All those who burned people alive were under the dominion of the devil”—Pat. Kirill honors victims of May 2, 2014, Odessa (+ VIDEO)

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Church History

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“All those who burned people alive were under the dominion of the devil”—Pat. Kirill honors victims of May 2, 2014, Odessa (+ VIDEO)

“Today, remembering this terrible event, we pray for our brothers and sisters in Ukraine. We offer a memorial prayer for the 48 martyrs who were burned alive in Odessa. We pray that the Lord would bless the life of our fraternal Ukraine,” His Holiness said, expressing hope that the new leadership of the country would respect the people’s choice in favor of the canonical Church.

Russian Geographical Society to restore Orthodox chapel at Fort Ross

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Churches and Monasteries

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Russian Geographical Society to restore Orthodox chapel at Fort Ross

The trustees of the Russian Geographical Society (RGO) are planning to restore the Orthodox Holy Trinity Chapel on the territory of the Fort Ross national historical park in Jenner, California, Nikolai Tokarev, the head of oil company Transneft stated at a meeting of the RGO Board of Trustees yesterday.