Conversation with Abbess Ines, head of the Holy Trinity Monastery in Guatemala
Abbess Ines (Ayau Garcia) – Abbess Ines is the head of the only Orthodox parish in Guatemala – the Monastery of the Holy and Life-Giving Trinity, the “Lavra of Mambre”, under the Patriarchate of Antioch. She comes from an influential and well known family [...]
Orthodoxy in Africa
Orthodox Christian Mission Center
One hundred and twenty Tanzanians in white wait to be received into the Holy Orthodox Church. Their odyssey has been a long one, beginning with the founding of the Orthodox Church in Tanzania almost fifty years ago, winding through the streams of African seekers, missionaries, and hierarchs to [...]
From the Convention of Orthodox Clergymen and Monks April 2009
Translated from Greek by WWW.OODEGR.COM
Those of us who by the Grace of God have been raised with the dogmas of piety and who follow in everything the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church, believe that:
The sole path to salvation of mankind [i] is [...]
Though prepared from the context of the western community,the article upholds strong Orthodox Christian values and morals.
“We must be ready every day to answer the influence of the world by the principles of a sound Christian upbringing.
This means that what a child learns at school must constantly be checked and corrected at home. We [...]
Hate the sin, not the sinner has been the teaching of all religions in the New Age because prayer and education and counseling should be the tools for correcting and rehabilitating the deviants. God blessed the procreation process by creating with a premonition of the bodies of the first parents as Adam and Eve, [...]
Following is a special article developed fro youth readers. The article has been developed from the Indian perspective. But any one interested can use it according to their convenience, place of origin, nationality, socio-economic conditions, careers etc
Category: (General Article)
India is growing economically, stock market is booming, variety of job opportunities are emerging, jobs [...]
I have been skimming over the messages on the topic of Holy Qurbono that is not delineated in the proper way; hence I am giving a detailed accounts basing on the bible. Disobedience that goes back to the period of timelessness is the cycle which dictate the course of history that perpetually command to [...]
Few have heard of St. John of San Francisco. Fewer have heard of St. John of Shanghai. Fewer still would not know that he is the same person. Having grown up in a culture that is increasingly oblivious to all things Christian, most people would not have ever heard his story. Until now.
St. John (Maximovitch) [...]
The Monk and the Wolf
In Kovilje Monastery, at the foot of the Javor mountains, there were once many monks, during the time of the Turks there was even a monastic school here. Today, in the recently renovated late 12th century monastery, there is only one monk who, as he says, learns from wolves…
Thirty kilometeres from [...]
The Archbishop of Canterbury Dr. Rowan D. Williams visited the Ecumenical Patriarchate for three days and had meetings with the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and the Committee on Inter-Christian Relations. He also visited the Theological School of Halki and attended the Divine Liturgy at the Patriarchal Cathedral of St. George. Below is a brief interview with [...]
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