Last week while glancing through the Indian Express News Paper at the Mahatma Gandhi University Library, I came across an article titled “ From Russia , With Mixed Feelings” by Shevlin Sebastian dated 4/3/2010. The article explains the life of an Indian Jesuit Priest Fr Paul Chemprathy,who have been serving in Russia for quite [...]
Talk given at a conference sponsored by the Northern California Brotherhood of Orthodox Clergy and held at the Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church in Sacramento, California, October 21, 2006 .
1. WHY PREACH THE GOSPEL
The theme of today’s conference, “Preaching the Gospel of Christ in the Modern [...]
A FORMER Wall Street broker has swapped Manhattan for a monastery in Bulgaria to become an Orthodox monk.
Hristo Mishkov, 32, had a successful career as a broker on the Nasdaq stock exchange in New York until he decided to give it all up to return to his native Bulgaria.
Exchanging tailored suits and expensive shoes for [...]
Throughout history the Vatican has asserted it power through secular armies, but none so recent during the invasion of Africa by Italian forces in 1935.
Why would the Vatican be so interested in Ethiopia?
Ethiopia, with its long, rich history of Judaism and Christianity, claimed to possess the one artifact most desired by all the major religions, [...]
BY JULIA GORIN
22/02/2010
Catholic Church, looking for a bulwark against communism, supported what became genocidal regime of Nazi satellite Croatia.
The controversy over the canonization of Pope Pius XII concerns whether he spoke out enough against the slaughter of Jews during World War II. But that question is a red herring when trying to grasp the [...]
Posted by Rev. Gregory Jensen
Like many, my first encounter with Orthodox theology was intoxicating. Here, finally, in the works of thinkers such as Vladimir Lossky, John Meyendorf and Alexander Schmemann and others I found an intellectually rigorous approach to theology that was biblical and patristic in its sources, mystical in its orientation and beautiful in [...]
Preachers Institute Article
By St. John Chrysostom
St. John was the Archbishop of Constantinople during the fourth century. He was fearless when denouncing sin in high places, and was a prolific writer, and bold preacher, unafraid to hit the topical issues of the day squarely between the eyes with all the subtlety of a ball peen [...]
A first approach to the indigenous Orthodox Saints and Martyrs of the Ancient Church who lived and who propagated the Faith in the British Isles and Ireland during the first millennium of Christianity and prior to the Great Schism is being attempted in our website in our desire to inform our readers, who may [...]
The “Scandinavian countries[1],” are usually thought of as being Lutheran, and this holds true when speaking of the nation of Finland, which has just over 80%[2] of its inhabitants professing the Lutheran faith. It usually comes as no surprise that Lutheranism is an official state religion. What often does come as a surprise [...]
Interview with His Eminence Metropolitan Abba Seraphim of of Glastonbury- Primate of British Orthodox Church (Under the Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate)
Interviewed by George Alexander on 18 January 2010 at Cochin, Kerala, India during the OBL Forum Delegation Meeting with Metropolitan Abba Seraphim.
British Orthodox Church
The British Orthodox Church is a local church, anxious to bring the Orthodox [...]
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