Материалы 8 января 2015 г.

Назвался христианином — полезай в кузов послушания Христу. Иначе тебя поработит твой внутренний Ирод, твой ветхий человек.

Наша вера открывает нам, что наша земля — самая важная планета во вселенной.

Допрос немолодой монахини продолжался шестнадцать суток. В течение этого времени ей не разрешали спать, не разрешали даже садиться.

Какой самый главный вопрос в жизни человека? Это вопрос об одиночестве, причем не столько житейском, сколько бытийном: зачем я пришел в этот мир и кому это нужно? Наверное, с каждым хотя бы раз в жизни такое случалось, когда этот главный вопрос приходил на ум. И с этого дня уже не было покоя.

Самое же известное и яркое предсказание о рождении Спасителя, сделанное пророком Исайей, звучит так: «Сам Господь даст вам знамение: се, Дева во чреве приимет и родит Сына, и нарекут имя Ему: Еммануил»

Orthodox Christian communities around the world began their Christmas celebrations on Tuesday, with Jan. 6 marking the start of Christmas Eve for much of the Eastern Christian world.

Earlier the Latvian president Andris Berzins more than once stated that the Orthodox Christmas should become a legal holiday in Latvia.

On Saturday, January 3, volunteers of the “Warriors of Life” pro-life movement held a rally near the Mariinskaya municipal hospital on the Liteiny Avenue of St. Petersburg.

The future Patriarch Ilia II (birth name: Irakli Georgievich Ghudushauri-Shiolashvili) was born on January 4, 1933, in the city of Vladikavkaz (now the capital of the autonomous republic of North Ossetia in SW Russia).

Having cleansed the mind, grief makes it capable of understanding the mysteries of being that are inaccessible to philistines.

In just two months, from August to October, nearly 200 Christian churches were destroyed in Nigeria by the Islamic organization Boko Haram and its Muslim allies, after their capture of towns and villages in the north-eastern states of Borno and Adamawa.

A priest and a witness say masked gunmen in central Libya have kidnapped 20 Coptic Christians from Egypt.

About 1,000 Armenians living in Abu Dhabi are thrilled to have their own church, and it is one that has been designed according to their traditions and architectural style.

It was an attack of unreasoning rage and unrelenting hatred on one of the world’s greatest symbols of love and peace, life and hope.

Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu promised on Saturday at a meeting with representatives of religious minority groups to allow the construction of a church in İstanbul's Yeşilköy neighborhood for the Syriac Orthodox community, a promise first voiced by the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) six years ago in the lead-up to local elections in 2009.