This is the main thing: “Our religion is founded on spiritual experience, seen and heard as surely as any physical fact in this world. Not theory, not philosophy, not human emotions, but experience.” —St. Nikolai Velimirovic I think that, for much...

A Christian primary school will welcome pupils for the first time after being forcibly converted into an Islamic State military base for four years.

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Fr. Alexander Schmemann famously said that sacraments do not make things into something else so much as they reveal things to be what they are. We hear this in St. Basil’s Liturgy when we ask God to “show” the bread and wine to be the Body and Blo...

On 15th September 2019, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia celebrated the Liturgy at the Church of St. Olga, Equal-to-the-Apostles, Patriarchal metochion in Ostankino, Moscow. Speaking at a brotherly repast which followed the d...

Believe it or not, I am sometimes asked the question “Can a Christian be demon-possessed?” Not often, admittedly, since our culture declares that demons do not exist, and that anyone who imagines that demons do in fact exist should probably be loc...

Basilica News Agency – 18/9/19

‘If we think of God when we are in trouble, suffering, illness and ask for His help, then He helps us to transform the cross of suffering into victory through hope,’ underscored the Patriarch of Romania on Sunday.

SVOTS – 18/9/19

Yes, I want to support St. Vladimir’s Seminary!

Our Lord has commanded us to visit the sick (Mt. 25:36) and those who suffer (Jas. 1:27). But what happens, exactly, when we do?

Our beloved, newly-departed Fr. Steven Belonick (+Aug 7, ...
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Church of Serbia – 18/9/19

Forthcoming Celebrations in the Serbian Diocese of Eastern America.

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Church of Serbia – 18/9/19

The Feast day of the Beheading of Saint John the Baptist, the day when Serbian Patriarch Pavle was born in 1914, was prayerfully celebrated in the church of Holy Apostles Peter and Paul in Kucanci on 11 September 2019.

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Official website of the Synod of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia – 18/9/19

The Dean of the Central Deanery of the Diocese of Australia and New Zealand performs a moleben for the shipment of humanitarian aid to Russia

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