By St. Dimitri of Rostov The great wonder-worker, swift helper of those in need, and fervent intercessor before God, Christ’s holy hierarch Nicholas, was born in Patara, a city in the province of Lycia. His parents were honourable, well-born, wealthy folk and were Orthodox. Nicholas’ father was named Theophanes and his mother Nonna. Dwelling together in lawful wedlock, they were adorned with every virtue. …

LAW BEING PREPARED IN GREECE DECLARING OFFENSIVE CERTAIN “EXPRESSIONS” FROM THE GOSPEL Athens, December 1, 2013 Metropolitan Nicholas of Fthiotida, one of leading Hierarchs of the Church of Greece, has spoken about a new bill of the Greek government banning the reading of certain “offensive” stories from the Gospel, introducing responsibility for patriotism, and legalizing same-sex “marriages”. The Greek government …

Cairo, November 9, 2013 Copts will be able to build their churches in Egypt freely and will not have to wait a long time for the president’s permit. The rule was passed last week in Cairo by the Committee of 50, the assembly which edits alterations of the constitution adopted by Islamists in 2012, reports Pravoslavie.by. The matter of churches …

An open letter to European Union Representative, Thomas Hammarberg About a week and a half ago, one of Georgia’s largest newspapers, Kviris Palitra (“The Weekly Pallet”) published an open letter from the Georgian intelligentsia to the special representative of the European Union to Georgia, Thomas Hammarberg. The letter entitled “Respect Our Traditions!” was signed by such literary giants as Chabua Ameradzhibi and Rezo Amashukeli, the …

RUSSIA DENOUNCED BY EURO-SOCIALISTS FOR PROHIBITING PROMOTION OF HOMOSEXUALITY AMONG MINORS Moscow, February 1, 2013   An attempt by Russia to protect the nation’s youth from homosexual exploitation has provoked threatening language from a homosexual German minister and warnings from the European Union, according to local and international media. The eurocrats’ ire has been provoked by a new law recently …

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpkTDZjFeGg] These last few days have been a rather interesting one for the conflict in Syria. A conflict that we should cite has run a course of some 3 years, which initially was presented to the world by America, Israel and certain Gulf Arab and European countries as a popular uprising against Bashar Al-Assad’s regime that would herald democracy, freedom …

Dmitry MININ | Thursday, May 30, 2013, 13:20 Beijing What does the legalization of single-sex «marriages» in France, which even such desperate acts as Dominique Venner’s suicide in the Cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris have been unable to stop, have in common with the civil war in Syria? The common factor is that in both cases we can see …

The following articles are the only indications at present which we have regarding developments with the abducted hierarchs. Of course it seems to most of us, that they have been assassinated and the Western media in particular has been quite silent on the matter. It seems that sweeping the matter under the carpet is preferable, and so to divert attention …

OVER 60 CHURCHES AND MONASTERIES DESTROYED IN SYRIA Moscow, November 23, 2013 Militants in Syria have destroyed over 60 Christian churches and monasteries, and more than 70 thousand Orthodox residents of Homs, and more than a half the Christians of Aleppo have left their homes, reports Interfax. These statistics was given by the ambassador of Syria to Russia Riad Haddad …