| Against all the odds, and so many enemies, the Georgians have kept their Faith and Church intact. Polyphonic Georgian Church music has also been kept, giving services great beauty. As elsewhere in the Orthodox world, many people cross themselves in public transport, as their bus passes a church. However, the Church now faces a newer, more insidious threat. Many American sects, the Jehovah’s Witnesses in particular, are buying Orthodox souls with their dollars. Georgian priests feel obliged to remind their congregations that ours is the One True Church, and that modern sects promising financial gain are not to be trusted. That Western Europeans are turning back to Orthodoxy strengthens this important message, which is sometimes made difficult by the terrible poverty in which many people, particularly the refugees from Abkhazia, must live. Father Archil asked me to tell the people in North-West Europe about the people in South-East Europe. I hope I will not be the last English Orthodox to visit his church and its marvellous, wonder-working icon. Code for blog Since you are here… …we do have a small request. More and more people visit Orthodoxy and the World website. However, resources for editorial are scarce. In comparison to some mass media, we do not make paid subscription. It is our deepest belief that preaching Christ for money is wrong. Having said that, Pravmir provides daily articles from an autonomous news service, weekly wall newspaper for churches, lectorium, photos, videos, hosting and servers. Editors and translators work together towards one goal: to make our four websites possible - Pravmir.ru, Neinvalid.ru, Matrony.ru and Pravmir.com. Therefore our request for help is understandable. For example, 5 euros a month is it a lot or little? A cup of coffee? It is not that much for a family budget, but it is a significant amount for Pravmir. If everyone reading Pravmir could donate 5 euros a month, they would contribute greatly to our ability to spread the word of Christ, Orthodoxy, life " s purpose, family and society. |
| Earlier top clerics of the Russian Orthodox Church suggested that some unnamed anti-Christian forces had launched an attack on the Christian Faith, most notably with last year’s ‘punk prayer’ by the girls presenting themselves as the feminist punk band. Three members of the band were detained, tried and sentenced to two years each for aggravated hooliganism. The sentence caused a wave of protests, including a series of incidents when people desecrated icons and chopped down crosses in various regions of Russia. This prompted parliament to quickly prepare and start to consider a draft law on insulting believers’ feelings. The current draft suggests that aggravated vandalism should be punished with up to five years in prison. The State Duma promised to approve the bill before the end of the autumn session. Source: TV-Novosti Code for blog Since you are here… …we do have a small request. More and more people visit Orthodoxy and the World website. However, resources for editorial are scarce. In comparison to some mass media, we do not make paid subscription. It is our deepest belief that preaching Christ for money is wrong. Having said that, Pravmir provides daily articles from an autonomous news service, weekly wall newspaper for churches, lectorium, photos, videos, hosting and servers. Editors and translators work together towards one goal: to make our four websites possible - Pravmir.ru, Neinvalid.ru, Matrony.ru and Pravmir.com. Therefore our request for help is understandable. For example, 5 euros a month is it a lot or little? A cup of coffee? It is not that much for a family budget, but it is a significant amount for Pravmir. If everyone reading Pravmir could donate 5 euros a month, they would contribute greatly to our ability to spread the word of Christ, Orthodoxy, life " s purpose, family and society. Related articles Christmas Message of His Holiness Patriarch KIRILL of Moscow and All Russia Beloved in the Lord… Part two of two. Part one. Question: In the post-Soviet period, parallel structures of other Orthodox… |
| None of that proves that the verdict was a miscarriage of justice. But it does look distinctly fishy. By their own lights, of course, the Macedonian authorities are simply cracking down in various ways on an illegal, unregistered organisation. But then, requiring religious bodies to submit to licensing from the state, which can be denied on whim, is a notorious way of suppressing freedom of conscience. At some point, they will have to explain themselves to the European Union and also to the European Court of Human Rights, which is considering the legality of the Macedonian authorities’ refusal to register Archbishop Jovan’s church. Source: The Economist Tweet Donate Share Code for blog Theology by handcuffs admin July 16, 2013 IN A recent posting, I noted that the European Union had put forward some detailed ideas about how religious freedom should be fostered outside its borders; and also that it still gave its own 28 members lots of leeway in handling church-state relations. That is not just a ... Since you are here… …we do have a small request. More and more people visit Orthodoxy and the World website. However, resources for editorial are scarce. In comparison to some mass media, we do not make paid subscription. It is our deepest belief that preaching Christ for money is wrong. Having said that, Pravmir provides daily articles from an autonomous news service, weekly wall newspaper for churches, lectorium, photos, videos, hosting and servers. Editors and translators work together towards one goal: to make our four websites possible - Pravmir.ru, Neinvalid.ru, Matrony.ru and Pravmir.com. Therefore our request for help is understandable. For example, 5 euros a month is it a lot or little? A cup of coffee? It is not that much for a family budget, but it is a significant amount for Pravmir. If everyone reading Pravmir could donate 5 euros a month, they would contribute greatly to our ability to spread the word of Christ, Orthodoxy, life " s purpose, family and society. |
| The Pan-Orthodox Council has not been convened for over one thousand years and has been prepared for over half a century. According to approved regulations, all decisions at it should be adopted by consensus. Uncoordinated issues will not be included in the agenda and all draft documents that the forum is expected to adopt were published at the initiative of the Russian Church for advance examination. Council participants are supposed to discuss such issues as the relations of the Orthodox Church with the rest of the Christian world, fasting, marriage, church missions in the world today, and the guidance of Orthodox Christians in the diaspora. The future Council is not Ecumenical by its status. Unlike ancient Ecumenical Councils it is not meant to tackle issues of dogmatic nature or make any innovations in canonical arrangements or liturgical life. Code for blog Since you are here… …we do have a small request. More and more people visit Orthodoxy and the World website. However, resources for editorial are scarce. In comparison to some mass media, we do not make paid subscription. It is our deepest belief that preaching Christ for money is wrong. Having said that, Pravmir provides daily articles from an autonomous news service, weekly wall newspaper for churches, lectorium, photos, videos, hosting and servers. Editors and translators work together towards one goal: to make our four websites possible - Pravmir.ru, Neinvalid.ru, Matrony.ru and Pravmir.com. Therefore our request for help is understandable. For example, 5 euros a month is it a lot or little? A cup of coffee? It is not that much for a family budget, but it is a significant amount for Pravmir. If everyone reading Pravmir could donate 5 euros a month, they would contribute greatly to our ability to spread the word of Christ, Orthodoxy, life " s purpose, family and society. Related articles All our external ritual actions, using various objects (lamps, vestments, etc.) are meaningless unless we penetrate… Our bishops and clergy of every rank might find it salutary to ask themselves, ‘Whose feet… |
| In the Renaissance, magic, alchemy, and occultism once again burst into the realm of high culture and became considered acceptable ways of understanding the world. In response, the Western Church, awakened by the slap of the Reformation, replied with “witch hunts,” the Inquisition, and the endorsement of a mechanistic view of the world. The scientific world-view was supported by the Church, which was in dire need of an ally in the battle against the common enemy of occultism. The scientific revolution took place in Western Europe at the turn of the sixteenth to seventeenth centuries. Not in the age of atheism (the eighteenth century), nor in the age of the neglect of religious issues (the fifteenth), nor in the age of religious stability (the thirteenth), but rather science was born in the age of the Reformation and the Counter-Reformation, in the age of the great rise of religious tension in the life of Christian Europe. The Lesson of Eschatological Ethics To the extent that Christianity has been repressed from societal, cultural, and university life, the old shadows have begun to thicken once again. It again has become fashionable to merge all religions into one, involving Christians in pagan games. Most alarming of all is that discussions about religious pluralism and tolerance are once again being spoken with such steely vocal intonations that Christians have begun to feel themselves on the verge of new persecutions. This is yet another lesson of Christianity: the ability to live, build, and work even when you know your sanctuary will be destroyed. This is the lesson of eschatological ethics. We know that one day we will become completely estranged from the world of official and popular culture. We know that the horizon of human history is draped in darkness (the name of this darkness in Christian theology is the “kingdom of the Antichrist”). But this is no occasion for despair. Translated from Russian . Code for blog Since you are here… …we do have a small request. More and more people visit Orthodoxy and the World website. However, resources for editorial are scarce. In comparison to some mass media, we do not make paid subscription. It is our deepest belief that preaching Christ for money is wrong. |
| The CDC, the US health regulator, advises those who have already had the infection to get vaccinated against coronavirus “due to serious health risks associated with COVID-19 and the likelihood of reinfection”. Mayo Clinic, the authoritative American clinic, recommends that people get vaccinated no earlier than 90 days after being diagnosed with “coronavirus infection”. The time gap between the infection and vaccination is due to the fact that most of the patients have a fairly high antibody titer that provides protection against reinfection for three months. On the other hand, vaccination during this period may be ineffective since antibodies and other components of the immune system immediately neutralize the newly entered coronavirus elements without giving them the opportunity to fully “manifest themselves”. After the concentration of antibodies and possibly memory T cells decreases, the introduction of the vaccine antigen (the viral components) will trigger the development of the immune response de novo or almost de novo . How safe is it? It is difficult to say how safe the vaccine is after the disease: there are too little data, but experts are not particularly concerned on this account, at least, because people get vaccinated after other diseases, for example, flu. In this case, there are no side effects. During the third phase of clinical trials of the Pfizer/BioNTech mRNA vaccine, the drug was administered to 545 people, who had previously had COVID-19. No specific side effects were found in this group either. It is not known how effective the vaccine is for people who have already encountered the virus. This is rather good news: it means that these people did not stand out from other trial participants in any way, and, for example, they did not get COVID-19 more often than those people who have not had it. Translated by Julia Frolova Code for blog Since you are here… …we do have a small request. More and more people visit Orthodoxy and the World website. However, resources for editorial are scarce. In comparison to some mass media, we do not make paid subscription. It is our deepest belief that preaching Christ for money is wrong. |
| Russian Space Center Gets Own Priest MOSCOW, July 26 (RIA Novosti) – A Russian Orthodox priest has been assigned to an aerospace defense unit stationed at a space center in northern Russia, the Moscow Patriarchate said Friday. Archpriest Artemy Emke will be responsible for religious work with the unit’s personnel as deputy commander on religious issues at the Plesetsk space center, a church representative said. “Any military unit should have a priest to help believers among soldiers and officers, in line with the Russian Constitution, to follow their religious beliefs, take the sacrament, and participate in the life of the Orthodox Church,” said Sergei Privalov, head of the Russian Orthodox Church’s Department for Cooperation with the Military, Law Enforcement and the Security Services. “The work of a priest in the military aims at preventing hazing and suicides, and is intended to cultivate high moral and patriotic standards among the personnel,” Privalov added. He expressed hope that the appointment of 240 priests from four major religions (Orthodox Christianity, Islam, Judaism and Buddhism) as deputy commanders of military units would be completed in the near future. According to Privalov, 77 priests, including 74 Orthodox, 2 Muslim and one Buddhist have been assigned to military units so far. In July 2009, after a meeting with the heads of Russia’s main faiths, then-President Dmitry Medvedev supported a project to restore full-scale military priesthood, which had existed from the 18th century to the start of the Soviet era. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, two-thirds of the country’s armed forces personnel consider themselves religious. Some 83 percent of them are Orthodox Christians, about 8 percent are Muslims, and 9 percent represent other confessions. Source: RIA Novosti Code for blog Since you are here… …we do have a small request. More and more people visit Orthodoxy and the World website. However, resources for editorial are scarce. In comparison to some mass media, we do not make paid subscription. It is our deepest belief that preaching Christ for money is wrong. |
| Prayers for Deliverance from Coronavirus Epidemic to Be Held Weekly at the Chinese Metochion in Moscow Source: Foma (Russian) Photo: st-nicholas.ru A prayer service for deliverance from the coronavirus epidemic, which is spreading in different countries of the world, will be performed weekly at the Chinese Patriarchal Metochion in Moscow. Archpriest Igor Zuev, Rector of the metochion, stated that the services will take place at St. Nicholas Church in Golutvin. According to him, the services will be held weekly on Sundays after the Chinese Liturgy, at 9:15, until the situation improves. “Prayer singing and prayer for the health of God’s servants in the land of China will be performed during a destructive pestilence and a deadly ulcer,” said Father Igor, reports RIA news agency. The priest noted that prayers during various large-scale emergencies are a natural tradition for the Orthodox Church. Archpriest Igor Zuev said that before the revolution, it was common for believers during epidemics of cholera or plague to impose a multi-day fast on themselves, perform prayer services and hold religious processions with miraculous icons or to holy places. Father Igor recalled, prayers “during a fatal plague and a fatal ulcer” were performed, for example, in 2009 in the Voronezh Metropolis on the occasion of the flu epidemic. Speaking about the essence of prayer, the clergyman emphasized that “a prayer is not a panacea or magic.” “From the point of view of the Orthodox faith, death, illness and suffering are the result of human sin… Therefore, in prayers for health and getting rid of pestilence, it is imperative to ask God to forgive our sins,” the archpriest explained. Earlier the World Health Organization (WHO) recognized the outbreak of a new coronavirus as a public health emergency of international importance. Translated by pravmir.com Code for blog Since you are here… …we do have a small request. More and more people visit Orthodoxy and the World website. However, resources for editorial are scarce. In comparison to some mass media, we do not make paid subscription. It is our deepest belief that preaching Christ for money is wrong. |
| MP seeks to establish Orthodox Christianity as national Constitution basis Moscow, November 22, 2013 Priests during the religious procession in honor of the Appearance of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God, in St. Petersburg. Photo: RIA Novosti/Alexei Danichev Center left MP Yelena Mizulina, known for her pro-life stance and conflicts with leaders of the LGBT community, has suggested amending the constitution emphasizing the exclusive role of the Russian Orthodox Church. Mizulina said at the Friday session of the parliamentary group for the protection of Christian values, that the Russian constitution should include a preamble saying that “ Orthodox Christianity is the basis of national and cultural originality of Russia ”. The move gained support from other participants in the session who represented the majority caucus of United Russia and the Communist Party caucus. Currently the Constitution describes Russia as a secular state and protects freedom of conscience. Four religions – Christianity, Islam, Judaism and Buddhism are sometimes called ‘traditional’ in the mass media and politicians’ statements, but there is no legal basis for that. In 2012 nationalist lawmaker Sergey Baburin also suggested mentioning Christianity in Russia’s constitution. Baburin said the country could follow Georgia’s example and underline the Church’s role in the nation’s history while still protecting the equality and freedom of all beliefs. Back then, the move failed to gain sufficient support. According to a poll conducted by the Levada research center in late October this year, over 70 percent of Russian Federation citizens consider themselves Orthodox Christians. 44 percent of respondents hold the Russian Orthodox faith as the official religion of the country. 56 percent agreed that the Russian Orthodox Church played a major role in Russian history. Yelena Mizulina represents the moderate leftist party Fair Russia and chairs the Lower House’s Committee for Family Women and Children. Earlier this year the committee developed a concept of the national family policy that stressed the role of a traditional " nuclear family " and suggested strengthening it by supporting traditional religions. |
| Schismatics disrupted a divine service and seized an Orthodox church not far from Kiev Source: Interfax-religion Moscow, August 24, Interfax - The incident has happened at St. Vladimir Church in the village of Malye Dmitrovichi, the Obukhov District, the Kiev Region, Ukraine. Unidentified people rushed into the church during the liturgy, they called themselves representatives of the local self-defence. Priests of the self-proclaimed Kiev Patriarchate later joined them, press service of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church reports. “Swearing, they made the rector and parishioners stop the service and leave the church, the the church was closed. Militia arrived on parishioners’ call, but kept away from the incident and did not interfere when the service was disrupted,” the message further reads. The local community turned to the prosecutor’s office complaining on the intruders and law-enforcement officers. Code for blog Since you are here… …we do have a small request. More and more people visit Orthodoxy and the World website. However, resources for editorial are scarce. In comparison to some mass media, we do not make paid subscription. It is our deepest belief that preaching Christ for money is wrong. Having said that, Pravmir provides daily articles from an autonomous news service, weekly wall newspaper for churches, lectorium, photos, videos, hosting and servers. Editors and translators work together towards one goal: to make our four websites possible - Pravmir.ru, Neinvalid.ru, Matrony.ru and Pravmir.com. Therefore our request for help is understandable. For example, 5 euros a month is it a lot or little? A cup of coffee? It is not that much for a family budget, but it is a significant amount for Pravmir. If everyone reading Pravmir could donate 5 euros a month, they would contribute greatly to our ability to spread the word of Christ, Orthodoxy, life " s purpose, family and society. Also by this author Today " s Articles Most viewed articles Functionality is temporarily unavailable. Most popular authors Functionality is temporarily unavailable. © 2008-2024 Pravmir.com |
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