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Debunking The Da Vinci Code

29 May 2006

The book bears a message sinister in the attempted cover-up of its real intent and foisted on unaware readers by appeals to half-truths and falsified historical events. When decoded, the message is a ...

Symbolism of Colors in Icon

25 May 2006

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Colour plays a special role in icons because it is a symbolic language which manifests the light that is inside objects and human faces rather than their colouring. The source of this light is ...

Orthodox Women’s day: women’s oppression in Church – myth or reality?

06 May 2006

Protodeacon Andrei Kuraev

Not many people today probably know that the Orthodox Church to what the traditional stereotype attributes oppression of a woman celebrates its own international mothers’ or women’s day. It falls on ...

His Eminence Metropolitan Laurus Answers Questions from Pravoslvie.ru

04 May 2006

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I was reared in a churchly atmosphere, in which the word "Russia" always had a great deal of meaning. On one hand, "Russia" is a concrete geographical expanse which is remembered ...

Father Ioann (Krestiankin)

05 February 2006

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Well-known Russian elder and a monk at Pskov's Monastery of the Caves, Ioann Krestyankin, died on Sunday at the age of 95.Archimandrite Ioann enjoyed wide popularity among believers in many ...

Why do we need icons?

21 November 2005

The Second Commandment expressly forbids images of anything, not only of God but of anything at all. We need to ask ourselves the question why this is the case

Morning Prayers

21 October 2005

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Having risen from sleep, before all else stand reverently as if before God Who seeth all things. Having made the sign of the cross, say: In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy ...

Evening Prayers

21 October 2005

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We are Going to Live in Paradise: Orthodoxy in Congo

20 October 2005

Road to Emmaus

An Orthodox missionary comes as a person and creates a community. He shows people that, “You and I are going to live in Paradise.” This is a real environment, a real community. He doesn’t say, ...

Holy Matrimony

20 October 2005

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The Image of the Most-holy Trinity, and, except in certain special cases (such as monasticism, for example), he is not intended by God to live alone, but in a family situation. Just as God blessed ...

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30 September

His Holiness Patriarch Kirill Contracted the Coronavirus

4th Plenary Session between ROC and Coptic Church Held

29 September

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28 September

Patriarch Kirill: The Church Prays for the Fraternal Strife to End as Soon as Possible

Besides intellectual instruction, young people also need prayer, Patriarch Daniel says as new academic year begins

27 September

The Synodal Residence in New York hosts the Council of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia

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26 September

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25 September

Epistle of the Council of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia

23 September

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