Prayer of supplication to the Great Martyr Tryphon for a garden. Most-glorious Martyr of Christ, and soldier of the heavenly King, Tryphon most-blessed, namesake of the eternal sustenance, who bravely confessed Christ upon the earth, and for this ever receives unfading blessedness in the Heavens, and with boldness stands before the throne of the three-sun […]
Archives for January 2013
Twitter Censors Black Pro-Lifers Blasting NAACP on Abortion
by Steven Ertelt A coalition of African-American pro-life activists have had their Twitter account suspended after firing off Tweets challenging the NAACP over its position favoring abortion. As LifeNews reported, the NAACP will host its 44th Image Awards Show to honor cultural and entertainment luminaries presenting the best face of black Americans. Leading black pro-life […]
Homosexual Marriage At The Dusk Of Liberty
by Fr. Hans Jacobse To define homosexual coupling as marriage violates natural law. It takes one male and one female to create a child and constitute a family. A male-to-male or female-to-female coupling is naturally sterile; biologically closed to the creation of new life (which is not the same thing as saying that either partner […]
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: We Didn’t Love Freedom Enough To Fight
Those ignorant of history are doomed to repeat it. “And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or […]
US Army Removes Crosses From Chapel
By Todd Starnes The US Army has forgotten that Christians have rights, too. The U.S. military reportedly ordered soldiers to remove a cross and a steeple from atop a chapel and to board up cross-shaped windows at a remote American forward operating base in Afghanistan. The removal of Christian symbols from the chapel at Forward […]
Orthodox Assembly of Bishops Remembers the 54+ Million Innocent Dead
Abortion isn’t health care because killing isn’t healing. (AOB) – Forty years ago the Supreme Court of the United States handed down a decision, known as Roe v. Wade, granting a “right” for women of the United States to terminate the lives of their children in the womb. This decision has resulted in some 54 […]
Paratrooper Priests Prepare For Duty
by Alina Lobzina A squad of Orthodox paratrooping priests is fully prepared to help the Russian army in conflict zones after a special training session held in March. For the first time, all priests currently serving with the airborne forces got together for some parachuting exercises and work discussions with their more experienced colleagues. “Many […]
Flying Chapels And Parachuting Priests!
Yes, I’d do it in a heartbeat. From the Russian Airborne Force Press-Service An Air-dropped church will be introduced in the Russian army. Airborne priests and flying churches are set to fortify Russian soldiers’ spirits. Now priests who serve in the Russian Army will have to learn basics of military training to deal with an […]
The West Has Betrayed Christianity, Russia Will Save It – Orthodox Church Official
Countries of the “Russian world” are capable of changing the globe within ten years, believes top cleric of the Russian Orthodox Church Vsevolod Chaplin. By the “Russian world” he means states with a historically strong tradition of Orthodox Christianity which, apart from Russia, include Ukraine, Belarus, Greece, Romania and several others. “Our Orthodox civilization may […]
On Those Orthodox Christians Who Support Abortion and Sodomy
by Fr. Thomas Hopko “In Orthodoxy, communicants in the sacramental mysteries are not only obliged to be steadfast in the Christian faith and perpetually repentant over their failures, they are also obliged to take full responsibility for the Church’s teachings and practices, and to be ready, at least in intention, to defend them unto death. […]