Two Christian filmmakers will appear before the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Paul Tuesday to challenge Minnesota state law which they say illegally forces them to produce and create films expressing messages that contradict their core beliefs. Telescope Media Group owners Carl and Angel Larsen have already been threatened with hefty fines and […]
UK Court Rules Student can be Expelled for Quoting Bible on Facebook
Remember when England was a country of Christians? Do you think it can’t happen here? A Christian student who was expelled from university after posting on Facebook in support of Biblical teaching on marriage and sexual ethics has today lost his case in a judicial review of the university’s decision. Felix Ngole was studying for […]
Uniate Clergy Physically Attack Orthodox in Kolomyia, Ukraine
Parish rector Fr. Vasily Kobelsky noted that the riots had begun the previous Sunday, when a Uniate priest threatened the Orthodox faithful with a Kalashnikov gun. The Ivano-Frankivsk Diocese of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church has published a video showing clergy of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church brutally beating women and other Orthodox believers outside the […]
Albanian Ministry of Culture Hands Over Orthodox Church to Catholics for Mass
The Holy Synod of the Albanian Orthodox Church released a statement on Saturday regarding an incident that occurred the today before with an Orthodox church in the southern Albanian village of Labovë. As the hierarchs learned only through a Facebook post, the Albanian Ministry of Culture gave the famous Dormition Church over to a group […]
A Century of Ghastly Communist Sadism
by A. Barton Hinkle “Let there be floods of blood,” declared Krasnaia gazeta, the official newspaper of the Red Army in 1918. From the enemies of the revolution, there should be “more blood, as much as possible.” A few months before, the Bolsheviks had seized power from the provisional government that had been installed in […]
Want Aid in Syria? Convert to Evangelicalism
This is shameful. Isn’t this how the Roman Catholic Church gained a foothold with the Unia in the Middle East? Evangelical Christians from the United States and other areas of the world are helping “destroy” the historic Antioch Church in Syria by offering poor, vulnerable orthodox Christians aid and assistance if they “convert” and start […]
The Church of England Now has No Place for Believers in the Traditional Family
by Jane Kelly Being a member of the Church of England is to belong to a strange club, or so it seems to me. All the rules have changed since I joined as an infant, or rather since my parents imposed their religion onto me (something which is now discouraged). There is no escape from […]
Homofascists Not Welcome
More from one of our heroes, Fr. Josiah Trenham. Fr. Josiah Trenham, pastor of St. Andrew Orthodox Church in Riverside, Calif., delivered one of the more virulently anti-LGBT speeches at the World Congress of Families in Tblisi, Georgia, linking homosexuality to predatory and promiscuous behavior, saying that, “There’s a long and consistent history of unusual bathroom […]
We Have Been Warned
by Rod Dreher Nice Church – it would be a shame of something happened to it… Here in the flood zone of south Louisiana, you would be hard-pressed to find a single church or Christian organization (like the school community of which I’m a part) that isn’t in some way helping flood victims. I’m not […]
Underground Church – An Interview by Adam Roberts
As a guest on Go Forth, with Adam Roberts, I had the chance to be interviewed by Adam about Orthodoxy in the United States, and Underground Church in dark times. Here are links to these interviews. Adams’ interview was enjoyable, he’s a great broadcast host, and Go Forth is a great podcast. I was honored to […]