"What is happening in Gaza is a new Nakba and a policy of ethnic cleansing.”
+ Archbishop Atallah Hanna of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem
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90,000 Christians were expelled during the creation of the Jewish state of Israel.
The largest mass displacement of Christians in the history of the Arab world.
And it was done by Jews, not Muslims.
Ukrainian Orthodox Monk killed by Russian drone strike at Kherson Monastery. The monk’s name was Moses.
Four other monks were wounded but survived. They received Holy Communion for healing, posted by the Kherson Eparchy. Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy.
On average one parish of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church is seized every day in Ukraine since the war began. Data from the State Service of Ukraine for Ethnopolitics & Freedom of Conscience.
It is a war against Christ’s Church. They throw tear gas at clergy and parishioners.
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ROCOR Synod responds to upcoming award ceremomy for Zelensky in U.S.
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“What am I supposed to do with a success that does not conquer death? Let all the failures come, just as long as death is conquered and this failed life of mine overflows even now with eternity.”
- Elder Vasileios of Iveron
“The frequent outward and inward resemblance of children to their parents reminds us of our inward resemblance to God.”
+ St. John of Kronstadt
Serbian police surround Orthodox Christians in Belgrade to prevent them from counter protesting a LGBT pride event.
“I love Orthodoxy because it’s anti-everything else.” What happens when it becomes anti-you?
+ Fr. Turbo Qualls
Elder Dositheos speaks about an unknown elder who prayed to God out of love to cure cancer. God responded, “three times I sent you but you did not keep it!” meaning there have been three people in history who would have cured cancer in their life but all were killed in abortion.
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“The Orthodox East has always been alien to Western legalism, and original sin was viewed primarily as a corruption of nature, not as a sin of which all people are guilty.”
- Dogmatic Theology: A Course of Lectures, Archimandrite Alipy (Kastalsky-Borozdin), Archimandrite Isaiah (Belov), Holy Trinity-St. Sergius Lavra Publishing House
The feast day of Orthodox Saints are commonly the day of their repose; simply because it’s actually not their death it’s their heavenly birthday.