Jul 30, 2012

The remarkable missionary outreach into sub-Saharan Africa has turned the Patriarchate of Alexandria into one of the fastest growing and most actively evangelizing churches in the world.

Jul 28, 2012

The Way, through tests, introspection, and suffering, is hard and has many pitfalls. There is a strong temptation to look for happiness and consolation right from the beginning...

Jul 27, 2012

Beware of temptations from this world and from worldly people; beware of hidden inner temptations that come from the spirit of indifference and carelessness in prayer, from the waning of Christian love.

Jul 27, 2012

The Russian Orthodox Church of the Holy Trinity in Antarctica.

Jul 27, 2012

A significant gap exists in the social service 'safety nets'...

Jul 25, 2012

Who can save us?

Jul 22, 2012

Open only during the summer months, a restaurant is created inside a vaulted limestone cave, looking outwards toward the sea.

Jul 14, 2012

This is not progress.

Jul 13, 2012

(ANSAmed) ANKARA, JULY 12 — The Mongolians failed to destroy it 700 years ago despite the massacre of 40 monks and 400 Christians. Yet the existence of the oldest functioning Christian monastery in the world, the fifth century Mor Gabriel Monastery in the Tur Abdin plane (“the mountain of God’s servants”) near the Turkish-Syrian border, is at risk after...

Jul 10, 2012