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Siberia, Russia, Singapore – what could they have in common? Only the faith and people who have once left their Motherland.

Perhaps today’s story of the healing of the blind man is especially important for us, for our generation. When the Savior walked near the blind man who was known throughout Jerusalem without asking him anything, not even about his faith, he passed by him and healed him. The blind man became a man who sees; the Pharisees began interrogating him, asking him who worked this great benefaction for him—something they themselves would never have been able to do.

When scholar and priest William Tyndale decided to translate the Bible into English in the 1520s, he set out on a dangerous journey that eventually led him to be burned at the stake.

In the case of the man born blind, all his life had been but a preparation for his meeting with Christ. Not only was his soul pure enough, refined by his lifelong handicap, to receive healing from the Lord, but also he confessed Him as the Son of God, thus making the works of God manifest in himself.

The cross procession was dedicated to 185th years since the birth of St John of Kronshtadt. The aim of the event was not only the restoration of spiritual traditions of pilgrimages to the shrines of the Russian north, but also to attract attention to the Sura Convent of St. John.

That’s the sobering conclusion of a recent piece in the American Conservative written by Andrew Doran, a former official at UNESCO and the State Department. While the article is ostensibly about how the war in Iraq became a war on Iraqi Christians, the lessons we failed to learn in Iraq are every bit as applicable, if not more so, in Syria.

Though many in the United States are largely unfamiliar with the Orthodox faith, it’s the second-largest Christian religion in the world, second only to Catholicism. It is the dominant religion in Russia and much of Eastern Europe and has a significant presence in some Middle Eastern countries.

As Orthodox priest Vasile Laiu gazes over the picturesque hills of eastern Romania, he prays they will be spared the shale gas wells and drilling rigs dotting some US landscapes.

Report documents strategy by Muslims to impose religious law on nation.

A gay pride parade scheduled for June 14-15 has drawn the ire of Bishop Anthimos who said he has collected 20,000 signatures against the “sinful” event who want it cancelled.

Metropolitan Savas of the Greek Orthodox Diocese of Pittsburgh has received an honorary doctorate from his alma mater, Colby College in Maine.

Christian Arabs who are Israeli citizens are getting some of their churches back