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[Coming to Orthodoxy]

Interview with fr. Damascene (Christensen), from the Monastery of St. Herman of Alaska in Platina, California

nun Kornilia (Rees)

On Wednesday, the fourth day of the annual Nativity readings began the conference section dedicated to the «Orthodox understanding of creation of the world». One of the speakers was an Orthodox hieromonk, Fr. Damascene (Christensen), an American from the Monastery of St. Herman of Alaska in Platina, California, which belongs to the Serbian Orthodox Diocese of Western America. This monastery is well known in Russia as the home of Fr. Seraphim Rose, its founder, and Fr. Damascene is a member of the Brotherhood from the time of Fr. Seraphim’s repose. He is the author Fr. Seraphim’s biography (due to appear in a new Russian version this year under the title Father Seraphim Rose: His Life and Works), and is something of expert on Fr. Seraphim’s Life and writings in general.

[Orthodoxy Today]

What does a russian student believe in?

Vladimir Truchin

At the same time the question of beliefs of modern Russian students is far from boring. It is not rhetorical either. While not so long ago atheism seemed to dominate the population, nowadays any student is free to choose any religion one fancies.

[Orthodoxy Today]

Kosovo Serbs: Blood Flows, Plans Stall

Aleksandar Mitic

The brutal murder of two Serb young men and the wounding of two others on 27 August in southern Kosovo has highlighted the lack of progress in decentralizing the province, a process seen by Kosovo Serbs as key for their survival in the Albanian-dominated province.

[Orthodoxy Today]

Message of His Holiness Patriarch Alexy of Moscow and all Russia on the ocassion of the 60-th anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War

One past unites us, and we must be worthy of the selfless exploits of our fathers and grandfathers in the years of the war. We must not forget what the cost of our Great Victory was, and that we won it fighting shoulder to shoulder, so that our children and grandchildren lived in peace and friendship.

[Orthodoxy Today]

St. Nicholas’ Watchful Eye

Svetlana Khorkina

The heroic achievement of the navigator Albanov who crossed the distance of approximately 420 km, walking on drifting ice to Franz-Josef land, added a glorious page to the history of Russian polar research. This journey had a great scientific significance, and the story itself was well covered in specialized and popular scientific literature of the Soviet period. A famous Russian writer Veniamin Kaverin created the character of navigator Klimov in his novel «Two Captains» with Albanov as his prototype. However the heroic exploits of the navigator is not only the result of his personal courage, but also another evidence of St. Nicholas’ help to «those at sea and travelling».

[Theology]

DIVIDE AND RULE – THE ANCIENT PRINCIPLE

According to INTERFAX Agency, 407 people have been killed in Moscow in the past several years as a result of terrorist acts. The tragedy in Beslan took away between 338 and 450 lives, including children’s, casualties in Northern Osetia total 1221 people. Not to mention the number of lives wrecked by the tragedies , tears shed and hopes lost. One cannot measure all the pain in the souls of those who have lost their family and friends forever. Witnessing the events and meeting the participants we often hear: ‘Why?’ or ‘What did my nine-year-old do to deserve it? Why did I have to collect her body in pieces after the explosion of the metro car? I have never been interested in dirty political games, black market or oil wars. I love my job. I worshipped my wife and daughter who I have lost…Why?’

[Orthodoxy Today]

Orthodoxy is in our blood

Hegumen Josaf (Peretiatko), a monk of the St. Trinity monastery in Kiev, spent seven months in the military conflict region in Iraq. In January 2005 Father Josaf took part in the 13th International Project of Christmas Educational Readings in Moscow and courteously agreed to meet our correspondent.

[Orthodoxy Today]

Well-paid defense of their rights

Oleg Popov

Long ago the time when Russian dissidents and human rights activists had indulged in non-censored gratuitous “social” activities became a thing of the past. They used to follow the principle “I can not be silent!” (Leo Tolstoy). At that time they could be imprisoned for it; at the best they could be deported abroad. Now these activities yet traditionally called defense of human rights are not only non-punishable but even well-paid.

[Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days ]

The Christmas Fast

The Christmas Fast began. It anticipates Christmas 40 days before and is also called St. Philip’s Fast because November, 27 is a day of memory of Apostle Philip. The Christmas Fast was established in order to clear ourselves with penance, prayers and fasting to meet reverentially the Son of the God and to sacrifice our pure hearts and our wish to follow His teaching.

[Orthodoxy Today]

Human Rights Watch as a Political Instrument of Liberal Cosmopolitan Elite of the United States of America

Oleg Popov

In 1975 at the summit of the heads of European states, the USA and Canada in Helsinki, an accord which is well known as the Helsinki Agreement was signed. The states of Eastern Europe including the USSR were recognized as “legal”. In exchange for this “concession” from NATO, Soviet leaders agreed to include into this accord a regulation which imposed responsibility of all these states to observe human rights as prescribed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

[Church History]

Indulgences in the history of the Greek Church

Sergei Govorun

In the 16th—18th centuries the Greek Church, even though limited in its contacts with the outer world to the borders of the Ottoman Empire, came under a great influence of Western Christianity—greater than did the Russian Church. Here Catholic propaganda worked more effectively, especially with the foundation in 1622 of the Sacred Congregation of the Propaganda of the Faith, for both Greek scholars and theologians had increasing contacts with the West and most of them studied there.

[Orthodoxy Today]

About our young people: with pain in the heart

Vadim Venediktov

After adoption of the Constitution of the Russian Federation which enforced deideologization of society our students found themselves in a very tricky situation: no precise guiding lines. And not every one of young people is capable to make independently the path of reason in search of the Truth, find and gain It.

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