By Nick Stamatakis
I received this interesting biography of Fr. Alex Karloutsos almost the same time it was published two days ago by its author, Matthew Namee, and many others. Matthew Namee (who operates the specialty website orthodoxhistory.org) has given...
EDITOR'S NOTE: Karloutsos and the "Archons of Disaster" did everything they could to elect their "Man" as a Patriarch of Bulgaria, BUT THEY FAILED MISERABLY. They now have to swallow Patriarch Daniel protesting to the American Ambassador in Sofia...
EDITOR'S NOTE (Nick Stamatakis). Our title says it all. The Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC), an autonomous Church under the Moscow Patriarchate, was banned after the adoption of the infamous law 8371 from Verkhovna Rada, the country's parliament. We are...
EDITOR'S NOTE (Nick Stamatakis): Turkey announced that it will not allow any more celebrations at Panagia Soumela of Pontos on August 15. PERIOD. (Below you can read the news in English and Greek). This is the latest blow to the...
EDITOR'S NOTE. As the Phanar sees that the Ukraine project reached the end of the road in a big catastrophe for its interests, they are trying every trick available to get the UOC under Met.Onufriy under their unholy control. ...
PHOTO: Dormition of the Theotokos, by El Greco, Ermoupolis, Syros
By Maximos (Lavreotes), Peter House, Cambridge, UK
In Christian antiquity, only the term "Koimisis" (Dormition) of the Theotokos was known. With this term, the first Christians alluded to the death of...
EDITOR'S NOTE: Agni Parthene (Greek: Ἁγνὴ Παρθένε), rendered "O Virgin Pure" or "O Pure Virgin", is a Greek Marian hymn composed by St. Nectarios of Aegina in the late 19th century, first published in print in his Theotokarion (Θεοτοκάριον, ἤτοι προσευχητάριον μικρόν) in 1905. In Orthodox churches, it is considered a paraliturgical hymn and therefore...
EDITOR'S NOTE (Nick Stamatakis). Turkey announced that it will not allow a celebration at Panagia Soumela of Pontos tomorrow, August 15. A liturgy will be allowed on August 23.
The historic Panagia Soumela Monastery in Pontos was closed in 1923...
source - americangreatness.com
The Serbian tennis great used his moment of triumph to defy the International Olympic Committee’s official secularism.
By Spencer Neale
No bureaucrat at the IOC was going to steal this performance from Novak Djokovic.
Teary-eyed, drenched in sweat, grateful, sprawled...
EDITOR'S NOTE (Nick Stamatakis). Bartholomew recently talked to many heads of Orthodox Churches (Patriarch of Antioch, AB of Cyprus, Patriarch of Bulgaria, to mention a few), and none of them agreed on his policies in Ukraine. Instead, ALL show...
