THE TAXATION OF CHURCH PROPERTY IN GREECE
The Church Is A Natural Barrier by Spyros Bazina March 18, 2010 Like most publicly debated issues in our country, so the issue of taxation of church property is at best a superficial subject of debate and at worst a misleading subject of debat Saint Cyril of New Lake was born into a pious family. The Lord marked him as one of the chosen even before he was born. Cyril's mother was praying in church during the Divine Liturgy, and the infant in her womb cried out, "Holy, Holy, Holy, LordCELEBRATING CHRISTMAS IN THE SHEPHERDS' FIELDS OF BEIT SAHOUR
Paul Calvert December 25, 2010 Beit Sahour lies to the east of Bethlehem and south-east of Jerusalem. The area is full of historical and biblical sites of significance. Ruins from Roman, Byzantine, Islamic and Crusader times can be found throughoPAPA DIMITRI GAGASTATHIS: LIFE AND TEACHINGS
Fr. Dimitrios was born in the village of Platanos in the prefecture of Trikala, Greece, on August 1, 1902. His parents Chrerstos and Catherine Gagastathis were pious men. On April 10, 1921, he was drafted into the army in Asia Minor. He also served iTHE FEELING OF FEAR IN CHINESE SOCIETY
By Fr Jonah Mourtos "The people who are in darkness and under the shadow of death." By living in Taiwan during the founding of the Orthodox Church there, my love for the Chinese people has deepened. I had this feeling as a universityTWO WONDROUS MIRACLES OF ST. JOHN THE FORERUNNER IN THE LIFE OF ELDER ISAAC OF DIONYSIOU
1. The Miraculous Deliverance To strugglers who are purified and sanctified by monastic asceticism, God gives wonderful gifts, great signs of His love. Fr. Isaac (+ 1932) of Dionysiou Monastery was not lacking in these gifts of the living preseSATANIC OR RITUALISTIC CRIME AND MURDER
[What I like about the article below is that it brings up the very real facts about Satanic crimes and murders. These details are often ignored in todays media. Often we pick up our newspapers or watch the news and hear about a missing child or a griELDER EPHRAIM OF VATOPAIDI RADIO INTERVIEW
The Abbot of Vatopaidi Monastery, Archimandrite Ephraim, spoke on the radio programme “Η Γκίζα κάπου αλλού” (Giza somewhere else) of ΣΚΑΪ (SAN INTERVIEW WITH AN ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN CHINESE
In November 2008 Vasily Romanov, an Orthodox Christian Chinese from Harbin, was directed to the Belgorod Orthodox Theological Seminary. The aim of his coming consisted in studying Orthodox Christian culture and the Russian language. From the very beg St. Antonie the Anchorite, otherwise known as St. Anthony the Hesychast (Feast Day - November 23) By Hieromonk Ioanichie Bălan There are numerous Romanian hermits with a saintly life who lived throughout the centuries in the old forests and th