OrthoChristian.com, the English-language side of the site Pravoslavie.ru, reported that Igumen Pankraty, the Abbot of the great Valaam Monastery, ordered his monks to receive the COVID-19 vaccine or be kicked out of the monastery with zero means of support. The translation in English reads as follows: All brothers prepare for a full vaccination. The first […]
The IRS is at it again. Remember back in the bad old days of Obama, how the IRS delayed granting tax-exempt status to pro-Christian-value, conservative or Christian organizations? Remember how there was an investigation that found that the IRS was discriminating against such people? It looks like the IRS thinks you forgot, and they are […]
The Roman Catholic experience in the United States of America has, for about the last century, relied heavily on an alliance with the American Democrat Party. Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone talks about this in a recent piece he wrote: The history of Catholic immigrants to the United States and their descendants is exemplary of the […]
Take a look at this video. You will see what is lacking in the American military more and more each day as the commanders get swept up in racism and wokeness, instead of the belief in God that the founders of our nation once had. Seeing this, one can simultaneously rejoice for the Russian people, […]
“I trust the science.” American popular political culture is replete with short sound-bite statements like this one. They are deceptive and dangerous, because the subtly polarize large groups of the population to adopt views they probably never would accept if presented directly. For example, if a priest in the Orthodox Church were to tell his […]
This story is one of those that has always been perfectly obvious to me, living in Moscow, Russia, but, what with the news streams from around the world so focused this last year on the US, Donald Trump and COVID-19, this very visceral trend sort of got ignored. This trend is the extreme level of […]
In the Orthodox Christian world, today marked Great and Holy Wednesday in the Passion Week, or Holy Week as many call it. It is the last day of the first half of Holy Week, which marks our Lord’s excoriation of the Pharisees and is the time when the sentiment of the crowd which hailed Jesus’ […]
Justin Welby has admitted that he made a number of mistakes on the closure of churches during the first lockdown. He says he was "too risk-averse" on keeping churches available for individual prayer, among other issues.
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Police interrupted a Good Friday church service, threatening worshipers with £200 fines for breaking Covid rules. Stood behind the lectern, one officer said that the service was "unlawful", adding: "You need to go home."
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Nicola Sturgeon acted outside of her constitutional powers by closing churches, a Scottish court heard today. Ministers believe that the Government should not have challenged the manner in which beliefs are expressed.
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