Category: RIA

Romanian nuns celebrate Easter among the skulls of their dead sisters as Orthodox Christians pack churches around the world

obl- May 6, 2013

By  ROSIE TAYLOR  - 5/5/13 Around 300million Orthodox Christians celebrated Easter Sunday  Nuns at the Pasarea monastery in Romania marked the holy event in room ... Read More

Orthodox Christian Holy Week 2013 – Snaps Around the World

obl- May 6, 2013

Holy Land: Scene from Holy Fire Syria: Aleppo Archbishop Mor Yuhanon Gregorios blessing the faithful, The pic was taken before his abduction by the terrorists ... Read More

Paschal Greetings from OCP Society

obl- May 4, 2013

5/5/13 Dear All Khristos voskres! On deystvitel’no voskres!!! Christ is Risen, He is Truly Risen Indeed!!! On behalf of the Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE Society, i ... Read More

Paschal Greetings from OCP Society

obl- May 4, 2013

5/5/13 Dear All Khristos voskres! On deystvitel’no voskres!!! Christ is Risen, He is Truly Risen Indeed!!! On behalf of the Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE Society, i ... Read More

A 17th-Century Russian Community Living in 21st-Century Alaska

obl- May 4, 2013

Wendi Jonassen and Ryan Loughlin  - 4/5/13 This clan has traveled from Russia through China, Brazil, and Oregon to make a home in the remote ... Read More

Foreign Policy American magazine includes Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew among 500 Most Influential Worldwide

obl- May 4, 2013

New York, NY 5/2/2013 His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, leader of 300 million  Orthodox Christians world-wide, has been included on the list of the world’s ... Read More

Sviyazhsk: An island town on the Volga

obl- May 4, 2013

After the defeat of Kazan, Sviyazhsk remained an outpost of Christianity in a Muslim region. Source: mityaguimon/flickr.com Read More

Sviyazhsk: An island town on the Volga

obl- May 4, 2013

After the defeat of Kazan, Sviyazhsk remained an outpost of Christianity in a Muslim region. Source: mityaguimon/flickr.com Read More