A priest, Fr Theodoros, was called to give the Holy Communion to two people who were near death. One...
Although Professor Georgopoulos refers specifically to Greek Protestants, the latter belong to world-wide Protestant denominations and so the article is of general interest. On what grounds do the Protestants reject infant baptism? They themselves claim that the sole criterion is Holy Scripture and that there is no scriptural basis for it. 1) Protestant contradictions. The position of some Protestants that infant baptism lacks scriptural basis brings them into direct conflict with the founders of Protestantism. At the time of the Reformation, rejection of infant baptism was a position held passionately by the Anabaptists, the most radical wing of the movement. They and their position were firmly opposed by the founders of Protestantism, who also had Sola Scriptura as their criterion. In two ...
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The police force in the small Adriatic country of Montenegro this week reversed a previous decision whereby its forces would...
Greek Deputy Foreign Minister Costas Vlassis referred to the strategic role placed by Greece in safeguarding religious freedoms and in...
The Metropolis of Smolensk, in western Russia, has issued an announcement warning of a scam involving the sale of purportedly...
Friday marks the 12-year anniversary of the election of Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, His Beatitude Ieronymos, to the...
The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, on Thursday expressed his hope and prayers for the reopening...
The Church today venerates the memory of the 1,003 Martyrs at Nicomedia, during the late 3rd century, as well as...
The Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, His Beatitude Ieronymos, on Friday received the recently confirmed European Commissioner for Promoting...
A mother left her healthy newborn daughter at an Upper Manhattan church earlier this week with a note that said...
Citizens of the Russian Federation and other countries donated more than 3 billion rubles for its construction. His Holiness Kirill,...
Realizing the feat and heritage of new martyrs and confessors of XX century lets us make certain again that evil forces cannot overcome...
In Pljevlje on 6 February 2020 for the 18th time there was a prayerful procession of faithful people who express...
The Holy Dormition-Svyatogorsk Lavra has been serving refugees from Ukrainian war zones and internally displaced persons for several years now....
Russia has very few surviving frescos created in late XV – early XVI centuries New paintings areas, dating to...
On October 10, the Holy Synod of the Orthodox Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia resolved to canonize a...
Integrity is simplicity, innocence and the unsullied purity of the soul. It is a virtue of the highest value, because it is the fruit of Christian perfection. People who have integrity study God’s will day and night, what is good, pleasing and perfect, in order to pursue it. They examine their life and investigate the depths of their heart. They tolerate nothing within it, but remove every wicked desire, expel every passion.
In the context of the social and family pastoral course at the St. John of Damascus Theological Institute –University of...
NEW YORK – The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America announces the decision of His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros, after much consideration and...
