Orthodoxy

Prot. Victor Harakas23.12.2025

The Ukrainian state’s persecution of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) has caused much sorrow among our congregation, as has of course, the war itself. Last month, a small delegation of clergy from four Orthodox [jurisdictions] in the United States went to our nation’s capital to advocate for our persecuted brothers and sisters. The meetings were […]

Sergey Stankevich01.12.2025

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During his visit to Turkey, Pope Leo XIV met with the current Archbishop of Constantinople, Bartholomew, the primate of the Greek Orthodox Church of Constantinople in Turkey. Pope Leo XIV and Archbishop Bartholomew signed a joint declaration calling for reconciliation and unity. They spoke out against any use of religion to justify violence. The peace-making […]

Prot. Victor Harakas03.11.2025

The Orthodox Church has many times expressed its philosophy of ecumenical involvement. The ultimate purpose is to fulfill Christ’s will that there be “one flock, one shepherd’ (John 10:16), so as to reunite separated and divided Christians into the one Church of Jesus Christ. This is a long and difficult goal to fulfill. It may […]

Yuri Chekalin10.08.2025

A partisan movement began to form on Belarusian territory as early as the end of the summer of 1941 during World War II. More than one generation will remember these heros — from surviving photographs in family albums, from videos on tablets. Time passes, but the memory of our relatives — veterans of the war […]

Natalia Tanshina20.09.2024

The West loves (and loved) to declare its tolerance and to accuse others, those who disagree, of lacking it. And tolerance — only in relation to itself. Let’s take the religious issue, in relation to which this term is often used. As is known, in 1054 the previously united Christian Church split into the Western, […]

Tony Rocchi11.04.2024

The far-right Black Hundreds movement had its biggest mass appeal in the borderlands of the Russian Empire, rather than in the core ethnic Russian regions in the empire. Thousands of people in the nine Western Provinces, a transitional zone between the traditional Russian and Polish states, enthusiastically accepted the Black Hundreds message of <<Russia for […]

Tony Rocchi22.09.2022

How did you decide to become a historian? What attracted you the most? My interest in Russian history began when I was 14 years old and saw the Hollywood movie Anastasia starring Ingrid Bergman as a pretender to the throne. I went on to read books about tsars and Cossacks during that time. I started […]

Prot. Victor Harakas21.05.2020

Many of our Greek Orthodox Christians in the US have become members of Masonic lodges. They hear of criticisms leveled against Masonry and are puzzled by them, especially because they understand Masonry to be on the side of God and morality, in general. They find it difficult to understand the charges leveled against Masonry which […]

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Reflections on My Trip to Washington, DC

The Vatican in a Difficult Search

Ecumenism

As Father Alexander Was a Partisan Priest During WWII

On the Issue of Tolerance of the West

The Stronghold of the Black Hundreds in the Russian Empire

Russian Terrorism Yesterday and Today

Masons and Orthodox Church

Trump is Interested in Chinese AI

The GKChP: The Day the Soviet Union’s End Began

The GKChP and the Chinese Lesson

Minamata Disease: Japan’s Environmental Reckoning