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My Search For The Truth: Part 5

My Search For The Truth: Part 5

[Translate] by Tamara Schmerse Part 5 of 17 5: COC During this time, some of my uni friends had been accosted by the Red Frog Brigade. This was a Christian group that maintained a presence wherever there was fun and youth. They ran a bus service every Sunday night from the campus to the huge COC Church in the city....

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Convert Priest Builds His Own Church

Convert Priest Builds His Own Church

[Translate] I suspect we are going to see many more solutions like this. After all, Jesus was a carpenter! This man built his own jewel of a church… out of a garden SHED Perhaps Father Stephen Weston took inspiration from the fact that Jesus was the son of a carpenter when he built Britain’s smallest...

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An Orthodox Baptism in the Home of John Quincy Adams

An Orthodox Baptism in the Home of John Quincy Adams

[Translate] From our friends at OrthodoxHistory.org On January 20, 1811, an Orthodox baptismal service took place at the home of the future President of the United States John Quincy Adams and his wife Louisa. At that time they were living in St. Petersburg, Russia. Louisa Adams took an active part as one of the...

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Clergy

First Fijian Native Ordained To The Priesthood

First Fijian Native Ordained To The Priesthood

[Translate] This is an update from a previous report here. Though the original...


Orthodoxy In The Congo: Part 1

Orthodoxy In The Congo: Part 1

[Translate] We Are Going To Live In Paradise In Greece, Road to Emmaus staff...


To Be Free or Not To Be: Welsh Christianity at the Crossroads

To Be Free or Not To Be: Welsh Christianity at the Crossroads

[Translate] by Nun Nectaria (McLees) Hieromonk Deiniol, the sole native Welsh...


Reflections of an Orthodox Pilgrim

Reflections of an Orthodox Pilgrim

[Translate] by Fr. Brendan Pelphrey Converts to Orthodoxy are frequently asked...


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Mass Conversions

Swahili in St. Petersburg

Swahili in St. Petersburg

[Translate] Fr. Philip Gatari December 16 at 14:30 at the second Winter Orthodox...


More Americans Join the Orthodox Christian Church

More Americans Join the Orthodox Christian Church

[Translate] An old story from 4 years ago, and becoming more and more true every...


Another Mass Baptism In Russia

Another Mass Baptism In Russia

[Translate] Missionaries performed mass baptism of soldiers at northern Cosmodrome Archangelsk,...


Mass Baptism In Chechnya

Mass Baptism In Chechnya

[Translate] Chechnya saw the first mass baptism in its history. Grozny, August...


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