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Magicians Who Converted to Christianity

October 12, 2012 By Fr. John 6 Comments

By John Sanidopoulos Throughout the history of Christianity, many magicians are recorded to have abandoned their ancient art and accepted the Christian faith, not because magic was found to be “fake” or “debunked”, but because they came to believe that in the eternal light of truth of the Triune God what they thought had spiritual […]

Filed Under: Pagans Tagged With: convert, magicians, orthodoxy

The Conversion of a Samurai

September 12, 2012 By Fr. John 10 Comments

This glorious account of the work of St. Nicholas Kasatkin, the Apostle to Japan, is truly inspiring. Even more so, the account and destiny of his first convert to Christ, Fr. Paul Takuma Sawabe. What a warrior priest for Christ! St. Nicholai Kasatkin was an Orthodox priest serving Christ in Japan during the rule of […]

Filed Under: Featured, Missions, Shintoist Tagged With: Fr. Paul Takuma Sawabe, katana, priest, samurai, St. Nicholas Kasatkin, St. Nicholas of Japan

From the Goddess of Death to the Emperor of Life: Part 4

September 11, 2012 By Fr. John 4 Comments

By Danion Vasile I was getting more and more scared. I felt that the nervous tension was reaching breaking point; I actually thought I would go out of my mind. I also thought that if I fell asleep the devil would get hold of me. It is so difficult to explain but it was what […]

Filed Under: Hindus Tagged With: Danion Vasile, hindu, orthodox, spiritual father, St. Nektarios, yoga

From the Goddess of Death to the Emperor of Life: Part 3

September 10, 2012 By Fr. John 1 Comment

By Danion Vasile Not long before that, I had listened to Swami Shivamurti, an initiated Indian master, Swami Satyananda’s disciple. In the late 1970’s she had been sent to Kalamata to impart yoga teachings to the Greeks. In 1984 she had set up ”the ashram”, a yoga monastery at Paiania, close to Athens. I met […]

Filed Under: Hindus Tagged With: Danion Vasile, hindu, monastery, reincarnation, yoga

From the Goddess of Death to the Emperor of Life: Part 2

September 8, 2012 By Fr. John 2 Comments

By Danion Vasile At any rate, I did not really perceive the presence of the evil one except on very rare occasions… During our meditation sessions, they would play a very nice, soft ambient music, but once they played a horrible music that seemed to come from hell… a music that would put rock-and-roll to […]

Filed Under: Hindus Tagged With: Bivolaru, Danion Vasile, devil, yoga

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