Mention of the name Robert Louis Stevenson instantly brings to mind his three enduring classics: Treasure Island, Kidnapped and Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde. I should add a fourth: A Child’s Garden of Verses, a charming reconstruction in verse of a child’s imaginative...
As of 2017, public support for legal abortion remains as high as it has been in two decades of polling. Currently, 57% say abortion should be legal in all or most cases, while 40% say it should be illegal in all or most cases. Though abortion is a divisive issue, more...
The on-going refugee crisis has indirectly led to Austria recording a significant number of Muslims who converted to Christianity. Three quarters of the 750 baptized adults in 2017 are immigrants from Muslim countries, citing the official spokesman for the Archdiocese...
If the Russian Orthodox Church continues to develop with the current rates, the number of its churches can reach 80,000 in 25-30 years thus reaching pre-revolutionary number. “Now the number of churches is reaching 40,000. At such speed in 30 years we will have 70,000...
Communists did not create their own ideology but adapted Orthodox Christianity to their needs, Russian President Vladi-mir Putin said. “Lenin [‘s body] was placed inside the Mausoleum. How is that different from any relics of the saints for Orthodox Christians or...
