Father Bassam Nassif is a professor of Pastoral Theology at the Faculty of Orthodox Theology „Saint John Damascene” from Balamand, Lebanon. He is married to Helen and has three children.

I was born in a family of musicians and have grown on this atmosphere surrounded by music. I was listening to psaltic music and I enjoyed it a lot.

The Jackson family: Jonathan, Elisabeth, Caleb, Anastasia and Titus. A beautiful family of artists, a model of unity, of love, of assuming and living the Orthodox faith in Christ. The whole family was baptized in the Orthodox Church in 2012.

This year, on the feast of Epiphany, Paul Kingsnorth, author of some exceptional novels and former eco-activist, was baptized in the Romanian Orthodox Church at the Romanian monastery in Shannonbridge, Ireland.

Felipe is a 42-year-old Brazilian pianist. The need to understand the realities of the world we live in led him through providential teachers to the study of religion. That is how he discovered Orthodoxy.

This is the thing that is so hard for Protestants to see in Orthodoxy; they don’t always get to the idea that holiness is at the very essence of what it means to be Orthodox.

Father Athanasisus Kone is an Orthodox priest in Honolulu, Hawaii, in a parish that is home to the myrrh-streaming Iveron Icon of the Mother of God.

On October 6, 2007, at 10:30 pm, a small, 7 by 9 inches, print copy of the Iveron icon of the Mother of God, gifted to Subdeacon Nektarios by the ROCOR Hawaii parish priest, Anatole Lyovin, started streaming myrrh in the former’s house.