Tamiš River near Pančevo (South Banat Okrug. Autonomous Province of Vojvodina) SERBIA
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House in the middle of the Drina River near Bajina Bašta (Zlatibor Okrug) SERBIA
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Lake Baikal (Irkutsk Oblast. Siberian Federal District) RF
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Contemporary Coptic icon of Christ
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VDV Day in Gorky Park. Moscow (Federal City of Moscow. Central Federal District) RF
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Reading a newspaper in Addis Ababa (Chartered City of Addis Ababa) ETHIOPIA
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Indian Malankara Orthodox married couple
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Christ Pantocrator
Unknown Artist
Church of the Mother of God Pammakaristos
Istanbul* (Istanbul Province. Marmara Region) TURKEY
*formerly Constantinople New Rome
Early 14th century
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Melissani Cave. Kefalonia (Ionian Islands Periphery) GREECE
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In the mountains of Ethiopia
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Armenian-American journalist with Armenian soldiers
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The Orthosphere… a place of stunning beauty… of homely domesticity… of honest heartfelt patriotism… a place of every good thing, both man-made and natural… it’s all ours… po-nashemu. If you want the heavenly, you must approach it through the earthly and earthy… that’s the way that God intended it to be. Beware all those who want to excise the Faith from its lived incarnations… such people are creating soulless zombies. Like it or not, that’s the way it is…
Yes… I know that the Oriental Orthodox “aren’t in communion”… but they’re part of our civilisational bloc; they’re part of our culture, they share our ethos and world-view (the Uniates are only superficially similar… they’re traitors with an Orthodox ritual masking Western “internals” and subservience to alien authority). There’s an Orthodox “visage” that we all share… that’s because we share so many of the “internals” as well, despite not “being in communion” (and that’s why some who seem to externally resemble us aren’t of us).
BMD
