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[Wolfgang @Zalmoxis7534]

Saint Seraphim Rose

[301🇦🇲 @301arm]

For the third consecutive year, school bells remain silent in Artsakh on the first day of school.

September 1 has long been celebrated in Armenia and Artsakh as Knowledge Day, a day of new beginnings, filled classrooms, and the promise of a new academic year.

But once again, nearly 21,000 students from 217 schools in Artsakh are unable to return to their classrooms in their homeland. Almost three years after their forced displacement, they remain denied the right to begin the school year where they belong.

At the same time, this September 1 marks a particularly painful milestone for a new generation. Children born in 2020, who have known war, blockade, and displacement throughout their young lives, are now reaching school age. For many, today is their first day of school, but not in the homeland where they were born and where their families expected them to grow up.

They are a generation born in Artsakh, raised through war, and forced to begin their education away from home.

The classrooms of Artsakh may be empty today, but the children who once filled them and the generation that should have filled them next must not be forgotten.

📸: Արցախյան Հին Լուսանկարներ

[ⲡⲓⲗⲉⲱⲛ ⲛ̀ⲧⲉ ⲡⲓⲭⲣⲓⲥⲧⲟⲥ @LionOf_Christ]

Palestinian Christian girls from Bethlehem wearing traditional Palestinian dresses in front of the Icon of the Theotokos of Bethlehem.

[֍ ♰ @LucyluvsMoon1]

Noravank 🕊️🤍

#armjeeptour

[WANA Visuals @wana_visualss]

🇵🇸 A Palestinian boy holds a candle at a Church in Gaza, Palestine, 2001.

Photo by Ahmed Jadallah

[Artsakh Monuments @ArtsakhMon]

Patara, Artsakh,Armenia.12th–13th century khachkars (cross-stones).It is currently occupied by Azerbaijan and remains under threat,as the Azerbaijani government,after carrying out ethnic cleansing in Artsakh,is erasing the historical and cultural heritage of the indigenous people

[Ihab Hassan @IhabHassane]

The Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem has issued a stark warning: the Christian presence in the land where Christianity was born is under threat.

Christian communities in Bethlehem, Jerusalem, the West Bank, and Gaza are facing devastating unemployment, movement restrictions, collapsing tourism, violence, and growing pressure to emigrate. In Gaza, only 541 Christians remain.

A Holy Land without its indigenous Christians must never become acceptable. Christians around the world must move beyond words and provide meaningful support so Palestinian Christians can remain.

The Patriarchate added:

“The possibility of a Holy Land without Christians should deeply concern believers around the world. This is not merely a demographic shift; it is a crisis of history, identity, and faith. What would it mean for the birthplace of Christianity to become an empty museum of physical stones and archaeological sites? The living stones must remain.”

https://t.co/tOCw1yfZE0

[susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى @susanabulhawa]

I am heartbroken to hear of Sliman Mansour's passing.
He was the leading, most recognizable figure contemporary Palestinian art. So many of his paintings became instantly iconic, like Jamal elMahamel (Camel of Hardship), depicting an elder Palestinian carrying his city, Jerusalem, on his back.
I feel so fortunate and blessed to be with him in an upcoming documentary by Ali Al Arian and David Riker. But it pains me that he left us before he could witnessed a liberated Palestine. May he rest in eternal power with the unbroken line of his ancestors who've nurtured Palestine's soil for millennia.

[Father Spyridon Bailey @Fatherspyridon]

"Glory to God for all the sorrows which confront us! The person to whom sorrow is given is remembered by God in His Kingdom." - St Ignatius Brianchaninov

[Bagratouni ֎ ᨒ ོ🇦🇲 @jikaji77]

Monastère Arménien de Khstonk Vanq, Ani (la ville aux milles et une églises) 🇦🇲aujourd’hui totalement profané par les turcs

[Greek Report 🇬🇷 @GreekReporterr]

No One Forgets, Nothing Is Forgotten!

52 Years Since the Turkish Invasion of Cyprus.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

While all eyes are on the World Cup final, Israel is blowing up civilian homes in Beit Yahoun, South Lebanon.

[Nara @nmatini]

@nexta_tv He didn’t mention how he was starving 30,000 Armenian kids under a genocidal siege for 9 month and then dropping bombs on them? Hmmm…

[Orthodox Christian @orthodox_33ad]

A clear display of not just intolerance of Christianity in Israel, but its incompatibility with Zionism.

This isn’t some ancient story. This is recent, and constantly happening.

Saint Philoumenos pray for us all.

[Leonarda Jonie @Leonardaisfunny]

To all the Christians who support Israel, do you think God is blessing you for this?

[TheOrthodoxWay @_theorthodoxway]

“A person must be in the religious search not for the sake of religious experiences, which can deceive, but for the sake of truth.”
- Fr. Seraphim Rose

[Muse @xmuse_]

Enjoy the sound of Armenia’s duduk echoing through this 4th century rock‑carved monastery as Arsen Petrosyan brings the whole place to life.

[Angelina Serbska ☦️ @Angelina_Lina8]

Every Christian should find for himself the imperative and incentive to become holy. If you live without struggle and without hope of becoming holy, then you are Christians only in name and not in essence. But without holiness, no one shall see the Lord, that is to say they will not attain eternal blessedness.

It is a trustworthy saying that Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners (I Tim. 1:15). But we deceive ourselves if we think that we are saved while remaining sinners. Christ saves those sinners by giving them the means to become saints.

St. Philaret of Moscow