Restoration specialists in St. Petersburg are ready, willing and able to help restore the Orthodox churches of Shanghai built by Russian emigrants in the early 20th century.
Rating: 5,5|Votes: 2
On August 17 at the Holy Dormition Kiev-Caves Lavra festivities were being held on the occasion of the third anniversary of enthronement of His Beatitude Onufry as Metropolitan of Kiev and All Ukraine.
Rating: 7,8|Votes: 11
The website Orthodox Christian Network has posted the audio recording of an interview with Fr. Panagiotis Hanley of the Holy Transfiguration Church in Charlottsville, Virginia (GOA) on the recent strife in Charlottesville.
The official website of the Orthodox Church in America has announced their opening date of their annual online choir conducting courses. “Choral Conducting for Beginners” classes are set to begin September 11, 2017.
This year’s procession was also dedicated to the memory of holy Hieromartyr Benjamin of Petrograd and Gdov and Archimandrite Sergius (Shein), and martyrs Yuri Novitsky and John Kovsharov, who were executed on the night of August 12-13, 1922. The procession likewise commemorated all the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia who suffered for the faith after 1917.
Rating: 8,8|Votes: 6
The relics of Georgia’s saint, Queen Ketevan, will be in Georgia for a half-year according to an agreement reached after long negotiations between representatives from Georgia and India.
Rating: 7,5|Votes: 4
According to the conclusions drawn at a recent international meeting of the Council of Ex-Muslims of England held in London, the number of Muslims apostatizing from their faith and becoming atheists is growing on a massive scale in France, Great Britain, and other European countries.
Rating: 10|Votes: 3
Work is nearing completion on the first church to be dedicated to St. Paisios the Hagiorite on Mt. Athos.
Rating: 10|Votes: 6
The forum was held in the Novodevichy Convent, St. Petersburg. Participating in the forum where 5 bishops, 42 archimandrites and igumens, 45 abbesses, hieromonks, monks, and ryassaphore monks—160 monastics in total from 65 dioceses of the Russian Orthodox Church.
Rating: 9,1|Votes: 16
His Holiness Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem announced on Saturday that his Church will appeal an Israeli court decision to approve the sale of church property to companies representing Israeli settlers in East Jerusalem.
Rating: 4,6|Votes: 7
President Petro Poroshenko of Ukraine has signed a decree on preparations for the 1030th anniversary of the Baptism of Rus’, the text of which has been published on the president’s website.
On August 6, during the patronal feast of the Church of the Smolensk Icon of the Mother of God in Jackson Point, Ontario, Canada, which celebrates its 60th anniversary this year, the foundation stone of a future chapel in honor of the holy Royal Martyrs was blessed.
Rating: 9,6|Votes: 12
According to Russian search engine Yandex, Muscovites traveling on the metropolitan subway during the morning peak hours search for the texts of prayers and dream books most often.
Rating: 9,1|Votes: 17
The 206th Extraordinary Double Sacred Synaxis of the Holy Mountain, consisting of twenty extraordinary and ordinary representatives of the Holy Community met on June 17/30 to analyze a text, a translation of which is available on the blog Mystagogy. It is known in the Church of Greece that the text was composed not at the session itself, but beforehand by Archimandrite Vasileios (Gondikakis), the former abbot of both Stavronikita and Iveron Monasteries, who is known to be close to the patriarchate in Constantinople. Although the text has been issued on behalf of the entire Sacred Community, it is also know that several of the Athonite monasteries disputed the document.
A new seminary program has begun training eager candidates in Guatemala, where the Orthodox Church is rapidly growing, missionary to Guatemala and Mexico Jesse Brandow writes on his Facebook page.
Rating: 9,2|Votes: 5
President of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadryov sent a letter to Russian Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky, which was followed later by a letter from First Deputy Chairman of the government of the Republic of Dagestan Anatoly Caribov.
Rating: 9|Votes: 2
Moscow will host the 8th international “For Life” festival of social technologies in defense of family values August 14-17.
Rating: 7,7|Votes: 26
Turks are gradually dismantling an ancient Armenian church of the Varagavank monastic complex on the slopes of Mt. Varag, in Yukarı Bakraçlı in Eastern Turkey, using its stones to construct a mosque.
Rating: 10|Votes: 4
The authors of the address note that apostasy from God always triggers deep political, economic, and social crises in any country.
On Sunday, August 6, in the village of Khopylevo in the Yaroslavl Province, the IV All-Russian Festival of Culture and Art in the name of the holy and righteous warrior St. Theodore Ushakov was held, highlighted by the consecration of a new monument to both St. Theodore and his spiritual father St. Theodore of Synaxar.
