Irina Dmitrieva
Jericho has a glorious history. We read in the Old Testament that it was the first city captured by the Israelites led by Joshua on entering the Promised Land.
St. Mary of Egypt Convent was founded in the early 2000s at Holy Transfiguration Church in Degeya with the support and spiritual blessings of Metropolitan Jonah Lwanga of thrice-blessed memory.
The rock-carved Kubbeli church built in the 14th century in Soğanlı Valley, known as the entrance gate of Cappadocia, was destroyed by treasure hunters.
A number of men and women of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church received monastic tonsures this week, as the Church continues its journey through Great Lent.
Mother Elisabeth (Smelic) was appointed the fifth abbess of the convent by resolution of the ROCOR Holy Synod in 1999.
The Panagia Kato Xenia Icon is, according to tradition, one of those painted by the Apostle and Evangelist Luke. It was miraculously found in the coastal area of Laka Panagia in Magnesia around 850.
The arson was committed after the end of the Sunday Divine Liturgy.
Andrey Gidaspov
Christ’s humble gaze, His all-forgiving and all-loving eyes were imprinted in his soul, and he could never forget this vision…
The Holy Synod of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church met in Kiev on April 10 under the chairmanship of His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry of Kiev and All Ukraine. Among their decisions, the hierarchs decided to formally address the other Local Churches and international human rights organizations about the persecution the UOC is facing.
Hieromonk Theodosy (Khamenia)
Most importantly, the monastery keeps praying for the whole world, night and day.
When we restore a church, we restore ourselves.
With its Virtual Valaam project, the monastery will digitalize its manuscript collection, which will then be made publicly available.
A choir directing and catechism school was also established at the Tikhvin Convent in Dnipro.
“Praying to God is our main task. The second task is to enlighten people with the word of God,” commented Met. Tikhon.
Police are looking for a suspect who physically assaulted an elderly woman at St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church in the Briarwood section of Queens on Sunday.
The National History Museum of Ukraine is collecting funds to demolish Kiev’s Sts. Vladimir and Olga-Tithes Church, which belongs to the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
The community is named in honor of Sts. Constantine and Helen and Paisius (Velichkovsky) of Neamţ.
The frescoes on the walls, which have withstood the years, are about to disappear due to neglect and damage caused by treasure hunters.
The feast of the Annunciation of the Most Holy Theotokos is the patronal feast of Supraśl Monastery, the foremost monastic center in the Polish Orthodox Church.
Work on the Great Hospital Wards (1643-1644) and the hospital Church of St. Euphymy (1646) began in 2022.