Today, the program is operational in 76 cities, helping women in crisis pregnancies choose to keep their babies by providing them with information about the abortion procedure and consequences, and providing the woman with psychological and social assistance.
The new statement, full of Scriptural references, is signed by the abbots and abbesses and their respective brotherhoods and sisterhoods of 35 monasteries from throughout Greece, including the Athonite monasteries of Xeropotamou, Dochariou, Karakallou, Philotheou, and Konstamanitou.
The honoring of the mother of 19 was part of the Month for Life, celebrated annually in March in Romania and Moldova, and took place specifically during a workshop for mothers in the parish community.
The shelter, run by the St. John Give Hope Foundation, has been renting premises, but the owner has decided to sell.
The annual March for Life was held in Bucharest on Saturday, March 30.
The gifts included diapers, hygiene products, and baby food.
Brenda M. Hafera
American males are turning off, and tuning and dropping out.
Downtown Manhattan’s busy financial district is a convenient location to reach many people with the truth of the Gospel and the truth about abortion.
Kirk Durston
When a culture approves of sexual activity before marriage, researchers have found that monogamy, belief in God, and rational thinking tend to disappear within three generations.
Following in the footsteps of the Metropolises of Piraeus and Kythira, the Metropolis of Corfu has resolved to excommunicate local deputies who voted for gay marriage last month.
The North American Orthodox-Catholic Theological Consultation has issued a new joint statement on the pastoral care of mixed marriages entitled, “Neither Yours Nor Mine—But Ours.”
Thanks to the efforts of the Pro-life Department of the Archdiocese of Iași of the Romanian Orthodox Church, a large family with many children will soon have a new house.
The recent events in Parliament “call for rivers of tears of repentance and heartbreak… Our era is indeed worthy of tears and, without exaggeration, worthy of mourning,” His Eminence writes.
The center will offer help to young families and mothers in the Houston area, where 27.6% of homes are run by a single parents and 19.5% of the population lives below the poverty line.
In response to the Greek Parliament’s scandalous decision to legalize gay marriage earlier this month, the Metropolis of Piraeus has excommunicated those MPs who voted in favor of the relevant bill.
The Church, the Synod, the clergy, and the people have said their word, and raised their voices to heaven: “This is a crime!”
On Thursday, February 15, Greek Parliament voted to legalize gay marriage and adoption by gay couples, making Greece the first Orthodox country to do so.
Greek Parliament voted late last night, despite the fierce and persistent resistance from the Church and society, to legalize gay marriage and adoption by gay couples.
Valentin Velchev
Parents fighting against the arbitrary actions of social services concerning their children can vanish in prisons and nobody in or outside the country will know anything about their fate!
The rally, organized by the Center for Patristic Studies in Marousi, Greece, was held on Syntagma Square in central Athens.