TCC employees began forcibly pulling Met. Vladimir from the car without first checking any documents. When Fr. Alexander attempted to protect the Metropolitan, recruitment officers used pepper spray against him, forced him to his knees, and beat him in the chest area.
Law enforcement authorities quickly apprehended the attacker at the scene. The assailant is believed to suffer from mental illness.
A Ukrainian court has ruled against an Orthodox monastery, ordering that it surrender its buildings to the state.
The purchase agreement for a church building for the Most Holy Theotokos parish community in Locarno was officially signed on May 6, the feast of St. George.
The revised guidelines apply to clergy, employees, and lay leaders serving in dioceses, parishes, monasteries, seminaries, and institutions of the Orthodox Church in America.
The initiative seeks to preserve spiritual and cultural heritage while improving living conditions in less populated regions.
The survey examined Romanians’ perceptions of 12 different values, evaluated through a series of statements to which respondents expressed their agreement or disagreement.
Members of Holy Trinity Monastery and local residents staged a peaceful demonstration on April 28 against a proposed industrial wind energy project near the historic Orthodox monastery in Herkimer County.
The Georgian Orthodox Church will hold an expanded Church Council next week to elect a new Catholicos-Patriarch.
The Afriki Diakonia Foundation Uganda was launched by His Grace Bishop Silvester of Jinja and Eastern Uganda, who serves as the foundation’s patron.
Large crowds of faithful attended the celebrations despite difficult weather conditions to venerate the saint’s relics.
The church’s namesake, St. Raphael, established the Syro-Arabian Mission in 1895, which became the foundation of the Antiochian Archdiocese.
Met. Philaret (Voznesensky) served as First Hierarch of ROCOR from 1964 to 1985. His incorrupt relics lie in a vault under Holy Trinity Cathedral at Holy Trinity Monastery in Jordanville, New York.
St. Matrona was canonized during a meeting of the Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church on July 1, 2025, alongside 15 other Romanian women of holy life.
The Holy Protection Church was originally built in 1884 with funds provided by Pavel Vasilyevich Shchetinkin, a first-guild merchant. The church was closed in 1936, and the building was subsequently converted into a school.
St. Maura is a 17th–18th-century hesychast who was canonized by the Romanian Holy Synod along with 15 other holy women in July 2025.
The Greek island of Santorini marks a historic milestone today, as it celebrates St. Irene as its officially designated patron saint for the first time.
The newly illumined range in age from 4 months to 85 years old.
Catechetical instruction continues at St. Nicholas parish for other catechumens who wish to embrace the Orthodox faith.
The 450th anniversary of the repose St. Barsanuphius, Bishop of Tver and Wonderworker of Kazan was celebrated on Sunday, May 3, at the Holy Transfiguration Cathedral in Tver.
