Rating: 5|Votes: 4
The Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate released a communiqué from its Thursday-Friday regular session, stating that, as Ukraine’s “true Mother Church,” it has decided to begin a dialogue and coordination with its sister autocephalous Orthodox Churches on the matter of creating an autocephalous Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
Rating: 10|Votes: 9
The newly-departed Metropolitan Cornelius of Tallinn and All Estonia was a diligent man, full of zeal to fulfill all the tasks that the Lord laid before him through His holy Church.
Rating: 5,4|Votes: 8
The anarchists further likened themselves to Christ casting the “Pharisees and hucksters” out of the Temple. They specifically identified the “liberation” of the Kiev Caves Lavra from the Russian Orthodox Church as their immediate goal.
Rating: 4,8|Votes: 12
Speaking of the prospects for receiving a tomos of autocephaly for a Local Ukrainian Church from the Ecumenical Patriarch, the head of state reflected, “Anything can happen, but I am absolutely convinced that everything is up to the will of God.”
Rating: 8,5|Votes: 19
The monastery, which has stood at this spot since the fourth century, when St. Helen was building churches and monasteries in the Holy Land, has been destroyed and rebuilt several times over the centuries.
Rating: 9,4|Votes: 16
Deputies from the Ukrainian parliament “Opposition Bloc” have sent an address to His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, decrying President Petro Poroshenko’s plan to interfere in Church matters and force the creation of a single, autocephalous Church in Ukraine.
Rating: 8,9|Votes: 19
His Eminence Metropolitan Cornelius of Tallinn, the head of the Estonian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, has reposed in the Lord.
Rating: 7,3|Votes: 8
Ukrainian presidents, including Poroshenko, politicians, and schismatic clergymen have repeatedly looked to Constantinople to legitimize their unrecognized bodies.
Rating: 8|Votes: 23
In a new interview with RIA-Novosti, His Eminence Metropoitan Amfilohije of Montenegro of the Serbian Orthodox Church addressed the issue of the current situation in Syria, calling the attack launched by the U.S., U.K., and France a shame for the NATO nations.
Rating: 6,6|Votes: 5
His Holiness Patriarch Neofit of Bulgaria was admitted to the hospital yesterday.
Rating: 10|Votes: 11
The spiritual father of the Monastery of the Holy Royal Passion-Bearers in Ganina Yama, the place where the Royal Martyrs’ bodies were dumped after their murder, Hieroschemamonk Abel (Odintsev) reposed in the Lord on Tuesday.
Rating: 10|Votes: 14
Thanks to Russian businessman and benefactor Peter Vyunov, three identical monuments dedicated to the great St. John of Kronstadt will soon be erected in three separate countries.
Rating: 8,4|Votes: 13
His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople met with various political and religious representatives from Bosnia and Herzegovina and Macedonia on April 10 and 11, taking the opportunity to address the issue of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church’s agreement to help the schismatic Macedonian Church acquire canonicity and autocephaly.
Rating: 9,5|Votes: 17
A peacemaking appeal in response to the continuing tragedy in the Middle East, and in response to recent events in Syria in particular, has been released with the support five Orthodox primates and other Christian leaders.
Rating: 10|Votes: 5
The Institute for Bible Translation (IBT) is continuing its blessed work of translating the Holy Scriptures into the languages of the indigenous peoples of Northern and Far Eastern Russia.
Rating: 9,8|Votes: 5
A multimedia exhibition, “The New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church,” opened yesterday at the Russian Orthodox Spiritual and Cultural Center in Paris.
Holy Trinity Seminary in Jordanville, New York, an institution of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, will begin offering an accredited Master of Divinity degree in the 2018-2019 academic year.
Rating: 9,1|Votes: 14
His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia will make an official visit to Albania for the first time in late April, and will hold a joint service with His Beatitude Archbishop Anastasios of Tirana, Durrës, and All Albania.
Rating: 10|Votes: 7
Yesterday, following a long illness, Abbess Antonia (Filkina), the abbess of the Florovsky Convent of the Ascension in Kiev, departed to the Lord.
Several Congolese catechumens were recently received into the holy Orthodox Church in a mass Baptism ceremony on the banks of the Congo River.
