The 83-year-old leader of the Bulgarian Orthodox Diocese of the USA, Canada, and Australia has been found safe in a Manhattan hospital, two days after he went missing from Hell’s Kitchen, thanks to a sharp-eyed local news outlet that connected a reader’s photo to an NYPD missing-person alert.
“I can’t thank you enough for all your prayers and kind thoughts. Overall, it was a good ‘pilgrimage.’ I got lots of prayer done,” Khouria Frederica writes.
Many of the pilgrims walked for days, forming cross processions from various starting points across Ukraine to reach the holy site in time for the feast. Authorities, meanwhile, are calling for all participants in these processions to be investigated.
The Belarusian Orthodox Church is warning the faithful about a rise in pseudo-religious groups posing as Orthodox clergy and spreading false teachings among believers.
The Metropolitanate of Montenegro and the Littoral has hit back at Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić over a string of recent remarks about the Serbian Orthodox Church, accusing him of political meddling in Church affairs and confused, damaging rhetoric.
Patients at Sofia’s N. I. Pirogov University Hospital received a blessing this week from the myrrh-streaming Hawaiian Iveron Icon of the Mother of God, which was brought through the hospital’s clinics and wards on August 3.
Two young Egyptian women have taken monastic vows and a historic church in Alexandria has been declared a new convent, in a service led by Patriarch Theodore II of Alexandria and All Africa.
The Diocese of Bukoba and Western Tanzania of the Patriarchate of Alexandria has sent a missionary delegation to the Geita and Mara regions of western Tanzania in response to what it describes as an invasion by clergy of the Russian Orthodox Church’s African Exarchate in those areas.
The diaspora address follows similar expressions of support for the Patriarch from clergy of the Sofia Diocese and the Bulgarian Holy Synod.
His Grace Bishop Gerasim of Forth Worth of the Orthodox Church in America joined several Polish hierarchs for the feast of St. Mary Magdalene on August 4, the patronal feast of the main cathedral of the Polish Autocephalous Orthodox Church.
Services have begun at the Church of the Prophet Elijah in the mountain village of Magulo, Philippines, following the recent completion of the church’s roof.
The icon has been placed for veneration in the monastery’s Small Cathedral, where the Divine Liturgy and evening services are celebrated daily. Moleben services with the Akathist to the Donskoy Icon are also served daily before the icon from 11 AM to 4:30 PM.
The fires mark one of the worst wildfire seasons the region has experienced, with nearly 8,000 acres burned and more than 600 structures destroyed as of the latest reports.
Orthodox clergy and forensic specialists uncovered what are believed to be the relics of St. Athanasy the Confessor, a fool-for-Christ who spent decades in Soviet prisons and psychiatric hospitals for his faith, during excavation work at his burial site in Oryol, Russia.
Greece’s Ministry of Culture handed over two restored Byzantine churches to the Metropolis of Kastoria on August 3, completing another phase of heritage preservation work in the northern Greek city.
Prayers are requested for popular Orthodox writer and priest wife Frederica Mathewes-Green.
Over its three years of operation, 349 fundraising campaigns for social projects were launched on the platform. More than 50,000 people made donations over the platform’s three years of operation.
The formal establishment marks a milestone in a process that began in October 2025, when the Diocesan Council unanimously supported Bp. Vasily’s initiative to explore planting a mission in the Greater Salt Lake City area.
The catechumens underwent a month of preparation, regularly attending services and discussions. They’re currently continuing their catechization under the guidance of Fr. Pavel.
All English and Spanish translations from the original Greek and Church Slavonic are the work of Archbishop DMITRI (Royster), to whose blessed memory this Divine Liturgy is dedicated.
