A Ukrainian government official who heads the state agency overseeing the Kiev Caves Lavra is criticizing the country’s judicial system for sticking too closely to legal procedure in the years-long case seeking to evict the Ukrainian Orthodox Church from the monastery.
The Holy Synod of the Church of Greece has revoked an honor it awarded to His Eminence Metropolitan Ambrose, former head of the Diocese of Kalavryta, just two weeks after granting it, citing a letter from the bishop that members found offensive to the Synod.
The AHEPA Educational Foundation serves as the organization’s main channel for philanthropic support of education, granting funds each year to ease the financial burden students face.
Bishop John has particular pastoral responsibility for Old Rite communities within ROCOR, and his presence gave Archbishop Alexei a close look at a parish whose liturgical customs have been preserved with unusual faithfulness.
The centennial traces back to the early twentieth century, when traveling priests ministered to Lebanese and Greek immigrants in Niagara Falls, planting the seeds that grew into St. George Church.
Every day, Orthodox Christians come to stand watch at the walls of the Lavra, keeping up an unbroken prayer vigil to the Lord and the Mother of God for peace, justice, and the preservation of the holy Kiev inheritance of the Theotokos.
It draws on the writings of St. John Cassian, St. John of the Ladder, Fr. Seraphim Rose, Elder Ephraim of Arizona, Blessed Fr. Cosmas of Grigoriou, and St. Ignatius Brianchaninov, among others.
A surge of Orthodox Christian missions across the American Southwest in the last several years has prompted the Western American Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (ROCOR) to establish a new deanery serving Arizona and New Mexico.
The OCDA’s ministry focuses on removing barriers that can make it hard for deaf Orthodox Christians to take part in the life of the Church.
Several men and women were formally enrolled as catechumens at Macon’s Greek Orthodox Church earlier this month.
Romanian and Serbian faithful from the Timok Valley region gathered Sunday at Malajnica Monastery in Serbia to celebrate the local proclamation of the canonization of St. Magdalena of Malajnica.
His Eminence Metropolitan Anthony of Boryspil is calling on the faithful of his diocese to make three prostrations every day, praying for the softening of the hearts of those working against the Church.
Hierarchs and clergy from across the Orthodox world have condemned the killing and called for justice, though Ukrainian authorities have been largely silent on the matter.
Another joyous event took place at All Saints Antiochian Orthodox Church in Raleigh this weekend, as more than a dozen people were received into the Church.
The letter was published ahead of the return of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill to the British Parliament, which would have allowed adults with a life expectancy of less than six months to request help ending their lives under certain conditions.
His Holiness Patriarch Daniil of Bulgaria led a procession through the streets of Sofia on Saturday, September 12, carrying a relic of the Holy Cross, part of two days of celebrations marking the 1700th anniversary of the finding of the Holy and Life-Giving Cross of Christ.
The new mission aims to serve Orthodox Christians in an area between Harrisburg and Lebanon where there is currently no parish of any jurisdiction.
“When society loses its moral orientation, the Church’s silence is a betrayal,” he writes, arguing the controversy exposed what he describes as the moral and intellectual bankruptcy of Macedonia’s liberal-progressive establishment.
The convent, led by Gerontissa Theophano, has a direct spiritual connection to St. Joseph, as it was the first monastery founded in America by his own disciple, Elder Ephraim of Philotheou and Arizona.
Greece's parliament has approved yearly funding to help protect the cultural heritage of the Patriarchate of Jerusalem, covering everything from ancient manuscripts to monastery complexes.
