Rating: 7,2|Votes: 18
Just five days before the so-called “unification council” is scheduled to take place, the division within the Patriarchate of Constantinople is becoming clearer and more prominent.
Rating: 9,3|Votes: 12
The official glorification among the saints of Hieromartyr Konstantin Veretsky was celebrated in Rostov-on-Don on Friday, December 7.
Rating: 9,3|Votes: 35
The nominees for the 2019 Grammy Awards were announced on Friday, and notably, a Russian-American Orthodox choir is among the nominees.
Rating: 6,8|Votes: 8
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has reached out to His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry of Kiev and All Ukraine, the primate of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church, to ask for his help in securing the release of 24 Ukrainian sailors who have been detained by Russian authorities since the Kerch Strait incident on November 25.
Rating: 9,8|Votes: 33
Pat. Bartholomew did not humiliate Met. Onuphry by his letter, but himself.
Rating: 1,8|Votes: 8
The hierarch was on his way from Donetsk to pray at the monastery at today’s feast with other hierarchs of the Ukrainian Church, the inhabitants of the monastery, and numerous pilgrims, when he was stopped at the Novotroitskoe checkpoint and denied entry.
Rating: 9,2|Votes: 11
The police officers and Ukrainian Security Service officers who conducted the searches found nothing that could be incriminating in terms of inciting religious enmity and hatred, Met. Nikodim said.
Rating: 10|Votes: 13
His Eminence Metropolitan Vladimir of Pochaev, the abbot of the Holy Dormition-Pochaev Lavra, one of the most sacred sites in Ukraine, has appealed to Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to protect the Lavra and the entire canonical Church from the increasing pressure from the state.
Rating: 4,2|Votes: 22
The Patriarchate of Constantinople has issued invitations for the so-called “unification council,” currently scheduled for December 15, in which is indicated who is allowed to participate in the decision-making work of the council, including the election of the primate for the new church.
Rating: 8,9|Votes: 60
In a letter to the parish posted yesterday on the site of the ROCOR Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Washington, D.C., rector Archpriest Victor Potapov introduces and welcomes Fr. Nectarios Trevino to the parish.
Rating: 5,5|Votes: 42
A letter of Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople to His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry of Kiev and All Ukraine was published yesterday by a hierarch of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church, in which the Patriarch informed the Metropolitan that his title and position is, in fact, uncanonical.
Rating: 10|Votes: 6
In an appeal published on the website of the Diocese of Sarny and Polesia yesterday, His Eminence Metropolitan Anatoly called upon Russian President Vladimir Putin to release the 24 Ukrainian sailors who were detained by the Russian border service in the Kerch Strait incident on November 25.
Rating: 9,1|Votes: 38
“We can say that they are charging our priests rather illegally, and it’s quite a stretch. I would like to say that we will support our priests. We will pray for those who are groundlessly accused. We will defend our rightness, including in the legal field,” Vladyka commented.
Rating: 8,1|Votes: 8
The pressure on the Lavra continued yesterday as representatives from the Reserve appeared at the Lavra to inspect the premises and take an inventory of the “artifacts” there.
Rating: 9,3|Votes: 18
The Public Chamber of the Russian Federation held its final meeting of the expert council of the “Great Names of Russia” contest on Tuesday, summing up the national vote for renaming 42 airports throughout the country after great Russians.
Rating: 9,9|Votes: 16
Dochariou Monastery, one of the 20 ruling monasteries on the Holy Mount Athos, has elected its new abbot following the repose of the former abbot, Archimandrite Gregory (Zumis) of thrice-blessed memory.
Rating: 10|Votes: 4
His Holiness Patriarch Alexei II, of blessed memory, the 15th primate of the Russian Orthodox Church, was solemnly commemorated yesterday on the 10th anniversary of his repose.
Rating: 8,9|Votes: 22
The church is the first and only Orthodox parish in North Korea, and has nothing do with the Ecumenical Patriarchate as the Russian Embassy in North Korea wrote on its Facebook page yesterday.
Rating: 2,5|Votes: 13
The interrogation of priests of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church has begun in Rivne, against the background of the continuation of the Patriarchate of Constantinople’s process of holding a “unification council” to create a new church in Ukraine.
Rating: 6,8|Votes: 30
As was widely expected, the statutes reveal that Constantinople does not intend to give full freedom to the church in Ukraine that it is currently creating.
