Rating: 7,3|Votes: 10
Several arrests have been made in connection with an attempted robbery at Bulgaria’s Rozhen Monastery on Tuesday.
Rating: 8,5|Votes: 11
“The Church has always been and always will be a politically neutral, unifying force in the nation,” His Holiness Catholicos-Patriarch Ilia II said in a statement distributed today.
Rating: 10|Votes: 17
His Beatitude Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria Theodoros II was festively greeted by representatives of the Polish Orthodox Church yesterday as he landed in Warsaw for a five-day fraternal visit to the Polish Orthodox Church.
Rating: 8,9|Votes: 8
Thousands of archpastors, pastors, monastics, and laity were prayerfully commemorated on Monday in Kazakhstan at a site known for the execution and burial of 1,000s of faithful Orthodox Christians during the godless communist years.
Rating: 5,6|Votes: 17
Former Vice President Joe Biden had a meeting with the schismatic “Patriarch” Philaret of the so-called “Kiev Patriarchate” on Monday, during which he expressed his support to the creation of an autocephalous church in Ukraine.
Rating: 7,6|Votes: 11
In a video posted on the monastery’s YouTube channel yesterday, the abbot of the Kiev Caves Lavra, His Eminence Metropolitan Paul of Vyshogorod and Chernobyl, spoke of violent provocations planned against the monastery in the coming months and urged all the faithful of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church to strengthen their prayers for their holy Orthodox shrines.
Rating: 7,2|Votes: 15
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew also presented this false information to Ukrainian bishops during a June meeting.
Rating: 9,8|Votes: 12
The Skete of Sts. Anthony and Theodosius of the Kiev Caves in Ordynki, near the town of Narev, the only Orthodox hermitage in Poland, celebrated 500 years of the holy site on which it is built.
Rating: 9,3|Votes: 48
There are political forces that want to divide Orthodox unity actively at work in Ukraine right now, Metropolitan Hilarion (Kapral), the First Hierarch of the Russian Church Outside of Russia (ROCOR) believes.
Rating: 10|Votes: 10
The Orthodox Encyclopedia Church-Academic Center is completing its work on the publication of a large body of newly-identified documents pertaining to the question of the reunification of the Metropolis of Kiev with the Russian Orthodox Church in 1685-1686.
Rating: 6,4|Votes: 21
Speaking to his nationalistic goals, Poroshenko added, “It is extremely important that we have one more state-building foundation—the Autocephalous Orthodox Church,” offering his thanks to Bps. Daniel and Ilarion.
Rating: 6,3|Votes: 24
The Patriarchate of Constantinople may have sent its exarchs into Ukraine in order to legitimize the schismatics there through reconsecration, His Eminence Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeyev) believes.
Rating: 9,3|Votes: 11
In his homily, the hierarch addressed the role of Christianity in forming Europe and the peoples’ attitude towards it today, saying, “Europe stands or falls as it hangs on the Cross of Christ.”
Rating: 9|Votes: 9
Clergy protests brought results: Authorities have suspended the bill on the production of marijuana
Rating: 9,5|Votes: 44
While intense debate is underway in Austria on the growing Muslim population, Orthodoxy has quietly and discreetly grown into the second largest religious community in the country.
Rating: 9,1|Votes: 34
His Eminence addressed the Ukrainian government: “You are playing a terrible geopolitical and geostrategic game between NATO and the Russian Federation, so understand that these things cannot be used as tools in the Church.”
Rating: 7,2|Votes: 5
The granting of a tomos of autocephaly to Ukrainian schismatics, which the Ecumenical Patriarchate is preparing for, should have an impact on Belarus as well, the head of the schismatic “Belarusian Autocephalous Orthodox Church” (BAOC) believes.
Rating: 8,5|Votes: 61
“The Patriarchate of Constantinople’s persistence in granting autocephaly to Ukrainian schismatics has led to these sad and unfortunate results,” the Greek hierarch believes.
Rating: 10|Votes: 2
The commission for the canonization of saints of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church has reviewed the materials on the glorification of three wonderworking icons of the Mother of God and submitted them to the Holy Synod.
Rating: 8,9|Votes: 7
Numerous believers gathered in the monastery to bid farewell to the man who had headed the monastery for 23 years.
