Piotr Yurchuk, Slawomir Nazaruk
The visit of St. John, the Wonderworker of Shanghai and San Francisco, in his holy relics was a great spiritual boost for our Orthodox communities in Poland.
Sednaya’s historic monastery lights up with a towering tree, bringing joy to a city scarred by more than a decade of war.
Dmitry Kiryukhin
Siberia amazes everyone who visits, leaves a lasting impression, and makes one yearn for it.
There is a certain joy and peace that comes to any of us when we take care of our brothers and sisters in need of our help.
Unidentified gunmen attacked a Greek Orthodox church in Hama, Syria, on Wednesday, December 18, firing shots at its walls and attempting to remove the cross, according to local reports.
Igumen Anthony (Korolev)
When a new wave of persecutions broke out in the 1960s, the authorities decided to close down one of the churches in the area, and their choice fell on Malye Yasyrki. But the sisters and the parishioners stood up for the church.
n the Soviet era the church in Malye Yasyrki was a spiritual center where people came for prayer and spiritual guidance not only from all over the Voronezh region, but also from across the USSR.
Hieromonk Nektary (Sokolov)
With the surgery that skillfully surpasses anything known to the mind of man, the Lord gradually removes from us the tumors of abomination and the metastases of filth, heals the glaucoma of ignorance and impassable stupidity, thus making us who we can and should become—citizens of the Heavenly City.
Archimandrite Seraphim reflects on the significance of our new church building and tells the story of his personal journey into monastic life at Holy Cross Monastery.
The name of Panselinos has been associated with the greatest Byzantine art, and his frescoed hagiographies have been considered as important as those of Giotto and Raphael.
Sergei Mudrov
But there is also another Switzerland—maybe not as popular, but still, the one that reveals itself to anyone who is willing to learn about it in a different light. It is more spiritual and blessed. It is the country of new Orthodox parishes. This is the Switzerland that gave the world many saints canonized by the Orthodox Church.
On Monday, November 18, 2024, the feast day of Holy Confessor Tikhon, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, the burial of Archbishop Peter of Chicago and Mid-America took place at Holy Trinity Monastery in Jordanville, NY.
Marie Tolonen
Xenia Franck is the artist behind the icons and began studying iconography about 11 years ago.
Matthew Hartley
A Christian presence of any sort is greatly in the minority throughout the Arabian Peninsula.
The beginning of a Christian presence on the Arabian Peninsula dates to Apostolic times.
Priest Alexei Shishkin
This theme raises the question of what an Orthodox Christian should be like in certain circumstances. He must be Orthodox: an Orthodox Christian on a trolleybus, an Orthodox walking down the street, an Orthodox entering a church, an Orthodox working. What makes him different from other people is that he makes efforts to fulfill the commandments of God, to pray, and to turn to God with his heart.
A real Christian remains one everywhere—in everyday life, in communication with a stranger; a seller or a buyer, a boss or a subordinate. For a Christian everything is subordinated to the same Gospel law, which is the basis of his spiritual life.
With gratitude to God and His loving Mother, the Diocese announces the establishment of a women’s monastic community outside London, dedicated to the Annunciation of the Theotokos.
After several decades of atheist propaganda in the Soviet Union, new life came to the Orthodox parish in the village of Barkhatovo.
Jacob Adams
For eighteen years I lived only thirty-five minutes from it, occasionally taking the road past its striking golden and brown domes that rose anachronistically from the dairy land of northeast Pennsylvania.
