In the summer of 2024, 37 parishioners from Lancaster's Annunciation Orthodox Church joined Project Mexico's home building project.
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.
There were 2,444 anti-Christian hate crimes across 35 European countries last year, with the UK among the highest, a new report has found.
Oksana Golovko
“Acquire a peaceful spirit, and thousands around you will be saved,” said Saint Seraphim of Sarov. This very “peaceful spirit” is what artists, including Pavel Ryzhenko, strive to convey in their works.
Elena Nasledysheva
And she was unable to explain it: “It is right here, you see, here,” and she’d point to her heart. But her husband would say, “God is telling us to do this.”
Regardless of whether it is an urban or pastoral landscape, the churches add loftiness to the artistic space, making it meaningful and beautiful.
Juan P. Villasmil
As much as we have grown accustomed to this, it’s not normal, and it demands reflection.
Metropolitan Paul Yazigi
Life in Christianity is not the life of an individual. Because, from our anthropological point of view, human life cannot exist alone.
Subdeacon Seraphim Nesch
St. Nicholas parish has become a hub for organizing relief efforts, with volunteers gathering here to clear roads and deliver essential items to those in need.
Alexey Gunkin
“An hour and a half later, when people figured out what had actually happened, the first messages appeared on the wall of the VKontakte group called “Heard in Toropets:” ‘Staraya Toropa. Central Street, bld... Willing to take in some people’ ‘Andreapol. Two-room apartment. Will host a family. Tel...’ ‘Nelidovo. Minibus. Willing to take out eight people. Tel...’.”
Maria Vasic
There have been no clashes on nationalistic grounds in Brezovica: They have lived and continue to live peacefully. No one here is surprised when a Serb helps his Albanian neighbor or vice versa.
Marilyn Swezey
The main and constant miracle was the effect presence of the icon on people in the who were uplifted, and sometimes just brought to a renewal of their faith.
The inaugural seven students of the Certificate Program have been remotely learning and reflecting together since February from their own homes and parishes across the United States. But coming together for the culminating residency on the campus of St. Tikhon’s brought a spiritual depth to the experience no one, not even the Certificate Program staff, were fully prepared for.
Priest Konstantin Memyachkin
I was leaving the bank as if I was treading on air! I was walking away feeling happy and thinking: “Now I will always go to the bank wearing a cassock!”
Archimandrite Silouan (Pasenko)
“I want to dedicate my victory to Him,” Bobrovsky concluded at the beginning of his post-victory interview, slightly raising his right hand towards the sky.
Alexandra Gripas
One day the doctors said that she had two weeks to live! It was just like a shot. Julia did not shed a single tear.
My mother and father did everything possible so that we would never feel that we were practically living under occupation. A feeling of being at home, a sense of our native home—that’s what they gave us.
Fr. David Myazha
“l reward thee.” Despite the horrors of war, true Christian virtue shone in the actions of one man on that fateful day that serve as an example of a lived-out Gospel.
Lolita Naranovich
When the pandemic came, I had no fear of getting infected. You know, it’s much better to have COVID-19 and Christ than to have neither COVID-19 nor Christ.
Elena Blinova
It’s important to be a part of the Church.