Mother Maria (Wall)
When you feel vulnerable, so unprotected and exposed and surrounded by evil, help can only come from God.
Dmitry Zlodorev
While there are no Russian convents or churches in the conflict zone, the tragedy is almost knocking their door.
Metropolitan Luke (Kovalenko) of Zaporozhye and Melitopol
All the representatives of the UCCRO who went as a united group to the USA to deceive the American people by claiming that there are no persecutions against the Church in Ukraine know very well that they are lying.
Maria Vasic
We are convinced by our own example that you “don’t walk over the doorstep without asking His blessing”—and, when your doorstep is in Kosovo, you simply can’t do anything without God.
Metropolitan Luke (Kovalenko)
I call upon the faithful children of our diocese to increase their prayer to God, that He might strengthen all of us and give wisdom to those in whose power it is to put an end to this madness.
Archbishop Alexios has opened the doors of the church to anyone in need of shelter in Gaza. He will not turn anyone away, as, he says, “We are all Children of Lord, and the church is a refuge for anyone in need.”
Fr. Joseph Farooq
On August 16, 2023, violence raged out of hand against innocent Christians in Jaranwala in the early morning hours after several local Muslims accused two Christian men, Raja Amir Masih, and his brother, of tearing pages out of a book of Quran.
Archbishop Varsonofy (Vinnichenko)
The war is on not for us, but for each one of you, because if we don’t win we won’t exist. Remember this.
The Patriarchate’s statement placed great responsibility on the official authorities that fail to follow up on the attackers on churches and their property, especially when the attackers are from the far right, which made these radicals persist in their attacks.
The remaining Orthodox people subsist here solely by farming and a tenacity that can probably be described as unrelenting, and they stay because of their faith.
Metropolitan Mark (Arndt)
This is being sought by those who are ruled by the devil, and their goal is to destroy the spiritual bonds of the nation.
Theodore Karakostas
It it a fact that what Constantinople is for the Greeks, Kiev is for both Russia and Ukraine.
Metropolitan Theodosy (Snigiryov) of Cherkassy and Kanev
Metropolitan Theodosy (Snigiryov) of Cherkassy and Kaniv gave a video talk to his flock while under house arrest, which we reproduce in English translation below.
It’s odd though—the most frequent question we, the residents of Parteš, have had to answer was, “But aren't you afraid?” Aren’t we afraid to go to church, or gather in groups somewhere? Should we fear the joy of the Risen Christ, just tell me?
Vasily Polyakov
The little-known testimony of historian and archaeologist Nadezhda Vladimirovna Linka, a contemporary to those events, show through historical documents that the cases of former and current persecutors and expropriators of church property are the same.
Bishop Theodosius of Seattle
We see how today the same thing is happening as at the dawn of Soviet rule, only with a greater kind of blasphemy, because they find time to mock at the graves of the Primates of the UOC.
Amid recent tensions at the Gaza, Lebanon and Syria borders boiling over, Israel reportedly canceled travel permits for Gazan Christians for the upcoming feast.
We do not choose the time we are to be born in this world, but we do choose how we will spend our time in the world. We choose how to leave this world—either holding on to Christ’s hand, or hooked onto the devil’s tail.
Bishop Irenei (Steenberg)
To all pious Christians, above all I exhort you to pray. Pray to our Almighty God that He will work a miracle amongst His pious flock in Ukraine.
Stepan Ignashev
It is not easy to be a Serb and Orthodox in your native land--the price for your faithfulness to Christ and the Fatherland is often very high, sometimes even life itself.
