"This is a historic year to be marching for life, because for the first time in 50 years, we are not merely mourning the Roe v. Wade decision, but celebrating its overturn," said Emily Yocum (Wilkinson), Executive Director.
The boy was waiting for his dear Guest, looking out of the window, but there was still no one there.
The fire, caused by faulty electrical wiring, destroyed the roof and upper floors of the Church-owned institution.
The Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church personally distributed Christmas gifts to children from large families and orphans at a special ceremony at St. Sava’s Cathedral in Belgrade yesterday.
The primate of the Russian Orthodox Church issued an appeal for a two-day Christmas truce in the ongoing war in Ukraine yesterday.
Abp. Leo spearheaded the appeal after incidences of priests and parish ministers not being allowed to visit refugees at state-run centers.
Priest Evgeny Shmelev
You may argue that it’s nothing special—an ordinary day for an ordinary person. But our hero is not ordinary. He gets into the car and drives to an Orthodox church to celebrate the evening service.
Archpriest Vladimir Dolgikh
If the goals of transhumanism are reduced to pragmatic formulations, they boil down to the desire for total control over matter and oneself.
Every day, there are new reports about acts of kindness and love by Orthodox Churches, parishes, monasteries, and individuals. Here are several of the latest inspiring acts of humanitarian assistance from throughout the Orthodox world.
Deacon Sergei Geruk
It is important that not only your faith, but also love for God and the desire to amend your sinful life, are for real.
The afternoon events began in the Church with Archbishop Michael presiding over a prayer service "for beginning any good work."
Priest Savva Gagloev
There was no shock, but it really took time to get used to the new reality, in which I providentially found myself. Sometimes I could not believe that I already lived in Cuba.
Throughout all times it has been important to find a balance between the eternal and the temporal, the spirit and the letter, the content and the form. It is a tragedy when the letter takes precedence over the spirit, and temporal interests and the current state of affairs—over universal ideals and eternal values.
While dioceses, churches, and monasteries are typically involved in charity throughout the year, the Christmas season is especially devoted to assisting the less fortunate.
The survey was carried out from November 27 to December 9 with 1,000 people aged 18 and over.
St. John (Maximovich) of Shanghai and San Francisco
Icons for our churches should not be written in a spirit foreign to Orthodoxy.
Archpriest John Whiteford
I do however want to draw attention to how Ecumenism among those who are ostensibly Orthodox is working to merge renovationism, modernism, and LGBTQP and abortion activism into what will likely come to be the church of the Antichrist.
In this season of the Nativity Fast, the Society calls on everyone to multiply their efforts to save lives of the unborn.
And so I would rush back, jumping over the stairs to my office, my desk, that flickering screen, where I could press the buttons—and everything on the opposite side of the screen would lose its colors, sounds, and reality.
Archpriest Oleg Stenyayev
We see that God is against dehumanizing our opponent. We must remember that any person whom we can potentially kill is God’s creation.
