The Ukrainian Orthodox Church’s Archbishop Job of Shumen concelebrated with the Metropolitan of Sliven at a feast-day Liturgy for St. John of Rila in Burgas, Bulgaria, in a visible display of unity between Ukrainian and Bulgarian clergy amid the schism in Ukraine.
A federal appeals court has dealt a final blow to defrocked archimandrite Alexander Belya’s six-year legal battle against the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, affirming a lower court’s dismissal of his defamation lawsuit on First Amendment grounds.
Metropolitan Ioann offered a prayer to the Mother of God for health, salvation, peace and help for everyone working in the hospital as well as the patients being treated there. He also addressed those gathered, stressing how important it was for doctors and sick children to touch the myrrh-streaming icon.
Hieromonk Pafnuty (Fokin)
Preparations for manned spaceflight in the Soviet Union began in the spring of 1960. At that time, the concepts of “cosmonautics” and “religion” were regarded in the public consciousness as incompatible and mutually exclusive. And yet, almost all the cosmonauts of the first group were baptized Orthodox Christians.
In his sermon, Bishop Silvester called on the faithful to remain grateful to God in every circumstance.
More than a dozen more people were baptized into the Holy Orthodox Church at a quickly growing parish in North Carolina on Sunday.
Two local canonization services were celebrated in Romania on Sunday, proclaiming the holiness of four Romanian women.
An Orthodox parish in Show Low, Arizona, is rallying around a family facing a health crisis and financial hardship following the sudden, unexpected birth of their son, and is asking for support to help cover the costs.
At St. Joseph Orthodox Church (Antiochian Archdiocese), the feast was celebrated with a Baptismal Liturgy, during which 11 people were received into the holy Orthodox Church.
Orthodox faithful came out for a procession through the streets of Câmpulung Moldovenesc in northeastern Romania on Sunday, accompanying a centuries-old wonderworking icon of the Theotokos through the city for the third year running.
The visit came as part of a broader trip to Kenya by Metropolitan Konstantin. Following the service, Metropolitan Konstantin met with catechists who assist the dean at parishes in the area, speaking and praying with them.
The diocese frames organ donation as an expression of love, solidarity, and care for neighbor, and calls on the faithful to support it.
His Holiness Patriarch Daniil of Bulgaria joined hundreds of pilgrims this week on a six-day, 75-mile procession retracing the path once taken by the relics of St. John of Rila, walking the final stretch to the Seven Rila Lakes before the group completed its journey at Rila Monastery.
Thousands of pilgrims gathered at the Annunciation Monastery in Supraśl, Poland, on August 9-10 to mark the feast of the Supraśl Icon of the Mother of God, one of the Polish Orthodox Church’s most celebrated feasts of the Theotokos.
Part of the relics of St. Gorazd I, a disciple of Sts. Cyril and Methodius, have returned to Greater Moravia from Albania after 1,200 years, and they’re now resting in the cathedral church of the Olomouc-Brno Diocese of the Orthodox Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia.
Every August, the Orthodox faithful gather in Corfu to celebrate the great St. Spyridon of Tremithus, one of the most beloved saints not only of the Church in Greece, but of the entire Orthodox Church.
A Michigan parish of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia is helping to raise awareness about human trafficking and support young victims.
The ship set off on its 30th charitable voyage on August 10, marking three decades of the spiritual and medical outreach mission.
A three-year effort to stabilize and preserve the 19th-century Old St. Nicholas Church, the oldest standing building in the Municipality of Anchorage, has wrapped up.
The Diocese of New England of the Orthodox Church in America hopes to open a monastery in Vermont in the near future.
