Fr. Nikita noted the absence of any prior warnings or official notifications from the Preserve. “Taking advantage of empty premises, they break the locks, seize the church, and effectively bar the Monastery from access to the holy site. Only afterward do they send letters to the Monastery claiming that the monks voluntarily removed their belongings,” he said.
The weekly Saturday morning Divine Liturgy, which is conducted in English, has proven particularly fruitful in attracting people to the Orthodox faith.
Many interpreted it as a spiritual sign on the very day when the Bulgarian Orthodox Church honors the memory of the Novosel Martyrs—victims of one of the bloodiest massacres during the April Uprising, whose 150th anniversary is being marked in 2026.
Ukrainian authorities continue to wage war on Ukrainian citizens who belong to the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
Tensions began when a Greek Metropolitan insisted on conducting the Liturgy in Greek. Bulgarian worshippers objected, arguing that services in a Bulgarian church should be held in Bulgarian.
Dejan Baljosevic
H.K. saw me: our eyes met. I saw sinister hatred in his glare and realized that I could expect nothing good.
The Serbian Orthodox Church and the Serbian government signed an agreement last week to jointly build an Orthodox university in Belgrade.
TCC employees began forcibly pulling Met. Vladimir from the car without first checking any documents. When Fr. Alexander attempted to protect the Metropolitan, recruitment officers used pepper spray against him, forced him to his knees, and beat him in the chest area.
Law enforcement authorities quickly apprehended the attacker at the scene. The assailant is believed to suffer from mental illness.
A Ukrainian court has ruled against an Orthodox monastery, ordering that it surrender its buildings to the state.
The purchase agreement for a church building for the Most Holy Theotokos parish community in Locarno was officially signed on May 6, the feast of St. George.
The initiative seeks to preserve spiritual and cultural heritage while improving living conditions in less populated regions.
Members of Holy Trinity Monastery and local residents staged a peaceful demonstration on April 28 against a proposed industrial wind energy project near the historic Orthodox monastery in Herkimer County.
The Afriki Diakonia Foundation Uganda was launched by His Grace Bishop Silvester of Jinja and Eastern Uganda, who serves as the foundation’s patron.
The church’s namesake, St. Raphael, established the Syro-Arabian Mission in 1895, which became the foundation of the Antiochian Archdiocese.
St. Matrona was canonized during a meeting of the Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church on July 1, 2025, alongside 15 other Romanian women of holy life.
The Holy Protection Church was originally built in 1884 with funds provided by Pavel Vasilyevich Shchetinkin, a first-guild merchant. The church was closed in 1936, and the building was subsequently converted into a school.
St. Maura is a 17th–18th-century hesychast who was canonized by the Romanian Holy Synod along with 15 other holy women in July 2025.
The 450th anniversary of the repose St. Barsanuphius, Bishop of Tver and Wonderworker of Kazan was celebrated on Sunday, May 3, at the Holy Transfiguration Cathedral in Tver.
The Patriarch was joined by numerous hierarchs of the Serbian Orthodox Church, along with clergy, monastics, representatives of the Serbian government and military, and several thousand faithful.
