While some outlets were objective about the matter, others ran with the claim, which originated on social media, making accusations against the Church.
The monastery ensemble is one of the oldest in eastern Belarus. The pearl is the unique wooden carved iconostasis made in the 17th-century Belarusian carving technique. Only two other such iconostases have survived in the world.
Alexander Bogatirev
The monastery was ravaged at the same time as New Athos Monastery. Several monks were shot. Many were exiled and sent to camps.
Despite the broken road, a good number of people showed up to pray and receive Holy Communion. It is hoped that a regular liturgical life will resume in the church.
George really wanted to witness some kind of miracle like those that other pilgrims would excitedly talk about.
A new medical center named in honor of the “Blessed Surgeon,” the Holy Hierarch Luke of Simferopol, was festively opened at the Ukrainian Orthodox Church’s Holy Ascension-Bancheny Monastery yesterday.
The foundation stone of the future church, which will be consecrated in honor of the Life-giving Spring and the Holy Hierarch St. Nektarios the Wonderworker of Aegina, was laid and blessed by His Grace Bishop Timotei of Prahova, Vicar of the Archdiocese of Bucharest, on Saturday.
Reconstruction at Sts. Cosmas and Damian Monastery in Crimea following a summer downpour and mudslide was completed in time for the 165th anniversary of the holy habitation.
The building of the church was announced in a video featuring Orthodox actor and musician Jonathan Jackson, who played the great 20th-century elder in a recent film.
According to diocesan plans, “This monastery will be a beautiful and quiet place of asceticism for the nuns, while at the same time it will be a point of spiritual reference for the Orthodox faithful of the Iringa region.”
After an earthquake rocked the island of Crete late last month, one monastery immediately organized the distribution of hundreds of meals daily to help the victims.
The feast of the uncovering of the relics of St. John (Maximovitch) of Shanghai and San Francisco was festively celebrated with a Hierarchical Divine Liturgy at the site of the future church in his honor in Kiev.
An Orthodox church in eastern Brazil was broken into and looted late last month.
Millions of dollars have been raised, including several millions from American Christians, for extensive restoration work at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem.
Before the service, His Beatitude was festively greeted at the gates of the Lavra, and he blessed a new monument to his predecessor, His Beatitude Metropolitan Vladimir.
Jonathan Dunne
After an hour and a quarter, having climbed Golgotha and gone past Scylla and Charybdis, you reach your destination, a trickling spring and in a cave you can only enter by wriggling like a worm a quiet pool of water, where we prayed for those we know under the Archangel’s watchful and merciful gaze.
The Nanai are a Tungusic people of East Asia, with significant populations in the Russian Far East and the Heilongjiang Province in northeast China. According to the 2010 census, there were 12,003 Nanai in Russia, whose mother tongue belongs to the Manchu-Tungusic family of languages.
A new Orthodox chapel opened in western Brazil over the weekend, in celebration of the 75th anniversary of the Diocese of Argentina and South America of the Russian Orthodox Church.
18th-century Christ the Pantocrator and Panaghia Portaitissa (Iveron) icons were delivered to the Greek Consul General in Düsseldorf on Tuesday.
A fire that broke out on Tuesday left a beautiful Orthodox church in southern Kazakhstan without a central dome, central altar area, an iconostasis, or interior decoration.
