A Serbian Orthodox parish in Lenexa, Kansas marked four significant anniversaries simultaneously over the weekend of May 2–3, 2026, drawing more than 300 faithful from across the region for a series of liturgical services, memorial prayers, and cultural festivities.
As a hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, St. John served around the entire world and today he is venerated throughout the Orthodox world, far beyond the bounds of the Russian Orthodox Church.
His request will be presented for approval before the Holy Synod of the Romanian Church at its June 3–4 session. His Eminence Metropolitan Teofan of Iași has been appointed to oversee the Metropolis of Bessarabia until the election of a new Metropolitan.
The pilgrimage site filled with visitors of all ages who came to venerate the wonderworking saint, pray, and lay their burdens before his holy relics.
Sts. Constantine and Helen Greek Orthodox Church in Cardiff By the Sea, CA, held a groundbreaking ceremony on April 18 for a major expansion of its senior housing community. The project will add 61 new apartments to the church’s existing 30-unit community on its 10-acre campus.
A Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) parish community that lost its church to schismatics three years ago has built a new temple and celebrated its consecration on May 23.
Representatives of the Romanian state and the Kingdom of Spain, diplomats and numerous faithful from Romanian Orthodox parishes across the Iberian Peninsula attended the event.
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Ceramic artists Anton and Olga Perov create unique porcelain works in their Moscow workshop.
The island of Tinian faces the most severe conditions. Residents have no water, food, or fuel. Many who lost their homes have been sleeping in their cars, and some have gone without meals for days.
The Romanian Orthodox Church maintains a significant presence in Germany, with approximately 200 parishes and three monasteries.
Throughout the previous night, thousands of Belgrade residents waited for hours in line outside the Church of the Ascension and surrounding streets to venerate the belt. On Ascension Thursday morning, an even larger crowd assembled for the traditional procession through the capital’s streets.
The church, part of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Diocese of Argentina and recognized as a Cultural Heritage site, has served as a center of Orthodox Christianity in Brazil for nearly a century.
Elena Belovitskaya
Anyone who has once decided to travel to Diveyevo as a volunteer will surely say that his life was divided into “before” and “after.”
A Serbian Orthodox parish in Kalispell, Montana, has broken ground on a new church building dedicated to St. Herman of Alaska.
Later in the month, the duplex homes themselves will be set into place and roofed, marking another significant milestone in the project supporting seminarians and their families.
The legal proceedings are part of ongoing disputes over the status and operations of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
When Heraklion was captured by the Turks in 1669, the Venetians removed all the relics from the Church of St. Titus and took them to Venice. The bulk of his relics remain there today, though his head was returned on May 15, 1966 and is now kept in a silver reliquary in a side chapel in the church.
The remains of St. Olympiada of Fărcașa, mother of St. Petroniu of Prodromou Skete on Mt. Athos, were solemnly uncovered on Monday in the village of Fărcașa, Neamț County, Romania.
Suzdal is one of the oldest and most beautiful towns of Russia. Because industrialization largely bypassed the town, Suzdal preserved much of its historic appearance, and today it is regarded as a living museum of ancient Russia and one of the jewels of the famous Golden Ring.
St. Nikolai, one of the great saints of America who served in the United States for many years before reposing at St. Tikhon’s Monastery in Pennsylvania in 1956, is venerated throughout the Orthodox world.
