At the initiative of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill, the Moscow Regional Duma has adopted a law aimed at preventing abortions and providing comprehensive support to pregnant women. The law was passed on December 4.
The settlement was established in 2012 after His Eminence Metropolitan Andrei of Cluj gave his blessing for the creation of the St. Onufrie Philanthropic Association.
Priest David Proskuryakov
We spoke with Fr. David Proskuryakov, rector of the Church of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos in Astrakhan Region, about how and where to seek one’s happiness, and what to do to not miss it or destroy it with one’s own hands.
Ekaterina Kharchenko
For someone who had spent decades dependent on alcohol and drugs, sobriety felt like landing on a strange planet.
The organization’s mission is to equip the Orthodox Christian community to strengthen its commitment to the sacredness of human life from conception to death, illuminating the Church’s teaching on life issues through education and engagement.
Alexandra Gripas
It took nearly a year before that family found peace again. Irina later told us that her sister forgave Igor—and that, to everyone’s relief, he returned home.
The five-day conference will take place at a historic hotel overlooking the Italian seaside near Florence.
The parish founded the school with the conviction that shaping the hearts and souls of their children was the greatest gift they could give them.
This development is possible due to Orthodoxy’s status as the eighth officially recognized denomination in the Netherlands.
Ministry leader for Orthodox Christians for Life, content creator, mother of eight, Alex Gooding, shares her extraordinary fertility journey, defying doctors who told her she’d never conceive. With 8 children earth side and a few in heaven, Alex has faced it all: unplanned pregnancy, infertility, carrying twins, miscarriage, NICU, IVF, pressure to abort, and more.
Stevimir Ercegovac — a former professional track and field athlete and Olympian — along with his wife Karolina and their seven children, literally fled from Canada and Croatia, where they had been living, to the Russian city of Pskov.
A Romanian Orthodox priest has given land inherited from his family to build the St. Christopher Pediatric Palliative Care Center in Sânnicoară, Cluj County.
The Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Albania has joined four other major religious communities in the country in issuing a formal statement opposing a proposed gender equality law, warning that the legislation threatens to impose harmful ideological concepts on Albanian society.
Another book presenting the Orthodox Church’s traditional stance on contraceptives is now available.
New book offers a clear and thorough exploration of artificial contraception through the lens of Orthodox Christian teaching.
Dr. Pino discusses the consistent witness of the Church Fathers, the encyclicals of the Church of Greece (1937 & 1978), and the myths surrounding contraception in the Orthodox world.
Orthodox Christians from across Pennsylvania joined thousands of pro-life advocates at the state Capitol in Harrisburg on September 22 for the 5th annual Pennsylvania March for Life rally.
St. John the Forerunner Orthodox Pro-Life Society, a nonprofit organization, regularly holds prayer vigils outside abortion facilities in New York City, at least once a month.
On the Sunday after the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, at the Romanian Orthodox Parish of Holy Hierarch Cuthbert and Venerable Bede in Durham, a profound joy filled the community as a family of four – two parents together with their children – were received into the Orthodox Church through the Mystery of Holy Baptism.
Orthodox Christians for Life, which operates remotely, aims to equip the Orthodox community to strengthen its commitment to the sanctity of human life from conception to death. The organization’s vision is for every Orthodox Christian to learn and embrace an Orthodox pro-life ethic.
