During the consecration service, all the children responded together to the litany petitions, and Met. Siluan wished the school continued progress in the spirit of Orthodoxy and the tradition of St. Sava.
Bishop Prodromos of Toliara and South Madagascar leads an Orthodox mission that rescues vulnerable children while providing healthcare, education, and humanitarian assistance across Madagascar.
The Church of Cyprus has moved its program to counter low birth rates into the implementation phase, offering financial support to families having a third child or more.
What started as a small act of love quickly became something much greater as we witnessed the overwhelming needs of the children God placed in our path.
An EU official tried to get the Georgian Orthodox Church involved in promoting sinful lifestyles in the country, according to a Church spokesman.
Priest Leonid Bartkov
A family crisis is not a broken machine that needs to be repaired by a neighbor. It is a surgical procedure that God performs on your souls
The Foundation was established in 1946 on land donated by Jordan, through the efforts of the late Greek Orthodox benefactress Siksek. Since its founding, it has provided continuous humanitarian care to patients of all ages suffering from incurable illnesses, with particular focus on infants whose medical conditions exceed the capacity of hospitals or their families to provide necessary treatment, rehabilitation, or ongoing care.
Representatives of the diocesan center have begun work on an extension to the house, and plan to install a heating system along with the necessary utilities.
Igor Petkovski, a representative of the organizers, said: “We’re here to defend our truths, our rights, to show why we should truly be proud, and if there’s something to be proud of, it’s the home, the family, parenthood, and our children.”
The peaceful protest, titled Respect for the Greek Orthodox Family, took place on June 13, starting at the statue of Alexander the Great on the New Waterfront and concluding outside the Church of Hagia Sophia.
Under the practice, families who were married in the Church could have their third and subsequent children baptized at the Patriarchal Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in Tbilisi, with the Patriarch himself serving as Godfather.
Ksenia Gubina
We have undertaken our mission of helping children with special needs, and we make every possible effort to fulfill it with dignity—with love for the children and with respect for their parents!
Ekaterina Silinskaya
From an Orthodox point of view, it’s important to see that behind these external outbursts, there’s almost always internal disorder in the soul.
Since 2012, more than 1,800 women have received temporary housing through the Church’s House for Mom program, and roughly 100,000 people have received humanitarian assistance.
The Council calls on responsible institutions to make public the scientific and medical basis on which the guidelines were drafted, the reasoning that justified their approval through an expedited procedure, the legal basis and competencies underpinning their adoption, and the criteria by which minors were included in the regulations.
California authorities seized a teenage girl from her Ukrainian Orthodox Christian mother and are moving to put her up for adoption after her parents refused to consent to allow her to mutilate herself for a gender transition.
An Orthodox monk from Mount Athos led a three-day congress for Romanian Orthodox youth in the United Kingdom, addressing hundreds of young people on living an authentic Christian life in contemporary society.
The holiday was established in Georgia by His Holiness Catholicos-Patriarch Ilia of blessed memory in 2014, and coincides with the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia, which propagandizes in favor of immoral lifestyles.
All funds will go directly toward the final stages of the St. Mardarije Center construction.
According to the bishop, the march represents more than a political or social debate. “It’s about publicly witnessing that life is stronger than death and that Christians are called to give this witness in the public square,” he said.
