Nearly 700 private clinics throughout Russia now refuse to perform abortions, says Fr. Feodor Lukianov, Patriarchal Commission on Family, Motherhood and Childhood Protection.
With Ukrainian politicians declaring they will never stop persecuting the Orthodox Church, police and schismatics continue to team up in violent church seizures. One of the latest incidents, in which the priest and elderly parishioners were physically attacked, occurred at the Prophet Elijah Church in the western Ukrainian village of Zabolotye, Chernivtsi Province.
A joyous celebration was held at the Greek Orthodox Church of St. John the Baptist in Haiti yesterday.
Following the removal of His Eminence Metropolitan Tychikos from the Paphos cathedra by the Holy Synod of the Orthodox Church of Cyprus, Archbishop Georgios has also imposed a six-month suspension upon a priest involved in the case.
During the Small Entrance, the Synodal decree on the appointment of Mother Judith as abbess was read out. Then Met. Nicholas read a prayer for her elevation and placed a gold pectoral cross on her.