Greece's Council of State ruled Friday that civil marriage between gay couples and adoption by such couples are constitutional, upholding Law 5089/2024 with a 21-6 majority vote.
No matter what U.S. authorities may say or do, Ukraine has no intention of backing down from its campaign against the Orthodox Church, says MP Nikita Poturaev, head of the Parliament’s Committee on Humanitarian and Information Policy.
Met. Longin is the founder of the Holy Ascension Monastery in Bancheny, Chernivtsi Province, which also operates an off-site orphanage where hundreds of the hierarch’s adopted children have grown up.
The city of Belgrade celebrates its slava every year on the great feast of the Ascension of the Lord with the Divine Liturgy and a grand procession through the city streets.
On Tuesday, May 27, the day before the leavetaking of Pascha, the Kazan-St. Ambrose Shamordino Monastery solemnly celebrated the 35th anniversary of its revival after being closed and desecrated by the godless authorities in 1923. The monastery was founded by the great elder St. Ambrose of Optina in 1884.