Each year, the National Orthodox Baby Shower sparks dozens of new partnerships between Orthodox parishes and local pregnancy resource centers.
A host of hierarchs of the Belarusian Orthodox Church celebrated the 555th anniversary of the miraculous finding of the Zhirovichi Icon of the Mother of God and the 500th anniversary of the foundation of the Zhirovichi Monastery this week.
Following his opening greeting, His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry of Kiev and All Ukraine, the primate of the canonical UOC, offered an address on the occasion of the third anniversary of the UOC Local Council that was held at St. Panteleimon Monastery in the Theophania District of Kiev on May 27, 2022.
Speaking at a Paschal reception at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs yesterday, May 20, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia stated that programs of “persecution of our Church, which were initiated by anti-Russian forces in Western countries, are currently being attempted to be implemented, in addition to Ukraine, in Moldova and the Baltic states, especially in Estonia.”
The Diocesan Council and Nominating Committee of the Orthodox Church in America’s Diocese of the West announced earlier this month one candidate to replace His Eminence Archbishop Benjamin, who is retiring this summer.