The relics of another recently canonized Romanian saint were solemnly uncovered on Saturday, April 26.
Today’s service was held in the Lavra’s Holy Dormition Cathedral. It was celebrated in Church Slavonic and Serbian.
A famous wooden church complex in the Belgorod Province of Russia was completely destroyed today after it caught fire from a drone strike by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
The 40th anniversary of Orthodoxy in Kaliningrad was festively celebrated on Wednesday, April 23, with the Divine Liturgy in Christ the Savior Cathedral, presided over by His Eminence Metropolitan Seraphim of the Baltic and His Grace Bishop Nikolai of Chernyakhovsk.
The president believes that “The Moscow Patriarchate undermines the sovereignty and democracy of states,” but that the act, as currently worded, could do more harm than good.