Patristic Nectar Publications has released an English translation of St. Gregory Palamas’ hagiography of St. Peter the Athonite, the first hermit of Mount Athos, available in hardcover and paperback.
The Romanian Orthodox Episcopate has requested canonization for Fr. Roman (Braga), a communist persecution survivor who served American Orthodox communities for 40 years until his 2015 death.
The communication was issued by UN experts on democratic international order, freedom of expression, peaceful assembly and association, judicial independence, minority issues, freedom of religion, and human rights in counter-terrorism contexts.
Abp. Damianos of Mt. Sinai announced succession procedures for St. Catherine’s Monastery amid an Egyptian court threat to its religious status and a leadership crisis involving expelled monks and competing Orthodox Patriarchates.
The Russian Orthodox Church has established October 1 as an annual day of prayer for seriously ill children and their parents, coinciding with the feast of the icon of the Mother of God the Healer.