Archaeologists in Turkey have discovered a Roman villa from around 300 AD that was converted into a Christian baptistery in the mid-5th century, complete with a central baptismal pool and religious frescoes.
The Romanian Archdiocese of the Lower Danube is providing 3,300 fully-equipped school backpacks to disadvantaged children in Galați and Brăila counties.
The OCA formally recognized the autocephaly of the Macedonian Orthodox Church during a historic joint Liturgy in Washington, DC yesterday, where Met. Tikhon commemorated Abp. Stefan in the diptychs for the first time.
Construction has begun on the Dormition Cathedral of the Kostroma Kremlin, part of a restoration project to rebuild a religious complex destroyed in the 1930s during Soviet anti-religious campaigns.
Ukraine filed a lawsuit on August 29, to ban the Kiev Metropolia of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church for alleged ties to the Russian Orthodox Church.