The Holy Monastery of St. Irene Chrysovalantou in Astoria, New York, hosted its annual celebration honoring its wonderworking patron from July 23-28, drawing pilgrims from across the United States and Canada.
Jewish settlers attacked the Palestinian Christian village of Taybeh in the West Bank overnight Sunday into Monday, torching two vehicles and spray-painting threatening graffiti in another assault on the only fully Christian Palestinian town remaining in the occupied territory.
The 15-month imprisonment of the abbot of the Holy Dormition-Svyatogorsk Lavra has been marked by a series of legal irregularities and procedural violations.
The Russian, Ukrainian, and Belarusian Churches that grew out of ancient Rus’ celebrated the feast of St. Vladimir the Great and the Baptism of Rus’ with solemnity yesterday.
His Eminence was one of the first hierarchs targeted by the state after the start of the war in early 2022, and in fact, he has been a target for decades.