Four inmates baptized and chrismated during St. Tikhon’s prison ministry program (+VIDEO)

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Coming to Orthodoxy

Four inmates baptized and chrismated during St. Tikhon’s prison ministry program (+VIDEO)

Several inmates at SCI Waymart, the correctional institution down the road from St. Tikhon’s Seminary in northeastern Pennsylvania, were recently received into the holy Orthodox Church.

Six Orthodox Churches unite for episcopal consecration at Bulgaria’s Rila Monastery

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Churches and Monasteries

Six Orthodox Churches unite for episcopal consecration at Bulgaria’s Rila Monastery

The hierarchs of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church consecrated a new brother bishop yesterday at the famous Rila Monastery on the feast of its holy founder, St. John of Rila.

Metropolitan Athenagoras of Vize (Constantinople) reposes in the Lord

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Orthodoxy Today

Metropolitan Athenagoras of Vize (Constantinople) reposes in the Lord

Metropolitan Athenagoras of Vize of the Patriarchate of Constantinople, who served in Mexico for 27 years, reposed in the Lord yesterday.

Romanian Church rejects call to recognize schismatic OCU—would only embolden them and increase violence

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Orthodoxy Today

Romanian Church rejects call to recognize schismatic OCU—would only embolden them and increase violence

The Romanian Orthodox Church has rejected the Ukrainian ambassador to Romania’s call for it to formally recognize the “Orthodox Church of Ukraine,” which is recognized as schismatic by the majority of the Orthodox world.

Islamist attackers storm Greek Orthodox Church of the Annunciation in Nazareth (+VIDEO)

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Churches and Monasteries

Islamist attackers storm Greek Orthodox Church of the Annunciation in Nazareth (+VIDEO)

“The Orthodox Community Council will not allow the desecration of a holy place, has filed a police complaint, and will follow up on it,” the church’s statement reads.