Archpriest Alexander Torik
He turned his head to me and looked at me with a look that I will never forget for the rest of my life—the loving look of a kind grandfather to the youngest and most beloved of his grandchildren. “My child! Do you know what this cross is that you want to take upon yourself?” he asked, taking the priestly cross hanging on his chest in his hands.
The decision to allow services to be held within churches again, under certain conditions that will be announced later, was announced yesterday by Prime Minister Ludovic Orban. The decision was joyfully welcomed by the Romanian Church.
The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America (GOARCH) announces the distribution of more than $250,000 from the Archdiocese Covid-19 Relief Fund on behalf of those affected by the Covid-19 global pandemic in the USA.
On Saturday, June 13, the Holy Trinity-St. Sergius Lavra, the largest and most important monastery of the Russian Orthodox Church, reopened to pilgrims and parishioners after a long quarantine period due to the coronavirus pandemic.
“The quarantine in the St. Seraphim-Diveyevo Monastery has been lifted. All necessary sanitary and anti-epidemic measures and a final disinfection have been carried out there. The situation has stabilized,” the Federal Service reported.