New sales figures indicate that the Bible has experienced a dramatic surge in sales as readers search for hope amid the current coronavirus pandemic.
“What is the Church? Is it a union? Is it a supermarket? Is it a hair salon after all? Is it worse than the supermarket and worse than the hair salon?” Metropolitan Hierotheos (Vlachos) of Nafpaktos, the spokesman for the Holy Synod of the Church of Greece, asked with exasperation at the state’s announcement that the churches would not reopen for services in the near future.
The icon, with an area of several dozens of square meters, set off with the help of a hot air balloon.
The joy and grace of the resurrected Christ was shared with needy parishioners in a Tanzanian village on Sunday, as the Diocese of Arusha and Central Tanzania continued its charitable activity.
On Sunday, April 26, His Grace Bishop Benjamin of Zheleznogorsk and Lgov, 55, reposed in the Lord.