Rating: 8.8|Votes: 23

Carpatho-Rusyns (as a Terra Incognita) in the Third Millennium

The Stone which the builders rejected has become the cornerstone

Archpriest Dimitry Sydor

Why did this ancient Slavic Orthodox nation have to suffer so much grief and oppression from constantly changing groups of nomads, to occupiers and invaders, to the next “liberators”, and then some more “benefactors”?

Rating: 9.1|Votes: 14

Patriarch Ilia honors memory of those killed in 1989’s Tbilisi Massacre by Soviet troops

Georgia celebrates April 9 as the Day of National Unity, recalling the tragic events of April 9, 1989 that left 21 dead and hundreds wounded and which spurred a movement that led to the Supreme Council of the Republic of Georgia proclaiming its sovereignty and independence from the Soviet Union on April 9, 1991, the second anniversary of the tragedy.

Rating: 9.5|Votes: 42

Statement of the Holy Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church on the current situation in Ukrainian and World Orthodoxy

We state that the idea of overcoming the church schism in Ukraine by the granting of a Tomos of autocephaly to the non-canonical church groups (“UOC-KP” and “UAOC”) has turned out to be a grave error.

Rating: 7.4|Votes: 8

Tiny First Temple find could be first proof of aide to biblical King Josiah

Amanda Borschel-Dan

Two minuscule 2,600-year-old inscriptions recently uncovered in the City of David’s Givati Parking Lot excavation are vastly enlarging the understanding of ancient Jerusalem in the late 8th century BCE.

Rating: 9.9|Votes: 24

Patriarch Irinej commemorates victims on 20th anniversary of NATO bombing of Yugoslavia (+ VIDEO)

His Holiness celebrated the Divine Liturgy in the Cathedral of the Descent of the Holy Spirit in Niš, concelebrated by His Grace Arsenije of Niš. Following the Liturgy, a panikhida was served in honor of all who lost their lives in the NATO attacks, with a packed church adding their prayers for their departed loves ones.