Realizing the feat and heritage of new martyrs and confessors of XX century lets us make certain again that evil forces cannot overcome the Church, the Primate said. The history of the Church in the Soviet period is a tragic and at the same time majestic page of the twentieth century, drenched in the crimson blood of innocently…

In Pljevlje on 6 February 2020 for the 18th time there was a prayerful procession of faithful people who express their dissatisfaction and protest over the adoption of the unjust Law on Freedom of Religion, passed late last year in the Parliament of Montenegro. At first, there was a prayer of supplication in the church…

The Holy Dormition-Svyatogorsk Lavra has been serving refugees from Ukrainian war zones and internally displaced persons for several years now. The lavra and the town of Svyatogorsk itself, with a meager population of 4,000, have received tens of thousands of refugees in that time. During that time, concerned Orthodox Christians from Ukraine and abroad have…

Russia has very few surviving frescos created in late XV – early XVI centuries   New paintings areas, dating to late XV century, have been discovered during the restoration of the Moscow Kremlin’s Uspensky Sobor, also known as the Assumption Cathedral, says Yelena Gagarina, Director-General of Moscow Kremlin Museums. “We have commenced a full-scale restoration…

On October 10, the Holy Synod of the Orthodox Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia resolved to canonize a number of 20th-century New Martyrs. The new saints were companions of the highly-venerated Hieromartyr St. Gorazd (Pavlik): Frs. Vladimír Petřek and Václav Čikl, as well as Ján Sonnevend, Václav Ornest, and Karel Louda and their…

In the context of the social and family pastoral course at the St. John of Damascus Theological Institute –University of Balamand, the second year students paid a visit to the prison in Amioun on February 5, 2020. They prayed the Paraklisis together with the prisoners, after which they had personal meetings with the prisoners, listening…

NEW YORK – The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America announces the decision of His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros, after much consideration and in collaboration with His Eminences’ advisors, to create the following Archdiocesan Regions: Region 1: Manhattan and Bronx, overseen by the V. Rev. Chrysostomos Gilbert.  The list of Parishes is as follows: Annunciation (Manhattan), Sts. Anargyroi (Manhattan), St….

His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America has released his Encyclical for the Feast of St. Photios and the Saint Photios National Shrine. Read the full text below:   February 6, 2020 Feast of Saint Photios Saint Photios National Shrine Day             To the Most Reverend Hierarchs, the Reverend Priests and Deacons, the Monks and Nuns, the…

An ordinary Christian who has a morally dignified behavior becomes a symbol of the Truth manifested on earth and is a censor for the consciences of others. Honest souls will seek him to share his wisdom. The dishonest soul will bypass him and mock him or slander him. Through this treatment, he resembles the Crucified…