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  Two of the world’s most renowned tennis champions, Serbia’s Novak Djokovic, and Romania’s Simona Halep, are also well-known Orthodox Christians, with both athletes expressing their deep faith and with prolific charity work to their credit. Halep, 27, a devoted member of the Church, was recently received by the Romanian Patriarch, His Beatitude Daniel, who…

  The Archdiocese of Belgrade and Karlovci is organizing its fifth annual vacation program to Greece, for children of large-member families, an initiative that has the blessing of the Patriarch of Serbia, His Holiness Irinej. According to an announcement by the Archdiocese, the children’s holiday comes after a relevant invitation by the Metropolitan of Kitrous,…

  The Romanian Orthodox Bishop of Huși, His Grace Ignatie, prayed along with 200 children at the Archdiocese Cathedral in Bucharest, as part of a summer camp program organized by the Church between July 29 and 31. Youth campers participated in outdoor activities, while lectures were also given on communication and spiritual topics.

  More than 100 infants and adults were baptized at the Holy Monastery of the Dormition in Novomoskovsk, in Russia’s Tula oblast, and on the occasion of the 1031st anniversary of the Christianization of Kievan Rus by Vladimir the Great.

  The Archbishop of Cyprus, His Beatitude Chrysostomos, on Tuesday received visiting Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, on the second day of the latter’s official visit to the island republic. The Greek premier gifted a silver plaque to the Archbishop, inscribed with the Apostle Paul’s hymn to love. On his part, Chrysostomos presented Mitsotakis with…

  Hundreds of mourners, Church hierarchs and clerics paid their last respects on Tuesday to reposed Metropolitan of Fthiotida, Nikolaos. A hierarchical funeral service was held in the morning at the Metropolitan Cathedral of the Annunciation of the Theotokos, in south-central Greek city of Lamia, presided by the Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, His…

American historian and architecture expert William Brumfield discovers a remarkable wooden church connected to the Christianization of Russia. The village of Bogoslov, on the western outskirts of Rostov-the-Great, is beautiful in itself, but it is renowned for the nearby wooden church of St. John the Divine. This remarkable monument was built in the late 17th…

On the eve of the feast of the Baptism of Rus’, the much-anticipated All-Ukrainian Cross Procession was held. After a moleben, over 300,000 believers walked on foot over 2 miles from St. Vladimir’s Hill to the Kiev Caves Lavra to celebrate the Baptism of Rus’. On July 28, after the festal Liturgy, three new saints…