More than 4,500 invaluable ancient manuscripts at the renowned St. Catherine’s Monastery on the Sinai peninsula will again emerge from obscurity with the help of cutting-edge digital scanning and computer enhancement. According to a Reuters dispatch this past week, a team of experts from Greece is photographing thousands of fragile manuscripts, including some of the…

A Russian Orthodox priest monk at the All-Merciful Saviour Monastery on Vashon Island, in Washington State, was assaulted at a gas station this past week by a stranger, with authorities and the cleric pointing to a religious motive. Abbot Tryphon said the at-large suspect “zeroed in on my cross, because when he started coming my…

Thousands of clergy and believers lined the streets of Bucharest to remember Christ’s glorious Entry into Jerusalem but also to profess their faith publicly during the annual Palm Sunday procession on Saturday afternoon. See more photos Source and Photo credit: Basilica.ro / Raluca Ene

‘We took the profession of our faith out of church walls and showed it publicly to the city,’ the Patriarch of Romania told the people gathered on the Patriarchate’s Hill in Bucharest at the conclusion of the annual Palm Sunday procession, a day before the Orthodox Church commemorates Christ’s glorious Entry into Jerusalem. ‘This beautiful…

Thousands of clergy and believers lined the streets of Bucharest to remember Christ’s glorious Entry into Jerusalem but also to profess their faith publicly during the annual Palm Sunday procession on Saturday afternoon. The worshipers walked from Radu Voda Monastery where palm branches and willow branches were blessed during a short service officiated by the…

The Georgian Orthodox Church is celebrating Palm Sunday today. The feast marks Jesus’ triumphant entry into Jerusalem, and is celebrated by a feast on the Sunday before Easter. On Palm Sunday people who are fasting are allowed to eat fish, while after this day they must continue heavy fasting until Easter Sunday. Fasting is another…

The Russian icon kept in the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris was not damaged by fire, the representative of the Russian Orthodox Church at the Council of Europe and the Father Superior of the Parish of All Saints in Strasbourg, Abbot Philip said. He was informed about this by the Father Superior of Notre-Dame de…

His Grace Bishop Justin of Maramures and Satmar on Sunday, April 14, 2019, presided over the Divine Liturgy at Săpânţa-Peri Monastery, whose wooden church is the tallest in Europe. The 78-metre high tower of the church dedicated to the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross is visible at a distance of about 5…

On 18 April 2019, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations (DECR), met with Rev. Martin Barta, confessor, and Mr. Pyotr Gumenyuk, head of the Russian section, the Kirche in Not Foundation. They were joined in the meeting, which took place at the parish house at the Church…