Construction on a new Orthodox cathedral in the city of Yekaterinburg has been temporarily halted, following stepped up demonstrations by local residents, who oppose the loss of green space where the church is being built. The matter reached all the way up to Russian President Vladimir Putin, who said that “… everyone has a right…

More disturbing reports surfaced this week of attacks against former Muslims who converted to Christianity in the east African country of Uganda. The reports come as the Metropolitan of Kampala and All Uganda, His Eminence Jonas, this week announced the creation of a second Orthodox diocese in the country. One convert to Orthodox Christianity was…

More than 500 couples who had already started families but had no Church wedding participated in mass wedding ceremonies yesterday, reports the site of the Georgian Patriarchate. The services were held with the blessing of His Holiness Catholicos-Patriarch Ilia II of Georgia. The organizational work was undertaken by the Society of Chokhonetsev of Georgia, founded by…

Georgian clerics, their supporters and parish mark the Family Purity Day today, which is usually celebrated by marching in the central Tbilisi and special services in the main churches. Today is also the International Day against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia, marked in the whole world. The Georgian Orthodox Church established the Family Day in 2014,…

During his homily on Sunday, May 12, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel explained that the consecration service makes a church the gift of humans for God, and a gift of the Heavenly Father offered to us humans. The Patriarch of Romania offered these remarks at the consecration of a church at Turnu Monastery, a monastic settlement…

To the Reverend Clergy, The Esteemed Parish Councils, The Philoptochos Sisterhoods, The Youth Organizations, And the Faithful of the Holy Archdiocese of America: Today, May 16, 2019, His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America held a teleconference call with the Hierarchs and clergy – active and retired, of the Holy Archdiocese of America. The call was…

During the 2019 Spring Clergy Conference on Monday, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel listed seven proposals to improve the current situation of the villages in Romania. Twinning programs between generous urban parishes and poor parishes in the rural area. This involves offering brotherly spiritual and material help. Encouraging book donations to organize libraries in the villages….

Archbishop Daniel of Pamphilon, who worked in Ukraine as an Exarch of Constantinople on the eve of the creation of the OCU, flew to help Epiphany. On May 14, 2019, Epiphany Dumenko visited the 79th airborne brigade in Mariupol, where he met with the command and personnel of the unit, the OCU website reports. He was…

The Yekaterinburg Verkh-Isetsky District Court and Magistrate 2’s justice of the peace processed on Thursday materials of nine persons, who had been arrested during unpermitted protests against building a St. Catherine church in the center of Yekaterinburg, court spokesperson Olga Taff told Interfax. “The district court has processed seven materials, and the justice of the…