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…

The beginning of a new church was laid in Nur-Sultan, the capital city of Kazakhstan, on Sunday, as part of the celebrations of the 20th anniversary of the Diocese of Astana and Alma-Ata, as His Eminence Metropolitan Alexander of Astana and Kazakhstan consecrated the foundation stone for the future Church of All Saints Who Have…

A 15-year Pakistani Christian girl relates how she was kidnapped from her family, raped and then forced to convert to Islam and marry a 45-year-old divorced Muslim man. The teenager was able to escape from this horrific situation, attributing her salvation to a miracle.

Protests continued for a third day in Yekaterinburg, Russia, by activists attempting to block the construction of a new Orthodox cathedral, dedicated to St. Catherine, or Ekaterina, in Russia. The local Orthodox Metropolis, as well as the Russian Orthodox Patriarchate in Moscow, called for calm and peace to prevail, while adding that the cathedral’s construction…

On Cyprus, a report this week by the British foreign ministry includes the Turkish-occupied parts of the island republic in the most dangerous places in the world for Christians. The study cited statements by the president of the National Federation of Cypriots in the UK, Christos Karaolis, who provided facts and figures to researchers. Karaolis…

Condolences continue to be expressed in the wake of an attack last Sunday by jihadi insurgents in NW Syria against a Sunday school — in a small predominately Greek Orthodox city. The missile attack killed five children and their teacher at a monastery in the city of Al-Suqaylabiyah. Extremists in northwest Syria, including rebels affiliated…