The frontman of the “Karamazov Brothers” band urged Ukrainians to stop and not participate in the persecutions of the canonical Church. Producer and musician Oleg Karamazov published a corresponding video message in the social network. “Now, just like a hundred years ago, those deceived by politicians seize temples, beat holy fathers, tear apart the body…

The clergy of the Eastern American Diocese of the ROCOR adopted the text of an appeal to President Trump asking him to protect the canonical UOC at a diplomatic level. During the Lenten meeting of the Eastern American Diocese of the ROCOR, priests listened to speeches by clerics who had moved out of the Patriarchate…

For the fourth consecutive year during Holy and Great Lent, parishioners from the Church of St. Nicholas in Toronto held a live discussion with its sister Church of St. Nicholas in Seoul, South Korea. Following the Fourth Salutations to the Theotokos in Toronto, dozens of parishioners made their way to the church hall for the…

The first part of the picturesque Black Sea province of Trabzon’s great monument Sümela Monastery will finally be opened to visitors on May 18 following comprehensive restoration and rock improvement works. Sümela Monastery, which is located on a steep and rocky area in the Karadağ Mountain in Altındere Valley and offers its guests a combination…

On the 4th Sunday of Great Lent, March 25/April 7, 2019, according to the mobile cycle of Triodion feasts, the Patriarchate celebrated the Feast of the Annunciation according to the stable cycle of the feasts in the book of Minaion. This feast was celebrated at the place where the Annunciation took place, at the town…

His Beatitude, Metropolitan Tikhon celebrated the Divine Liturgy on the Fourth Sunday of Great Lent—April 7, 2019—at Saint Nicholas Cathedral, Washington, DC, marking the commemoration of the repose of his patron, Saint Tikhon of Moscow, and the anniversary of His Beatitude’s monastic tonsure. Joining Metropolitan Tikhon were Hieromonk Alexis [Trader] and the cathedral clergy. At…

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The Montenegro-Littoral Metropolis of the Serbian Orthodox Church suffers great oppression from the authorities, as exemplified by the situation around the planned demolition of a baptistery on the Adriatic coast, His Eminence Metropolitan Amfilohije of Montenegro said on national television, reports RIA-Novosti. Montenegrin authorities reported on April 2 that the Metropolis’ newly-built baptistery on the…

Unknown assailants robbed and desecrated the Church of St. Nicholas in the Ukrainian village of Korolevka in the Zhytomyr Province on the night of the great feast of the Annunciation of the Most Holy Theotokos, reports the site of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. The crime was discovered by a parishioner who arrived on the day…