A reading of victims’ names at the time bullets flew two years ago marked the end on October 1 of the second anniversary of a shooting that killed 58 people at a country music festival on the Las Vegas Strip. Greek-American Greg Zanis, who made wooden crosses with victims’ names and photos, put them up…

Vladimir Legoyda recalled that an area of pastoral responsibility of the Russian Orthodox Church includes 16 independent states. The Chairman of the Synodal Department for the Relations of the Church with Society and Media of the Moscow Patriarchate, Vladimir Legoyda, said that the Russian Orthodox Church is not the Church of the Russian Federation only. He said this on October…

Mother Agnia (Minyailo), abbess of the Holy Protection-Krasnogorsk Monastery in the Cherkassy Diocese of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, reposed in the Lord on Tuesday, October 1, reports the Information-Education Department of the Ukrainian Church. Mother Agnia was 90 years old. She labored in asceticism at the monastery for 50 years, serving as abbess since 1997. Her funeral…

Archbishop Elpidophoros attended on Oct. 4, 2019, the installation of Dr. Thomas C. Katsouleas as the 16th President of the University of Connecticut. Dr. Katsouleas is a leading plasma scientist and engineer with deep academic roots in teaching and research. He began his term as president in August of 2019 after previously serving as executive…

The Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops of the United States of America has designated October 6, 2019 as Orthodox Christian Fellowship’s College Student Sunday. On this day, parishes across Orthodox jurisdictions recognize and honor their Orthodox College Students and take a special collection to support the work of OCF. “College is a time, not simply for…

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An edition entitled “Bible for Young People” will be printed in Vienna this year, following an initiative by the Romanian Orthodox Church in Austria. Romanian Orthodox theologians and clerics cooperated to complete the German-language edition, with an adaptation of Biblical texts and Orthodox confessions undertaken by professor Constantinos Nikolakopoulos.

Sessions of the Holy Synod of the Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East began on Thursday and will continue until Oct. 10, chaired by the Patriarch of Antioch, His Beatitude John X. According to an announcement, beyond the items on the agenda, Holy Synod members will also deal with the the crisis faced by…

A mass baptism of new Christians was officiated recently by the Bishop of Gulu and Eastern Uganda, His Grace Silvestros, in the Palaro sub-county. The Orthodox parish of St. Nektarios is located some 60 kilometers from the city of Gulu.