The Church today venerates the Seven Holy Youths of Ephesus. Today is also the feast day of St. John the Younger, the martyr Ia and the 9,000 with her in Persia.

The names of two more of the holy elders under consideration for canonization in 2025 by the Romanian Orthodox Church were revealed over the weekend. According to a statement made by His Eminence Metropolitan Teofan of Moldova and Bukovina while visiting St. George Church in Botoșani, Elders Paisie (Olaru), Dionisie (Ignat), and Cleopa (Ilie) are…

Four medieval Serbian Orthodox monasteries and churches will remain on UNESCO’s list of World Heritage Sites in Danger despite protests from Kosovo authorities, according to the decision of the 44th session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee recently held in Fouzhou, China. Thus, enhanced monitoring will continue to apply at the monasteries of Visoki Dečani,…

Another church, built in the 19th century and lost during the Soviet era, has returned to the bosom of the Russian Orthodox Church. And this time it occurred in an unusual way. The Church of the Great Martyr Demetrios in the village of Zavalovo, Tula Province, was donated to the Russian Church by Pavel Osipov,…

A new project of the Russian Orthodox Church aims to help those struggling families who live far from the Church’s established aid centers. To this end, mobile Church humanitarian aid centers have been organized to travel to remote villages in 35 Russian regions, reports the Moscow Patriarchate’s Synodal Department for Charity. The aid is first…

Locals have always said that the wooden church in Putna is the oldest in the country, and even in southeastern Europe. But now, thanks to scientists from the Forest Biometrics Laboratory from the Forestry Department at St. Stephen the Great University in Suceava, it’s an established fact: The Church of the Entrance of the Mother…

On this exact day last year, hearts were agitated by the tragedy at the port of Beirut. This tragedy ravaged our Lebanese reality and took away our loved ones. Today, we pray to the Father of lights, for Him to admit them to His heavenly light, to anoint them with the kindness of His mercy,…

The parish of St Anthony’s Orthodox Church in Sunshine is in turmoil, after burglars invaded the church site on Monday night. The perpetrators broke into the side door of the church and stole money as well as valuable religious objects. “On Tuesday morning I went to open the church and saw the left door open….

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