In the evening, in the first quarter of the hour after Ten, when nature slips into darkness’ tranquility, it is at this point when we arouse and devote time to prayer towards God. Let us unite in prayer, with the comfort of knowing that God has not abandoned us; but mindful that we have distanced…

The large-scale restoration of one of the most iconic of the famed wooden churches of the Russian north has completed and the church is slated to open for the first time in 30 years this summer. Holy Transfiguration Church on Kizhi Island in the Republic of Karelia, part of the Kizhi State Open-Air Museum of…

  His Holiness Serbian Patriarch Kyr Irinej on March 17, 2020, received an expert team of Serbian physicians at the Serbian Patriarchate in Belgrade. His Holiness Serbian Patriarch Kyr Irinej, realizing the seriousness of the situation, with regard to the presence of the pandemic, will accept the advice of doctors, i.e., infectologists and epidemiologists, and…

  The services are not held for the saints and the churches are not raised for them. They are made for us. Saints are gods by grace in the heaven of delight, united with God. They do not need our pitiful grimaces. We need to honor them, not to satisfy their shortcomings, but because we…

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Archbishop Elpidophoros conducted a prayer service in the Chapel of Saint Paul at the Archdiocese Headquarters in New York for the healing of sickness during the ongoing outbreak of COVID19. Join His Eminence in prayer, and as we pray from our homes, let us share this resource to all the faithful!  

Despite the current coronavirus pandemic and a sort of panic that overwhelms the people, a church of the Resurrection of Christ in Valjevo was full of the faithful on Sunday as in last couple of Sundays. His Grace Bishop Milutin of Valjevo celebrated the Holy Hierarchal Liturgy with the concelebration of the local clergy of…

On March 17, Orthodox clergymen blessed the central streets of Georgia’s capital Tbilisi by splashing holy water. Before the ceremony, a special liturgy was held at Holy Trinity (Sameba) Cathedral in Avlabari district. Clergymen noted that through this ceremony, they asked God to protect and save the population from the new disease (coronavirus). They moved…

A rebuilding program aimed to reconvert the iconic Hagia Sophia Orthodox Cathedral, in the Black Sea city of Trabzon, from a museum, its current state, into a Muslim mosque, has been blocked by a first instance administrative court in eastern Turkey. An announcement issued by a local chamber of commerce called for the Cathedral to…