Members of the Russian human rights movement Women for Life are calling for a monument to victims of abortion to be erected in Moscow. The group initiated a collection of signatures on a petition calling…
Georgia’s unique frescoes of Davit Gareji complex dating back to IX-XI centuries have been damaged, Georgian Journal reports. Namely, the frescoes in the refectory and the main church of the monastery complex fell victim to…
His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople has announced that the minutes of the Holy and Great Council held on the island of Crete in the summer of 2016 will soon be published. The news…
His Beatitude Sawa (Hrycuniak), Archbishop of Warsaw and Metropolitan of All Poland, celebrates Thursday his 20th enthronement anniversary. His Beatitude Sawa is the current head of the autocephalous Church of Poland. He is the eighth…
Only three years after the laying of the foundation stone, the first ever Divine Liturgy was celebrated Saturday, May 19, 2018, within the walls of Warsaw’s new Agia Sophia Orthodox Cathedral, marking the centennial of…
Yesterday’s feast of Sts. Cyril and Methodius, the enlightener of the Slavs, was gloriously celebrated yesterday with a solemn Liturgy in Moscow’s Christ the Savior Cathedral, Orthochristian reports. The primates of the Russian and Serbian…
Georgian clerics, their supporters, and parishes participated in the annual march dedicated to Family Purity Day, reports Georgia Today. The demonstrators gathered on 17 May at the Tbilisi Concert Hall (Philarmony) and on Rose Revolution…
One of Greece’s most renowned churches, the 8th Century Byzantine temple of St Kyriaki in Naxos has become a recipient of the 2018 Europa Nostra Award which stands for the European Union Prize for Cultural…
At its latest session, from April 28 to May 10, the Holy Synod of the Serbian Orthodox Church resolved to canonize three holy martyrs among the saints, reports The Union of Orthodox Journalists, cited by Orthochristian.…
Pope Francis met on Friday with Metropolitan Rastislav, head of the Orthodox Church in the Czech and Slovak Republics. It was the first encounter between the two religious leaders. In his words, Metropolitan Rastislav compared…