Orthodoxy around the World

He Who Conquered with Love (In memory of Metropolitan Laurus)

15 March 2009

Suddenly I felt “it was good for me to be there”, my heart started singing with joy, feeling peaceful. At the same time I realized that the reason and the source of this joy was this laconic old man ...

Metropolitan Kirill is elected to the Moscow Patriarchal Throne

29 January 2009

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The Chairman of the Counting Committee, Metropolitan Isidor of Yekaterinodar and Kuban, announced that 702 delegates had voted by secret ballot. The number of ballot papers after voting was 700, ...

His Holiness, Patriarch Aleksy II of Moscow and All Russia: A collection of his photos

08 December 2008

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Memoriam: His Holiness, Patriarch Aleksy II of Moscow and All Russia

06 December 2008

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Like the captain of a great ship, he guided the Russian Orthodox Church through troubled waters, rejecting those who would take the Church backwards to pre-revolutionary monarchist times, and at the ...

On December 5, 2008, the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, His Holiness Alexei II, Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia, Reposed in the Lord

05 December 2008

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On Friday morning, December 5, 2008, His Holiness, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, Alexei II, departed to the Lord, after governing the Russian Orthodox Church for eighteen years. The Patriarch ...

Journey to the Promised Land

18 September 2008

I have tried to find some type of meaning in my life living in war and unemployed and living as a foreigner in a country that I never really wanted to come too and can list at least fifty reasons why ...

Western Europeans in Search of Truth. The Nativity of the Mother of God Convent, Asten, the Netherlands

25 August 2008

The sunsets and sunrises in this rural, southern part of Holland emanate mystical shades of effervescent pink, a manifestation which has drawn many an artist to these lowlands. And if one were to ...

A Hidden Life: A Short Introduction to Chiune Sugihara

19 May 2008

Stephen Keeler

Oskar Schindler and Raoul Wallenberg are among the most commonly known people who have been recognized as taking extra-ordinary personal risks to help Jews and others targeted for extermination by ...

Pascha (Easter) in Dachau

07 May 2008

Gleb Alexandrovitch Rahr

In the entire history of the Orthodox Church there has probably never been an Easter service like the one at Dachau in 1945. Greek and Serbian priests together with a Serbian deacon adorned the ...

Athonite monasticism at the dawn of the third millennium

15 September 2007

As it reached the end of its first millennium in 1963, the monastic republic of Mount Athos seemed to have completed its life cycle and to be breathing its last. It had been born, grown to maturity, ...

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30 September

His Holiness Patriarch Kirill Contracted the Coronavirus

4th Plenary Session between ROC and Coptic Church Held

29 September

His Beatitude Metropolitan Tikhon Calls for Prayer for Those Facing Hurricanes Ian and Fiona

28 September

Patriarch Kirill: The Church Prays for the Fraternal Strife to End as Soon as Possible

Besides intellectual instruction, young people also need prayer, Patriarch Daniel says as new academic year begins

27 September

The Synodal Residence in New York hosts the Council of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia

Voluntary Blood Donation Takes Place in Churches in Serbia

26 September

The work of the Church in society is quiet, but full of hope and love, says the Director of Lumina Publications

25 September

Epistle of the Council of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia

23 September

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