Giv’ot Bar, Israel, March 26, 2025 Photo: jpost.com Archaeologists have uncovered a well-preserved Byzantine-era monastery in the Negev, a desert region of southern Israel, near the Biblical town of Beersheba. Remains of a farmhouse were also uncovered, which, together with the monastery, seem to have been abandoned in the late-6th or early-7th century, possibly…
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Tanzania and Madagascar, March 26, 2025 A scene from Tanzania. Photo: exarchate-africa.ru More than 65 people were received into holy Orthodoxy in Tanzania and Madagascar over a 10-day period earlier this month. The Baptisms and Chrismations were celebrated by clerics of the Russian Orthodox Church’s African Exarchate. From March 11 to 15, 2025, the…
Kiev, March 27, 2025 Photo: uoc-news.church The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom has expressed serious concern about Ukraine’s law on banning the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. The Commission recently published its 2025 annual report, which covers issues of religious freedom around the world in 2024. Zelensky signs bill on banning the Ukrainian Orthodox…
Hanover, Illinois, March 27, 2025 Photo: bdoca.org The Athonite Saints Orthodox Hermitage of the Orthodox Church in America’s Bulgarian Diocese of Toledo opened in Hanover Illinois OCA opens new monastery named for Athonite SaintsServices are celebrated primarily in English, with Greek and Church Slavonic also used. “>in 2023. At that time, the property consisted…
Tallinn, March 26, 2025 Photo: orthodox.ee The Estonian Orthodox Church won a legal victory on Monday. According to the latest ruling, the state may accept the new name recently adopted by the Estonian Orthodox Church. At the same time, Parliament is set to vote today on amendments to the Law on Churches and Congregations…
