Waymart, Pennsylvania, March 24, 2025 Photo: gofundme.com The Monastery of St. Tikhon of Zadonsk in Waymart, Pennsylvania, the oldest Orthodox monastery in America, founded by the future Patriarch St. Tikhon of Moscow in 1905, is asking for help to renovate the community trapeza used by monastery parishioners and build a new trapeza for the…
Tirana, March 24, 2025 Photo: ekirikas.com The new primate of the Albanian Orthodox Church maintains the same position that was formulated under his predecessor regarding the Patriarchate of Constantinople granting a tomos of autocephaly to the schismatic “Orthodox Church of Ukraine.” His Eminence John of Korçë was elected Archbishop of the Albanian Church on…
Stragari, Šumadija and Western Serbia, Serbia, March 25, 2025 Photo: eparhija-sumadijska.org. A beloved abbess from the Serbian Orthodox Church departed to the Lord last week. On Friday, March 21, Abbess Salafaila of the Holy Annunciation Monastery in Stragari, 55 miles south of Belgrade, peacefully reposed at the age of 85, reports the Serbian Orthodox…
Tver, Tver Province, Russia, March 25, 2025 Photo: tvereparhia.ru A plaque honoring one of Russia’s most beloved New Martyrs was blessed at the site of his martyrdom last week. On March 20, His Eminence Metroplitan Ambrose of Tver visited Pre-Trial Detention Center No. 1 in the Tver Province, where he blessed a memorial plaque…
Those who venerate the Cross with faith and loveknow the power it possesses and draw upon it to gain victory over the devil. St. John ChrysostomJohn Chrysostom, Archbishop of Constantinople, St. “>St. John Chrysostom To comfort and strengthen the faithful during the spiritual efforts of the Holy Forty Days (Great Lent), the veneration of the…
Chiang Mai, Chiang Mai Province, Thailand, March 25, 2025 St. Vladimir Church, before and after. Photo: dioceseofthailand.org An Orthodox church in Thailand has undergone a dramatic restoration process after being severely damaged by flooding last fall. The city of Chiang Mai, located within the Thai Diocese of the Patriarchal Exarchate of Southeast Asia of…
