Russia, March 18, 2025 Photo: obsheedelo.ru Volunteers from the project Common Cause: Revival of Wooden Churches of the North and specialists from the Kizhi Museum-Preserve managed to save 37 wooden churches of the Russian North in 2024. These results were summarized at a meeting with the Kizhi Museum director Elena Bogdanova and the founder…
Cooperstown, New York, March 18, 2025 Photo: damascenepress.org Damascene Press is republishing the best-selling collection of St. Ephraim the Syrian’s prayers compiled by St. Theophan the Recluse. It is now available for free download as an eBook and for purchase in printed editions from damascenepress.org. Damascene Press is operated by the Lambertsen Foundation, which was…
Tallinn, March 19, 2025 Photo: Met. Stephanos of Constantinople’s EAOC. Photo: err.ee In a new statement from its Public Relations Department, the Patriarchate of Constantinople’s Estonian Apostolic Orthodox Church (EAOC) came out in support of a ban on the larger Estonian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, calling it a move to “strengthen national…
Hastings, England, March 18, 2025 The building being purchased. Photo: justgiving.com The parish of the All-Merciful Saviour of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia in Hastings, England, has outgrown its current small building, which was built largely by the parishioners themselves less than three years ago. The parish “grows each month in size…
Kozelsk, Kaluga Province, Russia, March 19, 2025 Photo: optina.ru The farewell to the deeply beloved and revered elder Schema-Archimandrite Iliy (Nozdrin) took place at Optina Monastery yesterday. Elder Iliy Elder Iliy reposes in the Lord—Russian Church’s most revered elder (+VIDEO)Elder Iliy (Nozdrin), the most beloved and revered elder of the Russian Church, reposed in…
Râmeț Alba County, Transylvania, Romania, March 19, 2025 Photo: reintregirea.ro The relics of another one of the Romanian Church’s newly canonized saints of the 20th century were uncovered yesterday. The uncovering of the relics of St. Dometie of Râmeț at Sts. Peter and Paul Monastery in Râmeț, Transylvania, yesterday is at least the third…
