Emporio, Santorini, Greece, February 11, 2025 Photo: orthodoxianewsagency.gr As earthquakes continue in Santorini and Amorgos, the Orthodox faithful held a procession with holy icons and relics yesterday, calling on the Lord for relief. A state of emergency has been declared on Santorini as the Greek volcanic island experiences an intense “earthquake swarm,” with over…
Photo: solba.ru Holy Hieromartyr Ioann (Ivan Mikhailovich Granitov) was born in 1875. He was ordained a priest, later elevated to the rank of archpriest, and appointed rector of the Church of St. Nicholas in the stanitsa2 of Talgar, Vernensky Uyezd, Semirechensk province. Holy Hieromartyr Konstantin (Konstantin Ivanovich Zverev) was born in 1881. He graduated…
Archpriest Peter Guryanov is the rector of the Church of the Queen of All Icon of the Mother of God in Dimitrovgrad, Ulyanovsk Province, Russia. He also serves as head of the Information and Publishing Department of the Melekess Diocese, Chairman of the Diocesan Commission on Family, Protection of Motherhood and Childhood, and member of…
Prešov, Slovakia, February 11, 2025 Photo: orthodox.sk The Holy Synod of the Orthodox Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia met in Prešov on January 28, under the chairmanship of His Beatitude Metropolitan Rastislav. Among other matters, the hierarchs addressed the turmoil in Syria. The hierarchs took note of the Patriarch John and Syrian…
Kiev, February 10, 2025 Photo: spzh.eu In May 2019, two months after Vladimir Zelensky was elected President of Ukraine, a group of Ukrainian individuals and organizations published a statement threatening political instability if the head of state were to cross any of their “red lines” in terms of security, foreign policy, economics, national identity,…
