Washington, D.C., January 29, 2025 Photo: forbes.com President Trump signed an executive order yesterday banning federal support for “gender transition” procedures for minors. He wrote on Truth Social: Today, it was my great honor to sign an Executive Order banning the chemical castration and medical mutilation of innocent children in the United States of…
Kiev, January 29, 2025 Photo: rtvi.com The canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church won two small court victories regarding the usage of the Holy Dormition-Kiev Caves Lavra on Monday, January 27. The ancient monastery, divided into the Upper and Lower Lavra, has been state owned since Soviet times and is run by the Kiev Caves Lavra…
Olga Alexandrovna Kharabarova at work as an accountant One summer day in 2009, I was called to meet some pilgrims passing through. A man and a bent-over old woman were waiting for me on the porch. Getting acquainted, it turned out that it was Schemanun Vassa (Kharabarova), ninety-five years old, who had come from…
Photo: pravoslavie.ru The Law of God that’s taught in schools isn’t intended to give children knowledge of God (it presupposes that this knowledge already exists)—it only gives children knowledge about God. But since knowledge about God, like any other knowledge, is absorbed only by the mind and memory, studying the Law of God in…
Bucharest, January 29, 2025 Photo: orthodoxwitness.org Only a Pan-Orthodox Synod has the authority to discuss initiatives regarding the date of Pascha, says the Romanian Patriarchate. The Church issued a statement on the matter yesterday in response to recent statements from Pope Francis about finding a common date for all Christendom to celebrate Pascha together….
