In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. We greet you with the continuing days of celebrating the Nativity of our Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ. The Evangelist John, recounting Christ’s final conversation with His disciples, brings us the words of the Divine Teacher: A woman…
Photo: aif.ru It was a long time ago—in the olden days. I can hardly believe it, but, nevertheless, it really did happen. At that time, Grandfather Frost was idly wandering around Holy Russia.1 He was such a mischievous old man—now he would freeze off someone’s nose, now someone’s ear, for no reason at all….
Archimandrite Gherasim (Iscu) On July 11–12, 2024, by the decision of the Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church, sixteen saints of God who shone forth in the twentieth century were canonized. One of them is Archimandrite Gherasim (Iscu), Hesychast of the Communist DungeonsAnd then I saw a miracle. I saw how a half-dead priest,…
The Nativity of Christ and Holy Pascha are primarily children’s feasts, and they seem to fulfill the power of Christ’s words: Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the Kingdom of Heaven (Mt. 18:3). The other feasts are not so accessible to children’s understanding and are pleasing…
Concord, New Hampshire, December 31, 2024 Photo: gtv-cdn.com The local Satanic Temple’s blasphemous display outside the State House in Concord, New Hampshire, has been attacked and destroyed several times by numerous people, including local Orthodox Christian Joshua Cummings. Cummings was apprehended by police last week but says his conscience is clean. “What does it…
Belyaevsky, Odessa Province, Ukraine, December 31, 2024 Fr. Evgeny, Matushka Anna, and their first daughter. Photo: Facebook A priest of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church who was forcibly drafted a week and a half ago has been released. On December 21, on his way home from visiting his wife in the hospital where she had…
Staroe Sandovo, Tver Province – A priest of the Bezhetsk Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church tragically perished in a fire over the weekend. A fire broke out in a residential building in the village of Staroe Sandovo, Tver Province, on Sunday evening. The body of Archpriest Vyacheslav Zernov of the local Church of the Nativity…
Springfield, Virginia – The Holy Synod of the Orthodox Church in America has announced the dates for the glorification services for St. Olga of Alaska. Matushka Olga was canonized by decision of the Holy Synod OCA Synod glorifies Matushka Olga of Alaska among the saints Matushka Olga (†1979) has long been venerated in Alaska, throughout…
Greece, January 2, 2024 Photo: slpress.gr The Greek Orthodox Church faced a record number of attacks in 2023, according to a new report from the General Secretariat for Religious Affairs of the Ministry of Education, Religious Affairs, and Sports. According to the “Report on Incidents against Religious Sites in Greece,” in 2023, 591 incidents…
New York City, U.S. – Ukraine has failed to demonstrate the necessity of the law it Ukraine adopts bill 8371 on banning the Orthodox ChurchThe Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine’s Parliament, voted overwhelmingly today to adopt the infamous bill 8371 on the banning of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church. “Adopted in August to ban the canonical Ukrainian…