Ashley, Pennsylvania, March 20, 2025 Bp. Saba with the now-deposed Abbess Aemilane. Photo: saintnina-monastery.org The Georgian Orthodox Diocese in North America has defrocked and removed the heads of three of its monasteries in America. The diocese announced on Tuesday: To the faithful of our Holy Diocese, we announce that, as of March 17 of…
In 2017, Pravoslavie.ru published this article by Olga OrlovaOrlova, Olga “>Olga Orlova on Schema-Archimandrite Iliy (Nozdrin)Iliy (Nozdrin), Schema-Archimandrite”>Schema-Archimandrite Iliy (Nozdrin), who had just turned eighty-five. He was born fifteen years after the beginning of the Bolshevik revolution, precisely on the day it began. His name day, which according to Orthodox tradition falls on the eighth…
The Life and Blessing of Elder IliyHis entire life was marked by the protection of the Most Holy Theotokos, and everything he did was in fulfillment of the will of the Sovereign Lady for the strengthening of his homeland. “>Part 1 Then came ten years of ascetic life on Mount Athos. Whenever people tried…
St. Gregory of Shlisselburg It’s natural for a living Christian soul to aspire to God. The aspiration for God finds its expression first of all in prayer to God. On PrayerWhat should someone do who doesn’t know any prayers, but desires to pray, to save his soul? “>Prayer is an appeal to God, a conversation…
Cherkasy, Cherkasy Province, Ukraine, March 19, 2025 Photo: news.church.ua The persecuted Metropolitan Theodosy of Cherkasy of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church has finally been released from nighttime house arrest after two years of such restrictions on his movements. At first, His Eminence was under around-the-clock house arrest Persecuted Ukrainian hierarch returns to ministry after 8…
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…
