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…
Minneapolis, Minnesota, March 19, 2025 Photo: Orthodox Journeys A new curriculum for students in grades K-12 explores the life of St. Tikhon, Apostle to America and Patriarch of Moscow, just in time for the 100th anniversary of his martyrdom on April 7. The curriculum includes over 100 pages of content with 13 different activities….
There is no other path to salvation but love for God and neighbor.He who loves God strives to fulfill His commandments. He who loves his neighbor strives to serve him.In this simplicity lies the whole mystery of spiritual life. —Schema-Archimandrite Iliy (Nozdrin) On March 15, 2025, in his ninety-fourth year of life, the revered…
A great missionary and preacher of the twentieth century, the “Serbian Chrysostom”, Bishop Nikolai Velimirovich: Serbia’s New ChrysostomWhile the mere facts of Bishop Nikolai’s life inspire awe, such a skeletal portrait does not explain his spiritual magnetism and the soul-penetrating power of his writings. These were the fruit of his life-long striving to know and…
I heard this story in one of the towns of the Nizhny Novrogod Region. We had come there to attend a church-affiliated social event, which also included a luncheon. Once seated at the table, the participants of the event, among them the believers, the church well wishers and probably some who had little to do…
Skopje, North Macedonia, March 18, 2025 Photo: mpc-spe.mk The Holy Synod of the Macedonian Orthodox Church-Ohrid Archbishopric issued a statement yesterday expressing its profound grief over the tragic fire in Kočani that claimed many young lives. While acknowledging the impossibility of adequate human consolation, the hierarchs offer spiritual comfort through faith that the deceased…
Kozelsk, Kaluga Province, Russia, March 17, 2025 Photo: Foma Elder Iliy (Nozdrin), the most beloved and revered elder of the Russian Church, reposed in the Lord on Saturday night, March 15. He was 93 years old at the time of his repose, Optina Monastery reports. Schema-Archimandrite Iliy spent decades laboring in asceticism at Pskov…
Tirana, March 17, 2025 Photo: romfea.gr The Holy Synod of the Orthodox Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Albania elected a new primate on Sunday to succeed the Archbishop Anastasios of Albania reposes in the LordHis Beatitude Archbishop Anastasios of Tirana, Durrës, and All Albania reposed in the Lord this morning at the age of 95….
Belgrade, March 17, 2025 Photo: BBC The Holy Synod of the Serbian Orthodox Church issued a statement on Friday calling for peace and dialogue amidst months of anti-government protests. The next day, the largest protest ever in Serbia took place in Belgrade, according to the BBC. The government put the number of attendees at…
Prague, March 17, 2025 Photo: uoc-news.church His Eminence Archbishop Michael of Prague and the Czech Lands celebrated the 10th anniversary of his episcopal consecration this weekend. In addition to clergy of the Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia, the Archbishop was joined by three hierarchs and clergy of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church…
