Polish Orthodox Church
On the 12 July, memory of the Saint Apostles Peter and Paul, gathering dozens of brethrems and sympathizers, the Divine Liturgy was celebrated by the hierarchs of the Orthodox Church of Brazil, his most Rev. Archbishop Chrisóstomo and Rev. Bishop Ambrósio, assisted by Archimandrite Jerônimo, from Saint Nicholas Monastery, as well as [...]
Polish Orthodox Church
This year’s feast of the Turkowicka Icon of the Theothokos was very special, as for the first time for more than 50 years it was celebrated in an acting, Orthodox monastery.
In 2009 many pilgrims observed major changes that happened in a monastery. A redecorated building, where a monastery church is organized [...]
Chinese Orthodox Church
Archpriest Dionisy Pozdnyaev, who is in charge of the parish of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul in Hong Kong, visited the State Administration of Religious Affairs of the People’s Republic of China in Beijing on July 28th. During the meeting with the Chief of Division 4, Ms. Wang Yanmin, several issues [...]
Chinese Orthodox Church
A procession under the motto “Life for the glory of the Fatherland” will begin in the Primorsky Region on August 14 and will go along the Russia’s border [with China]. It will be dedicated to 200th anniversary of a prominent Russian public figure , Nikolai Muraviev-Amur, the Vladivostok diocese reported to Interfax-Religion. [...]
Moscow, August 4, Interfax – Rector of the Ascension Monastery in the Ukrainian village of Molnitsa in the Chernigov Region Archpriest Mikhail Zhar educates 220 children, including seriously ill babies rejected by their mothers.
There was enough space in Fr. Mikhail’s passport only for the names of 32 children: they have his surname. Meanwhile, he is [...]
Vladimir-Volynsky, August 4, Interfax – Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia believes he has achieved the main goal of his pastoral visit to Ukraine.
“I told that I wanted to pray together with pious Ukrainian people and now when I’m summing up my visit (to Ukraine – IF), I can say that this prayer [...]
Jerusalem, July 31 (ANI): A team of archaeologists has found a unique Aramaic inscription on a stone cup commonly used for ritual purity during the first century, in a dig on Mount Zion in Jerusalem.
According to a report in Jerusalem Post, the six-week excavation is being carried out within the Gan Sobev Homot [...]
Syrian Orthodox Church in India
Ordination to be held Damascus Patriarchal Cathedral on August 23rd
Puthencuriz, July 23, 2009: Very. Rev. P.J Jacob Cor-Episcopo, to be ordained as auxiliary metropolitan for Honavar Mission on 23 August 2009 by His Holiness Patriarch Moran Mor Ignatius Zakka I Iwas at the Monastery of St. Aphrem the Syrian, in [...]
On August 4, 2009 the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church arrived to the Holy Dormition Pochayiv Lavra.
At the holy gates of the famous abode His Holiness the Patriarch was met by His Beatitude Metropolitan Vladimir of Kyiv and All Ukraine, Deputy Abbot of Lavra, Bishop Vladimir of Pochayiv, archpastors and clergymen of the Ukrainian [...]
On August 4, 2009, on the eve of the celebration of the icon of the Mother of God of Pochayiv the all-night vigil service was held with a vast assembly of people in attendance. The liturgical service was conducted by Metropolitan Agathangel of Odessa and Izmayil. The faithful prayed both at the Cathedral and [...]
On August 4, 2009 His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, making archpastoral and pilgrimage trip across the dioceses of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, arrived to Volodymyr-Volynskyi.
In front of the Cathedral of the Holy Dormition His Holiness the Patriarch was met by His Beatitude Metropolitan Vladimir of Kyiv and All Ukraine, [...]
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