Category: Religion

Tirana, March 31, 2025 Photo: Radio Ngjalla The Albanian Orthodox Church celebrated the enthronement of its new primate on Saturday, March 29, at the Cathedral… Read More

Faisalabad, Punjab Province, Pakistan, March 31, 2025 Orthodox Church in Pakistan      More than three dozen new Orthodox Christians were baptized and chrismated in Pakistan… Read More

Slovyansk, Donetsk Province, Ukraine, March 31, 2025 Photo: rbk.ru      Ukrainian courts have extended the detention of His Eminence Metropolitan Arseny of Svyatogorsk of the… Read More

Kiev, March 31, 2025 Photo: was.media      On Friday, a state commission was sent to the Holy Dormition-Kiev Caves Lavra to “inspect” the incorrupt relics… Read More

After winning the prestigious Orwell Prize for Political Writing for his 2023 novel “The Picnic” (W. W. Norton & Company, $28.95), author Matthew Longo wrote… Read More

Athens, March 31, 2025 Photo: orthodoxwitness.org At its session earlier this month, the Holy Synod of the Church of Greece unanimously accepted the proposal to… Read More

   Repentance is our reconciliation with God —St. John Climacus Lent is a time of repentance—a time when our stony hearts should be transformed by… Read More

Self-portrait, by Y.A. Orlov. 2018. Oil on canvas. 110×80 cm. From the author’s private collection The Russian Academy of Fine Arts recently featured an exhibition… Read More

This article could be jokingly entitled, “A Friend Among Strangers, a Stranger Among Friends, or a Tale about How an Orthodox Woman Was Looking for… Read More

On March 29, the Russian Orthodox Church honors the memory of St. Serapion, Archbishop of Novgorod. St. Serapion was born in the fifteenth century in… Read More