Tag: Christianity
Faisalabad, Punjab Province, Pakistan, March 31, 2025 Orthodox Church in Pakistan More than three dozen new Orthodox Christians were baptized and chrismated in Pakistan recently. A mass Baptismal …
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 canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church …
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 that lie in the …
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 a reflection that included …
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 canonize a beloved 20th-century …
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 the power of God …
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 of work by Yuri …
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 a Church Among Mosques.” …
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 the village of Pekhorka1 …
Nearly a week after being discharged from the hospital, Pope Francis continues to make slow but steady improvement, however, it is still unclear whether he will be able to …