OCA, ROCOR, and ACROD clergy lead pro-life prayer vigils in New York
https://orthochristian.com/172784.html

Orthodox Christians Pro-Life, a nonprofit organization, regularly holds prayer vigils outside abortion facilities in New York City, at least once a month.

“One Another” is the Path to Salvation, “Every Man For Himself” is the Road to Hell
https://orthochristian.com/172825.html

Metropolitan Luke (Kovalenko) of Zaporozhye and Melitopol

Love is not merely sympathy or compassion—it is carrying another’s cross.

On the Temptation of Externalizing the Faith
https://orthochristian.com/172791.html

Savva Tống (Duệ Uyên)

The sad thing here is not that “the Church is not extreme enough for them,” but that their Christian view has moved away from the center of Faith—where the Risen Christ is.

Canada: Romanian and Serbian hierarchs consecrate summer altar at Romanian monastery
https://orthochristian.com/172822.html

The monastery began construction on the outdoor altar in the summer of 2022. It is dedicated to Sts. Paisie and Cleopa of Sihăstria, who were canonized during the Romanian Patriarchate’s Centennial, and to St. Irodion of Lainici.

Miraculous awakening in Uganda: Orthodox mission grows following series of dreams
https://orthochristian.com/172817.html

The Russian Orthodox Church’s Exarchate of Africa is witnessing a spiritual awakening in the town of Mbale in eastern Uganda, where dozens of people—including several from Muslim backgrounds—have embraced the Orthodox faith following a series of extraordinary events.

Court denies UOC’s request for injunction in Church dissolution case
https://orthochristian.com/172831.html

The Sixth Administrative Court of Appeal has denied the Ukrainian Orthodox Church’s request for an injunction in the case concerning the termination of its activities.

“The Lord Is Waiting for Us in Heaven.” On St. Silouan the Athonite
https://orthochristian.com/172839.html

Hieromonk Platon (Kudlasevich)

Having received a special grace and been vouchsafed to see God once, afterwards St. Silouan felt a longing for the Creator and strove in every possible way to please Him and regain the grace that the Lord had abundantly bestowed upon him in his youth when he worked as a novice at the mill of St. Panteleimon’s Monastery on Mt. Athos.

Ukrainian Metropolitan calls out Patriarch Bartholomew’s silence about persecution by OCU he created
https://orthochristian.com/172829.html

Met. Theodosy describes his diocese as “one of the most affected dioceses in the Ukrainian Orthodox Church” by the OCU “thieves and robbers.”

Orthodox Christians participate in 5th annual Pennsylvania March for Life
https://orthochristian.com/172834.html

Orthodox Christians from across Pennsylvania joined thousands of pro-life advocates at the state Capitol in Harrisburg on September 22 for the 5th annual Pennsylvania March for Life rally.

St. Silouan the Athonite
https://orthochristian.com/172841.html

“Without Repentance and Humility There Can Be No Spiritual Growth”
https://orthochristian.com/172844.html

In Memory of Protopriest Maxim Ivanov
Olga Izhenyakova

He did everything with an unfailing smile, in which one could read: “I love you”

Consecrations mark patronal feast of Nativity of the Theotokos at two European monasteries
https://orthochristian.com/172845.html

Two Orthodox monasteries in France and Germany marked their patronal feast of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos on September 21, with special consecration ceremonies.

Diocese of Alaska establishes Spruce Island Books as official press to support Alaskan missions (+VIDEO)
https://orthochristian.com/172852.html

The partnership’s inaugural publication is Daily Prayers of the Orthodox Church, a prayer book featuring morning and evening prayers, prayer rules from the Holy Fathers, and the newly composed Akathist to St. Olga of Alaska.

Romanian Orthodox church consecrated for growing parish in Chile
https://orthochristian.com/172848.html

A newly constructed Romanian Orthodox church in Concepción, Chile, was consecrated this weekend in a service led by His Eminence Metropolitan Nicolae of the Romanian Orthodox Archdiocese of the Americas, marking a significant milestone for the growing Orthodox community in South America.

Relics of newly canonized Serbian holy hierarch uncovered
https://orthochristian.com/172840.html

The relics of the recently canonized St. Nikodim Milaš, bishop of Dalmatia, were solemnly uncovered on September 20, in the Church of the Holy Savior in Šibenik, Croatia.

Three Nuns, One Destiny
https://orthochristian.com/172878.html

Olga Sokirkina

These women lived during the period of militant atheism—the persecution of the Church and the repression of the clergy and the faithful.

Where the Soul Finds Everything it Needs
https://orthochristian.com/172881.html

A Homily at the Consecration of a Church
Hieromartyr Thaddeus (Uspensky)

Man can’t live without roof and shelter, without which he would suffer from cold, bad weather, wind, etc. And the holy Church leads him into the spiritual dwelling of the church of God, where the soul warms itself and returns to life, having been chilled as if completely frozen from the cold, from the “winter of passions.”