Bishop calls for prayers amid Madagascar unrest
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Bishop Prodromos of Toliara and Southern Madagascar of the Patriarchate of Alexandria issued an urgent plea for prayers on Friday as violent protests grip Madagascar, leaving five protesters dead according to hospital sources.

Prague: 90th anniversary of Orthodox cathedral with Czech and Serbian hierarchs (+VIDEO)
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The Liturgy was followed by the opening of a photo exhibition dedicated to the consecration of the cathedral as an Orthodox church in 1935.

First Orthodox village inaugurated in Tanzania
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The village’s first phase consists of 10 residential units designated for single mothers with children and elderly residents without family support. The housing project addresses Tanzania’s widespread poverty, where many families currently live in mud huts.

Poltava Holy Cross Monastery celebrates 375th anniversary
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The monastery was founded in honor of the Cossacks’ victory over the forces of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and became the southernmost of the regimental monasteries of the 17th-century Hetmanate.

Sermon on the Feast of the Martyrs Faith, Hope, Love and Their Mother Sophia
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Archimandrite Kirill (Pavlov)

The feat of martyrdom for Christ is at the very pinnacle of Christian virtue.

Pan-Orthodox crowdfunding launched
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Commonwealth, a new Orthodox crowdfunding platform, is having a direct impact upon Orthodox families facing financial hardship around the country.

Damage to Athonite monasteries after nearly two years of earthquakes
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Damage to arches and vaults, domes and cupolas, chimneys and masonry are among the problems recorded in inspections carried out at Mt. Athos monasteries following a long series of earthquakes.

Call for prayer and fasting ahead of court case in state’s war against the Ukrainian Orthodox Church
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The Metropolitan noted that today the Sixth Administrative Court of Appeal will begin judicial proceedings today on a lawsuit filed by Ukraine’s State Service for Ethnopolitics and Freedom of Conscience, the ultimate goal of which is to ban the activities of the Kiev Metropolia of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church.

Shostakovich. Leningrad. Music of the Strength of Spirit
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Anastasia Grishunina

This work became a symbol of the victory of the human spirit, a symbol of resistance to fascism in the language of music.

“Here we have a kind of heavenly eminence”
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Nun Cornelia (Rees), Seraphim Collins, Ph.D.

The world became completely fallen, and God was somewhere else. But in Orthodoxy it’s much more complicated than that.

Stay in the Church at All Costs!
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Savva Tống (Duệ Uyên)

Be patient in every trial, hold fast to the Church as a child holds the hand of his mother. For this is the only place satan cannot overcome, this is Noah’s Ark, this is the Bride of the Lamb, this is the New Jerusalem coming down from heaven.

Macedonian bishop leads Liturgy with clergy from five Local Churches at Serbian parish in France
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Orthodox faithful of various nationalities attended the Liturgy, demonstrating the supranational character of the Orthodox Church.

New Romanian feasts honor wonderworking icons of the Theotokos
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The Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church met on September 29-30 and approved the establishment of two feast days honoring wonderworking icons of the Mother of God: the Icon of the Mother of God of Craiova and the Icon of the Mother of God of Dintr-un Lemn Monastery.

800th anniversary of Serbian monastery in Romania
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The solemn celebration took place on the feast day of St. Joseph of Timișoara, diocesan patron.

Five primates attend opening of “Theologia” journal conference on theology and technology
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The conference will run for several days and focuses on the interaction between theology, society, and technology in the modern era, particularly examining challenges posed by artificial intelligence and digital transformation.

Arson attack completely destroys Ukrainian Orthodox church in Alberta (+VIDEO)
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A nearly century-old Ukrainian Orthodox church in rural Alberta was completely destroyed by arson on September 21, 2025, as part of what police describe as a crime spree in the Bellis area northeast of Edmonton.

Planned visit to Mt. Athos by schismatic Dumenko sparks division among monasteries
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The planned visit has reportedly provoked strong reactions within the Sacred Community, particularly given the ongoing persecution of clergy, monastics, and faithful of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church under the Zelensky government.