Estonian President petitions Supreme Court to declare anti-Orthodox law unconstitutional
https://orthochristian.com/173077.html

According to the President’s assessment, the law continues to contradict the Estonian Constitution and disproportionately restricts freedom of association and religion.

OCA, ROCOR, and Moscow Patriarchate concelebrate 100th anniversary pilgrimage to Fort Ross
https://orthochristian.com/173075.html

Fort Ross was the site of the first Orthodox Baptisms, Weddings, and catechumens in the contiguous United States.

Persecuted Metropolitan Arseny urgently needs heart surgery
https://orthochristian.com/173043.html

The Metropolitan was long denied the right to medical care while in custody. Only last month did a court order that he receive his necessary care.

Former Metropolitan of Kition Chrysostomos reposes in the Lord
https://orthochristian.com/173081.html

Metropolitan Chrysostomos, former bishop of Kition, reposed yesterday, October 5, at the age of 87.

Two Christians killed in armed attack in Syrian village
https://orthochristian.com/173080.html

Masked gunmen opened fire on a group of young people gathered near the local village head’s office, killing two Orthodox men, Wissam George and Shafiq Rafiq Mansour, who were cousins, and seriously wounding a third man, Pierre Hariqis.

The Grandeur of Holy Simplicity. Part 1
https://orthochristian.com/173078.html

On the Life of St. Innocent of Moscow, Enlightener of Alaska
Galina Gulichkina

The saint’s life path was one of ceaseless and arduous labor—of his nearly eighty-two years of life, forty-five were spent on the road, preaching the Word of God to the peoples of the Far North of Russia, Alaska, and the Aleutian Islands.

Romanian Church celebrates canonization of Sts. Dumitru Stăniloae and Ilarion Felea (+VIDEOS)
https://orthochristian.com/173074.html

The Romanian Orthodox Church held local proclamations this weekend for the canonization of two 20th-century saints: St. Dumitru Stăniloae on Saturday and St. Ilarion Felea on Sunday.

Time That Is Lost Forever
https://orthochristian.com/173112.html

Artemy Slezkin

Prayers are the unbreakable “steel threads” that we use to “stitch ourselves” to eternity.

The Grandeur of Holy Simplicity. Part 2
https://orthochristian.com/173110.html

On the Life of St. Innocent of Moscow, Enlightener of Alaska
Galina Gulichkina

N.P. Rozanov, a professor at the Moscow Theological Seminary, recalled Metropolitan Innocent:“The new metropolitan, himself having come from the ranks of parish clergy, understood their needs. He did not demand absolute silence from the clergy when he spoke and would willingly engage them in conversation—even occasionally joking."

Ukrainian priest attacked with axe during Divine Liturgy
https://orthochristian.com/173127.html

The attack took place during the Little Entrance, when the priest was standing in the Royal Doors.

Beloved Serbian Hieromonk Filotej laid to rest at New Gračanica Monastery
https://orthochristian.com/173129.html

Hieromonk Filotej (Radosav Petrović), a long-serving clergyman of the Serbian Orthodox Diocese of New Gračanica–Midwestern America reposed in the Lord on September 28, at the age of 84.

Romanian Orthodox church consecrated in Sacramento (+VIDEO)
https://orthochristian.com/173128.html

The Church of the Resurrection in Sacramento was consecrated on Sunday by His Eminence Metropolitan Nicolae of the Romanian Orthodox Metropolia of the Americas, fulfilling a long-held dream for the Romanian community in the region.

Paris: Renovated Romanian monastery reconsecrated—three hierarchs concelebrate
https://orthochristian.com/173101.html

The Rosiers monastic establishment, the first monastery of Romanian tradition in the West, was founded in 1991 and reorganized during his doctoral studies in France by Archimandrite Ioachim (Giosanu), assisted by several willing persons and families.