Metropolis of Chios provides $175,000 in aid to fire victims
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The fires on Chios broke out on June 22, 2025, in multiple locations including Kofinas, Agia Anna, Agios Makarios, and Agios Markos. The blazes forced the evacuation of at least 16 villages and burned over 11,000 acres of forest and agricultural land.

North Little Rock parish launches campaign to purchase historic church building
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The property under consideration is a traditionally built, east-facing former Lutheran church located minutes from the parish’s current location.

Museum honoring Metropolitan Antony Bashir, former head of Antiochian Archdiocese of New York, opens in his birthplace in Lebanon
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The museum is housed in the home where Met. Antony was born on March 15, 1898, to Joseph and Zaina Bashir. The building now contains icons, vestments, books, and sacred artifacts from his life and ministry.

New Book: Who Should We Listen to Regarding Contraceptives and the Avoidance of Having Children?
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Another book presenting the Orthodox Church’s traditional stance on contraceptives is now available.

Four more Orthodox churches forcibly seized in Ukraine since late September
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The Ukrainian state and schismatic-nationalists continue their campaign of persecution against the Orthodox Church. Hundreds of churches have been violently overtaken over the past few years, often with clergy and the faithful being left broken and bloody.

Two Saints of God
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Sermon on the feast of the Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian and St. Tikhon, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia
Hieromonk Agafangel (Davlatov)

What unites and distinguishes these two men? It is their love—love for God, love for people, love for the Church and for the whole universe.

Patriarchate of Alexandria canonizes two new saints
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The newly canonized are St. Silvester, Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria, and St. Chrysostomos (Papasarantopoulos).

The Popov Brothers—St. Tikhon’s Co-Laborers During the American Period of His Ministry
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Priest Stakhiy Trufanov

Fr. Peter became a faithful assistant to His Grace Tikhon during the American period of his ministry.

Double attack on Pochaev Lavra: SBU search and seizure attempt on same day
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The Ukrainian government and schismatics continue their campaign against the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church. Yesterday provided two more such examples when security forces carried out a search and nationalists attempted a seizure at one of the Church’s most important monasteries.

Serbian and ROCOR hierarchs celebrate 850th anniversary of St. Sava’s birth at Mileševa Monastery
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Hierarchs from the Serbian Orthodox Church and the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia gathered at Mileševa Monastery on October 6-7, to celebrate multiple commemorations, including the 850th anniversary of the birth of St. Sava, the first Archbishop of Serbia and spiritual father of the Serbian Church.

Brazil: Polish mission seeks funds to build first Orthodox church in Minas Gerais interior
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A newly ordained priest and a small Orthodox community in Timóteo, Minas Gerais, are working to establish what would be the only Orthodox church in the interior of Brazil’s second-most populous state.

Macedonian hierarchs join Patriarch Kirill for Liturgy on feast of St. Sergius of Radonezh (+VIDEO)
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This was the first time that Macedonian hierarchs served with the Russian primate since the Russian Orthodox Church recognized the autocephaly of the Macedonian Church in August 2022.

“I came back a different person:” the Story of a Trip that Transformed a Life
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Valeria Anpilova

Several months have passed since my trip. I felt an urge to go to church and have now started attending regularly. I have long sensed that God exists, so I was as if living in anticipation of the right moment to come to Him.

Radical Jews lodge complaint about Christian symbols at Holy Land site
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The recent dispute arose after the Mission conducted minor repair work and added small crosses to the stairway railings leading into the cave.

Ukrainian state seizes Volyn cathedral, seminary, administration buildings from Orthodox Church
https://orthochristian.com/173201.html

At 6:00 a.m., special police units provided state executors with the opportunity to forcibly evict the Vladimir-Volynsky diocesan administration of the UOC, the religious community of the Dormition Cathedral, and students of the choir director school from the occupied premises.

Germany: Orthodox multi-generational housing project planned near monastery (+VIDEO)
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The project, operating under the name Lioba Leben e.V., aims to provide housing for people at all stages of life, from young families with small children and single individuals to elderly residents requiring care.

Patriarchate of Alexandria calls for peace amid conflicts in Africa and Middle East
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The Holy Synod of the Patriarchate of Alexandria, under the presidency of Patriarch Theodoros, issued a statement calling for peace following extensive discussions on military conflicts in Africa and the Middle East.

GOARCH joins Let Children Live campaign for Palestinian children
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According to the campaign organizers, more than 2 million children live under brutal oppression in these territories. The campaign aims to move beyond viewing these children as statistics by encouraging Christian communities to pray for them by name and engage in advocacy on their behalf.