The Catholic churches of the Holy Land plan to observe Easter according to the Orthodox calendar, the head of the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land has announced. The change could come as early as next year. Father Pierbattista Pizzabella explained that the change was prompted by a desire to strengthen ecumenical ties between Catholics and

Church vestments, vessels and books will be sent from Moscow to Father John Tanveer, the only Russian Orthodox priest in Pakistan. Material help was collected by the Cyril and Methodius Mission Charitable Foundation and Missionary Department of Saint Tikhon's Orthodox University of

Father Antonios Mutyaba Leaving Kampala’s chaotic streets and the usual bustle of cars and moto taxis, brick houses give way to thatched huts and then brambles. Dwarf trees and giant grasses flank the road, stretching to a horizon broken

MOSCOW (RIA Novosti) —Priests with the Russian Airborne Troops will take a crash course next week to operate the world’s only paradrop Orthodox Christian church, the military said. The one-week course for the priests, many of whom are experienced paratroopers

Nanticoke, Penn. — As the Rev. Adam Sexton consecrated the communion bread Sunday at church, his eldest son rushed to the altar to tell him their home next door was engulfed in flames. Without hesitation, Sexton knew what to do: continue the service. "It doesn't matter what happens. I have to center my attention on consecrating

Father Adrian Augustus, who is the special missionary sent by His Eminence Metropolitan Hilarion, paid a visit in Sargodha and laid the foundation stone of “The Archangel Michael Russian Orthodox Mission.”

On February 9, 2012, Archbishop Mark of Yegoryevsk, director of the Moscow Patriarchate’s office for institutions abroad, who is on a visit to Thailand, consecrated the church dedicated to the Dormition of the Mother of God at the Monastery of the Dormition in Ratchaburi. With the blessing of His Holiness

The Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops of North and Central America, which is comprised of the 65 canonical Orthodox bishops in the United States, Canada and Mexico, join their voices with the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops

SYOSSET, NY [OCA] — His Beatitude, Metropolitan Jonah, Primate of the Orthodox Church in America, and His Eminence, Metropolitan Hilarion, First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, concelebrated the Divine Liturgy for the first time at

Metropolitah Hilarion, First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, and Metropolitan Jonah, Primate of the Orthodox Church in America. Since the normalization of ties between the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia and the