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

Orthodox.cn— While searching online catalogues of ancient books collections of several major universities in China, three rare Chinese Orthodox books have been discovered in the rare book collection of Beijing Normal University. These lithographed editions include: Horologion 《時課經》published 1909 Psalter 《聖詠經》published 1910 Genesis 《創世紀第一書》published 1911 The Orthodox Brotherhood Of Apostles Saints Peter and Paul (Moscow Patriarchate) in

By Katy Moeller The Idaho Statesman BOISE, Idaho — Matthew Garrett makes a living from the tip of his paintbrush. The 34-year-old paints nearly every day, re-creating scenes from the Bible and heavenly images of the risen Jesus, Christian saints and angels on wood and canvas. He carries forward the ancient tradition of

Russia has world's highest rate of abortions Lawmaker says limits needed to reverse population decline Feminists, physicians call for more sex education instead By Alissa de Carbonnel MOSCOW, Nov 8 (Reuters) - Women of all ages used to fill gynecologist Lyubov Yerofeyeva's Soviet state clinic, lined up by the dozen for back-to-back abortions. "It was more common to take sick

A website has been launched to provide information on the new presence of Orthodoxy in Cambodia. Here is the Google translation of the Russian-language site http://cambodia.orthodox.or.th/. The website hopes to expand to a Khmer-language version as well.

Bone box with cross on the lid was likely carried by a believer 1,400 years ago A restorer from the Israel Antiquities Authority displays a Byzantine Christian icon box made of bone with a cross carved on the lid in Jerusalem. JERUSALEM

The Monastery of St John the Harvester (San Giovanni Theristis), a well-known Orthodox saint who lived there some 1,000 years ago, is in the town of Bivongi.

This interview by Nun Nectaria (McLees) originally appeared in Road to Emmaus, Fall, 2009 Fr. Deiniol of All Saints of Wales Orthodox Mission, Blaenau Ffestiniog, Wales. Hieromonk Deiniol, the