Prince Charles hosts reception for Hilandari Monastery appeal | July 30th, 2011
A fundraising reception for the reconstruction of the Serbian Hilandari Monastery on Mount Athos was held on July 28th at the home of the family of the Prince of Wales.
Russian Church calls for condemnation of Stalin, Lenin crimes | July 25th, 2011
Russia will not have a decent future unless "the criminals - Stalin, Lenin, Trotsky, Uritsky, Sverdlov - who organized the Red Terror and Stalin repressions, are named."
The Russian Church is against becoming a state religion | July 25th, 2011
"We do not want the (Church) to become part of the state apparatus, state machinery, to assume secular functions," Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin said.
Italian Catholics often transfer their empty churches to the Russian church | July 19th, 2011
"Catholic churches in Italy that don't have parishioners are often given to us to use. The appearance of so many Orthodox parishes has become possible thanks to the help of the Catholic Church that gives us premises for prayer."
Reaching out in Paraguay | May 31st, 2011
The greatest concentration of Ukrainian Orthodox is in the small town of Fram... Weaving their Ukrainian culture and traditions with their Orthodox Faith, they demonstrate order and discipline, and have become an exemplary town throughout Paraguay.
IOCC reaches out in aftermath of severe weather, fires | May 3rd, 2011
IOCC: Baltimore, Maryland, April 29, 2011 — Following a historic series of storms in the southern United States that claimed the lives of more than 200 people, International Orthodox Christian Charities (IOCC) has been in contact with Orthodox Christian communities and partner organizations in
Serbian Orthodox Nuns Learn Language of Albanian Muslims | April 12th, 2011
by Ismet Hajdari
BOLETIN, Kosovo (AFP)— A Serb Orthodox monastery in religiously polarised Kosovo is breaking stereotypes by making its nuns learn Albanian so they can talk to Muslim villagers who come to pray at a statue of the Virgin Mary.
Muslims from
Ukraine sends the Chernobyl Icon of Christ to Japan | April 5th, 2011
KIEV , Interfax — Donetsk department of the NGO
Soyuz Chernobyl of Ukraine has transferred to Japan the Chernobyl Icon of the Savior.
The ceremony was held in the national opera and ballet theatre. Department head Evgeny Struzhko handed over the holy image to Michiko Terada, director of
75 of 100 victims of religious intolerance are Christians, says Metropolitan Hilarion | March 24th, 2011
MOSCOW, Interfax - Head of the Synodal Department for External Church Relations Metropolitan Hilarion cited data according to which Christians prevail among victims of religious intolerance.
"According to the data of non-governmental organization Aid To The Church In Need 75 of 100 victims killed from religious intolerance have been Christians in recent years," the Metropolitan said
Archbishop Kyrill’s Appeal Concerning the Earthquake in Japan | March 19th, 2011
Dear Fathers, Brothers and Sisters of the Western American Diocese! A terrible disaster took part in Japan on the first week of Great Lent: earthquakes shook the country, then a tsunami roared ashore and, as a result of both, nuclear plants suffered serious damage which has not been contained. The whole world is following the