527,000 to be received into the Orthodox Church in Guatemala and Mexico | March 9th, 2010
After months of catechetical and pastoral follow-up, the Archiepiscopal Vicar, the Right Reverend Mitered Archimandrite Dr. Andrew (Vujisić), traveled to Guatemala in January 2010 and received Msgr. Andrés Girón and Msgr. Mihail Castellanos of the independent Iglesia Católica Ortodoxa de Guatemala (ICOG), into the Orthodox Church. At that time, guidelines were also established to facilitate
Fr. Alexis Aedo alive and well | March 4th, 2010
According to Bishop John of Caracas and South America, Fr. Alexis and his family are alright, "their house was not destroyed, but everything breakable was."
Chilean priest missing after earthquake | March 1st, 2010
Priest Alexis Aedo Vilugron is missing after an 8.8 magnitude earthquake struck Chile early on Saturday, February 27. Fr. Alexis lives in Concepcion, which sustained most damage from the quake. He oversees the parishes of St. Silouan of Mt. Athos in Concepcion and the parish of St. Nectarios in Santiago
Interview: A Muslim Preacher Converts to Christianity | February 28th, 2010
We’re speaking in London with a new Orthodox Christian who was baptized today with the name Daniel...
Russian Church opened 900 new parishes in 2009 | February 2nd, 2010
Today the Russian Church has 30,142 parishes, 160 dioceses, 207 bishops, total number of clerics is 32,266
Report From Earthquake-Ravaged Haiti | January 22nd, 2010
I arrived in the Dominican Republic on Friday, Jan 15, determined to provide as much aid to Haiti as possible. At the time that I left the US, we had received no word from the clergy in Haiti. Thank God, while I was en route to Haiti, we received word that the clergy were alive
The Russian Church Abroad Helps Haiti | January 22nd, 2010
The fund-raising initiative was assumed by the Fund for Assistance to the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia—an organization that has existed for over 50 years. As such, we help the poorest parishes ROCOR. That we are helping the mission in Haiti is characteristic. It is called "The Russian Mission in Haiti." In fact, there
Murderer becomes leading icon painter in Russian penal colonies | January 21st, 2010
Sergey Derevenschikov, a convict of the Rossosh penal colony, who serves a 17-year sentence for double slaying, goes “on business trips” to paint prison churches.
Appeal for Haiti | January 17th, 2010
ROCOR's mission in Haiti has nearly 2000 members. We have been trying to reach our priests there, but so far no luck. Most of the telephone towers in Haiti have been destroyed or damaged.
Haiti Tragedy: Statement by the First Hierarch of the Russian Church Abroad | January 16th, 2010
New York - It was with pain in my heart that I learned of the terrible catastrophe that has befallen the people of Haiti, and wish to express my profound empathy with the anguish felt by all the island’s occupants, and especially our brothers and sisters carrying on their service to God and man within