Ukrainian bishop and priest physically attacked by recruitment officers
42 hours ago
TCC employees began forcibly pulling Met. Vladimir from the car without first checking any documents. When Fr. Alexander attempted to protect the Metropolitan, recruitment officers used pepper spray against him, forced him to his knees, and beat h...

Priest attacked with knife at Russian cathedral
46 hours ago
Law enforcement authorities quickly apprehended the attacker at the scene. The assailant is believed to suffer from mental illness.

Court orders seizure of Ukrainian Orthodox Church monastery buildings in Krem...
46 hours ago
A Ukrainian court has ruled against an Orthodox monastery, ordering that it surrender its buildings to the state.

Macedonian Orthodox European Diocese acquires new church building in Switzerland
49 hours ago
The purchase agreement for a church building for the Most Holy Theotokos parish community in Locarno was officially signed on May 6, the feast of St. George.

OCA Synod issues updated social media guidelines for clergy and lay leaders
50 hours ago
The revised guidelines apply to clergy, employees, and lay leaders serving in dioceses, parishes, monasteries, seminaries, and institutions of the Orthodox Church in America.

Bulgaria to invest €62.5 million in rural churches and monasteries
71 hours ago
The initiative seeks to preserve spiritual and cultural heritage while improving living conditions in less populated regions.

Lord, it is Good to be Here: Building Orthodox Culture in America
1041 hours ago
A video of my keynote address, given at the Paideia Conference in June 2025, is now available. My talk is titled “Lord, it is Good to be Here: Building Orthodox Culture in America”. In it, I discuss the full history of Orthodox church building i...

New Liturgical Handbook Illuminates the Heart of Orthodox Worship
1449 hours ago
A groundbreaking new resource for Eastern Orthodox Christians has been published, offering clergy, laity, and inquirers an in-depth yet accessible guide to the Orthodox Church’s divine services. Titled The Divine Services of the Orthodox Church ...

Image and Awe
1780 hours ago
It is and it is not. An image is like its subject but also unlike it. Through its likeness, a sacred image helps us to establish relationship with its subject, while through its unlikeness it suggests the subject’s otherness. This journal of lit...

The King’s Iconographer on Hierarchy, Beauty, and the Crisis of Modern Art
2073 hours ago
I had the privilege of interviewing world-renowned iconographer Aidan Hart. We discussed his time as a hermit, his career as an iconographer, his relationship with King Charles, and his artistic influences. I was particularly enlightened hearing...

From Popsicle Sticks to Iconostasis: Art of an Argentine Master Craftsman
3057 hours ago
“As a child I was always trying to build things with my hands.” To satisfy his desire to make things and to keep her young son occupied while she was busy with household matters, his mother bought him a huge supply of popsicle sticks. Ulises Jua...

The Church Gesamtkunstverk: Harmony of the Arts in the Church of St. Onuphriu...
3779 hours ago
Gesamtkunstwerk, or “total work of art,” is a term popularized by the opera-composer Richard Wagner to describe the ideal integration of multiple art forms into a single creative vision. Clear to the Orthodox Christian, the Divine Liturgy is the...

Group Baptism in DR Congo—125+ united to Christ
112 hours ago
Photo: Romfea     Another mass Baptism was celebrated in the Democratic Republic of the Congo this week, with more than 125 people being received into the Church. OrthoChristian reported on the reception of 210 catechumens into the Church in the D...

Wave of Baptisms and Chrismations across America on Lazarus and Holy Saturdays
468 hours ago
114 people were received into the Church at St. Andrew Orthodox Church in Riverside, CA. Photo: Patristic Nectar     Hundreds or even thousands of people were received into the Orthodox Church throughout Lent, and particularly on Lazarus and Holy ...

Mass Conversions Around the World
468 hours ago
At the Serbian Orthodox cathedral in Buenos Aires. Photo: spc.rs     The number of converts to the Orthodox Church has risen dramatically in recent years. Social media was flooded during Holy and Bright Weeks with posts from churches across Americ...

Six young Colombians baptized in mountain parish
2555 hours ago
Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia, January 23, 2026 Over the weekend of January 17-18, the small but vibrant Serbian Orthodox parish of the Holy Trinity in Medellín, Colombia witnessed a series of celebrations culminating in the Baptism of six young p...

“To My Protestant Friends”
2797 hours ago
by Vicki Marshall After over 25 years of walking out my faith within Protestant Christianity, my family and I have recently—and prayerfully—entered the Eastern Orthodox Church. I know this may come as a surprise and raise questions about how this ...

New Orthodox chapel established in Omaha
4139 hours ago
The Orthodox Church in America opened a new chapel in Omaha earlier this month. Approximately 35 worshippers attended the first Divine Liturgy at the St. Tikhon Chapel in Omaha on Saturday, November 8, the feast of the Synaxis of the Archangel Mic...

Scotland’s first Orthodox Christian School has Opened in Edinburgh
4668 hours ago
Scotland’s first Orthodox Christian primary school has opened in Edinburgh, offering pupils a traditional, faith-based education rooted in classical learning. St. Andrew’s Orthodox Church School, based at Craigmillar Park Church in Newington, welc...

Patriarch of Alexandria baptizes 100 catechumens in Southern Madagascar
5628 hours ago
Toliara, Madagascar, September 17, 2025 Photo: ?nyxthimeron.com     Patriarch Theodoros of Alexandria and All Africa celebrated the holy Sacrament of Baptism for 100 catechumens from the Patriarchate of Alexandria’s Diocese of Toliara and Southern...

How to Be Nothing: Humility, Self-Confidence, and Restoring Love and Joy to t...
43060 hours ago

“Not as the world gives, do I give unto you” (John 14:27). But does this promise of our Lord apply not only to His peace, but to other blessings as well. Could it be, for example, that the self-confidence of a Christian needs to be very different ...

On Pascha We Receive An Invitation To Eternal Life
44025 hours ago

Many readers will recognize Metropolitan Tikhon (Shevkunov) as the author of the buoyant, inspiring, and irresistible book “Everyday Saints and Other Stories,” which sold record numbers of copies in Russia and has been translated into 17 languages...

Return to Paradise: The How and Why of Fasting
44658 hours ago

We are now well into the Holy and Great Fast of Lent, but for many of us it may have already begun to seem tedious: a routine and perhaps even empty exercise. This article by Fr Steven Ritter addresses this state of mind, offering fresh, thought-p...

A Reference to Alyosha Karamazov
45069 hours ago

"Ayosha, the "angelic brother" of Dostoevsky’s novel. Aloysha the monastic novice. Alyosha the compassionate. Alyosha, who has chosen to live only for God. Yes. But Alyosha the depraved? Alyosha the corrupt. . .Alyosha the insect? Christos Yannara...

Is That All There Is? Mystery In The World
45475 hours ago

The insights of Dan Buxhoeveden (J.D from Loyola University, PhD from the University of Chicago) into the relation between natural sciences and the mystery of nature are no mere armchair speculation. He is an Orthodox Christian who teaches at the ...

Book Review: The Ethics of Beauty
46215 hours ago

In this short review, Dr. David Ford writes that The Ethics of Beauty by Dr. Timothy Patitsas "...has already brought for many people life-changing healing and personal reconciliation with God and with others." Patitsis covers a wide range of topi...