Rating: 7,5|Votes: 2
The latest incident occurred on Friday when the Ukraine State Service for Emergency Situations received a message about 35 pounds of TNT being placed at the Lavra, which forced rescuers, police and the Ukrainian Security Service to check the territory of the monastery.
Rating: 10|Votes: 21
The abbess of Kosovo’s Gračanica Monastery, one of the holiest and most renowned monasteries of the Serbian Orthodox Church, Mother Euphrosyne reposed in the Lord yesterday. She was 90 years old.
Rating: 10|Votes: 15
The captain of the Russian hockey team Pavel Datsyuk recently visited the Convent of the Icon of the Mother of God “She Who Ripens the Grain” in Sredneuralsk, outside of Ekaterinburg to thank God for the team’s recent victory in the Pyeongchang Olympic games.
Rating: 9,8|Votes: 6
A petition in support of the Tithes Monastery in Kiev, which has been under constant attack and threat lately, entitled “On Ensuring the Right to Freedom of Religion for the Faithful of the UOC [Ukrainian Orthodox Church—O.C.] and Public Order Around the Tithes Church (Chapel)” has gathered more than 20,000 signatures.
Rating: 9,8|Votes: 22
In his sermon for the second Sunday of Great Lent, His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry of Kiev and All Ukraine told the story of a rich man who was brought back from the brink of despair by one merciful act, thereby explaining why a life lived for the sake of personal pleasure destroys the soul, while mercy softens and sanctifies it.