Dmitry Kiryukhin
After several decades of atheist propaganda in the Soviet Union, new life came to the Orthodox parish in the village of Barkhatovo.
The primates of the Serbian Orthodox Church and the Macedonian Orthodox Church-Ohrid Archbishopric came together yesterday to concelebrate the feast of the Protection of the Most Holy Theotokos in a Serbian village monastery.
The feast of St. Parascheva, October 14, is traditionally one of the largest religious events in Romania, drawing pilgrims from throughout Romania and beyond over the days leading up to her feast.
The spiritual and cultural value of the returned paintings is very high.
Jacob Adams
For eighteen years I lived only thirty-five minutes from it, occasionally taking the road past its striking golden and brown domes that rose anachronistically from the dairy land of northeast Pennsylvania.