The agreement was signed by Abbess Maria of the St. Petka Monastery, where the home has operated since the 1940s, and the Ministry of Labor, Employment, and Veterans’ and Social Affairs.
The visit was part of the Mission of St. John of Wallachia’s ongoing effort “to spread the light of the Orthodox faith throughout Colombia, and the missionary activities in Bucaramanga are just beginning.”
Svyatoslav Mozhey
My ten-year-old daughter’s friends came to our place and played in the room where Fr. Gabriel’s icon stood. Suddenly they ran out frightened: “Look, an icon is winking at us!”
His Holiness Patriarch Daniil of Bulgaria visited England over the weekend to consecrate the UK’s first Bulgarian Orthodox church—the dream of several generations of Bulgarians living there.
After a few years of discussions, a large portion of a diocese of one of the Old Calendarist churches has been received into the Antiochian Orthodox Church in its Archdiocese of the British Isles and Ireland.