Over the weekend, the myrrh-streaming and wonderworking Hawaiian Iveron Icon of the Mother of God was solemnly received at the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos Cathedral of the Diocese of America and Canada of the Macedonian Orthodox Church-Ohrid Archbishopric in the Sterling Heights suburb of Detroit.
According to the Metropolia’s report, the Romanian Orthodox Church recently became the only canonical Orthodox Church to enjoy legal recognition in Ecuador.
Another Russian Orthodox parish in France celebrated its 100th anniversary over the weekend.
A host of hierarchs of the Belarusian Orthodox Church celebrated the 555th anniversary of the miraculous finding of the Zhirovichi Icon of the Mother of God and the 500th anniversary of the foundation of the Zhirovichi Monastery this week.
The holy habitation, founded in the mid-17th century, was closed by the communist authorities in 1959. It was revived in 1990.