The Turov Diocese is among the oldest of the entire Russian Orthodox Church. The celebration coincided with the 895th anniversary of the birth of St. Cyril of Turov, who led the diocese in the 12th century.
Orthodox Christians living in the Donetsk People’s Republic were blessed with a visit from a hierarch of the Antiochian Patriarchate last week.
Dmitry Kiryukhin
The Church of Great Martyr George, created in honor of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War (World War II), is well known to any visitor to Moscow’s Victory Park on Worship Hill.
Another Orthodox church has been seized by godless schismatics with the help of the police and the local mayor in Cherkasy, where perhaps the most violent and bloody church takeover in all of Ukraine took place in October.
The feast of St. Sophia of Kleisoura, a great 20th-century Greek ascetic, was festively celebrated “with reverence, emotion, and the participation of numerous pilgrims” on May 5–6 at the Monastery of the Nativity of the Theotokos in Kleisoura, Kastoria, where she ascetically labored for 55 years.