A guard at a church in Kenya was seriously wounded in an attack earlier this week. His condition remains critical.
The image, which is among the sacred treasures of the Holy Monastery of Mega Spileo in Kalavryta, is one of the surviving icons made by the hand of St. Luke the Evangelist.
Maria Vasic
Recently, Kosovo Serbs were stunned—this time from joy. The tiny town of Orahovac in southern Kosovo and Metohija was inundated with hundreds of pilgrims who arrived there in a single day.
The rite was led by His Grace Bishop Nichifor of Botoșani and His Grace Bishop Veniamin of Southern Bessarabia, with a host of clerics. The relics of the great saints were carefully removed from their resting place, cleaned of soil, and reverently placed in new wooden coffins.
A new Serbian Orthodox church in Germany was consecrated on Thomas Sunday, April 27.