The beautiful frescoes of the Russian Orthodox cathedral in Madrid were festively consecrated on Saturday, February 15.
The abbot explained that a Christian’s journey is like living in a paradisiacal garden—those who choose to remain there develop, through virtuous living, an expansive heart that becomes a wellspring of love and goodness.
In the face of threats by the schismatic “Orthodox Church of Ukraine,” hundreds of Orthodox parishioners of the Holy Spirit Cathedral in the city of Chernivtsi voted to remain in the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church under the headship of His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry of Kiev and All Ukraine.
A recent archaeological discovery near Jerusalem has challenged the established scholarly understanding of ascetic practices in the Byzantine era.
An evangelical congregation in Halifax, West Yorkshire, England, is in the process of converting to Orthodox Christianity via the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of the British Isles and Ireland.