A three-barred Orthodox cross has been erected and blessed on Dominica, marking the future site of the Caribbean island nation’s first Orthodox church. The cross was blessed by Hieromonk Ambrose (Sitalo), who is based in Grenada but also serves throughout the Caribbean. Fr. George Maximov, a missionary priest based in Moscow, reports: An Orthodox cross was […]

Dipolog, Zamboanga del Norte, Philippines, September 8, 2021     A great spiritual event occurred in the Philippines this week, as a group of 12 men and women were baptized into Christ in His holy Orthodox Church in the waters of the West Philippine Sea.     The dozen newly-illumined are all former members of a […]

San Germán, Puerto Rico, August 16, 2021    A new church, dedicated to the Annunciation of the Most Holy Theotokos, is being built on the island of Puerto Rico. The cross on the site of the future church was blessed on Sunday, August 8, by His Grace Bishop Nicholas of Manhattan of the Russian Orthodox […]

Despite pressure and persecution from state, regional, and local officials and from the schismatic “Orthodox Church of Ukraine” (OCU), the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church under His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry of Kiev and All Ukraine remains the largest religious confession in Ukraine by far and continues to grow. Ukrainian media sources regularly feature stories of new […]

     Just days after the church at St. Joseph the Hesychast Monastery in Toliara, Madagascar was consecrated comes news that the monastic presence in the African country continues to grow, with a new convent being built there. “Another monastery is being built by the tireless efforts of His Eminence Metropolitan Ignatios of North Madagascar,” reports the Friends […]