Tajumulco, Guatemala, July 6, 2018 Photo: facebook.com Hundreds of thousands of Guatemalans have been embracing the Orthodox faith over the past decade. 500,000 were received into the Ecumenical Patriarchate in January 2010, and more individuals and entire communities have been entering the holy Orthodox Church since then. Most recently, as Jesse Brandow, a missionary to Guatemala […]

Plans are underway to build a new Orthodox church in Grozny, the capital city of the Chechen Republic, republic head Ramzan Kadyrov said in a recent interview with Izvestia. Upon completion, there will be just four Orthodox parishes in the entire republic, and two active parishes in Grozny. “There is now a proposal to build a […]

Bugulma, Republic of Tatarstan, Russia, July 2, 2018 Photo: tatmitropolia.ru A new project addressing the needs of the poor and homeless in the territory of the Almetyevsk Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church was launched recently in the town of Bugulma in the Russian Tatarstan Republic.    On June 14, the head of the diocese’s Social […]