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 […]

On the weekend of June11-13, the 3rd Annual Arizona Missions Development Conference took place. Calling together clergy and laity from multiple states, multiple parish, and multiple jurisdictions, the Conference is put on to strengthen and confirm those in existing satellite missions, and to inspire those preparing to plant and establish new satellite missions. Fr. John […]

A great event in the life of St. Vladimir Church in Halifax, Nova Scotia (Orthodox Church in America), was celebrated this weekend, as the large Jefferson family was united to Christ in the Sacrament of Baptism. Photo: archdiocese.caThe 11 members of the family were baptized by Fr. David Edwards and Fr. Alexander Treiger in the […]