Home

Top Stories in Orthodox News

  • Live coverage of DC March for Life

    Monday, January 23, 2012 - Orthodox Church in America - Orthodox Church in America
    WASHINGTON, DC [OCA] The Eternal Word Television Network [EWTN] is providing live coverage of today’s March for Life in the US Capital, according to Archpriest John Kowalczyk, a pro-life activist and co-founder of the Orthodox Presence at the annual gathering. Live and complete coverage begins today — Monday, January 23 — at 10:00 a.m. ET, with a rebroadcast tonight at 11:00 p.m. ET.  A rebroadcast will also be aired on Saturday, January 28, at 2:00 p.m. ET. …More

  • Holy Synod of Bishops issues statement regarding Archbishop Seraphim

    Saturday, January 21, 2012 - Orthodox Church in America - Orthodox Church in America
    SYOSSET, NY [OCA] On Saturday, January 21, 2012, the Holy Synod of Bishops of the Orthodox Church in America released the following statement concerning His Eminence, Archbishop Seraphim [Storheim]. …More

  • Metropolitan Jonah, Bishop Michael speak at OCF conferences; audios now available from OCF

    Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - Orthodox Church in America - Orthodox Church in America
    SYOSSET, NY [OCA] His Beatitude, Metropolitan Jonah, and His Grace, Bishop Michael of New York and New Jersey, addressed students at two separate conferences sponsored by the Orthodox Christian Fellowship [OCF] during the last week of December 2011. …More

  • Court Rules Against St. Basil Academy in Tuition Dispute

    Friday, January 13, 2012 - Theodore Kalmoukos - The National Herald
    ALBANY, NY – The New York State Court of Appeals on January 5 ruled against St. Basil Academy on its long standing dispute with the Garrison school district regarding tuition fees for those of St. Basil children that are not Garrison residents. …More

  • Ecumenical Patriarch Wrangles with Russian Church Over Ephraim Jailing

    Wednesday, January 11, 2012 - ANA - MPA - The National Herald
    ISTANBUL (AMNA) - The Ecumenical Patriarchate criticized the "intervention" by the Patriarch of Moscow in its affairs through statements and demarches made in favor of Vatopedi Monastery abbot Ephraim, reiterating that Mt. Athos belongs under the Church of Constantinople's jurisdiction. An announcement issued at the Phanar after Tuesday's meeting of the Synod stresses that Mount Athos is "normal territory" of the Ecumenical Patriarchate. …More

  • The Diocese of Mexico: Forty Years of Ministry and Mission

    Tuesday, January 10, 2012 - Orthodox Church in America - Orthodox Church in America
    MEXICO CITY, MEXICO [OCA] Faithful arrived early at the Cathedral of the Ascension here on Sunday, January 8, 2012, as His Beatitude, Metropolitan Jonah presided at the Divine Liturgy and celebrated the Great Blessing of Water marking the diocese’s 40th anniversary. …More

  • Construction of Orthodox center in Paris to begin in 2012

    Thursday, January 5, 2012 - Interfax - Interfax
    MOSCOW. Jan 3 (Interfax) - The construction of a Russian Orthodox culture and religious center in Paris will soon be started, Russian presidential property manager Vladimir Kozhin said. "A contract has already been signed with the company Bouygues, which will build the center. The work with the drawings is under way now. The construction itself will begin after the New Year's," Kozhin said in an interview with Interfax. …More

  • Spiritual Security, the Russian Orthodox Church, & the Russian Foreign Ministry: Collaboration or Cooptation?

    Monday, January 2, 2012 - (Rev. Dr.) Daniel Payne - Journal of Church and State Advance Access
    Introduction …More

  • Searching for a narrative for Eastern Orthodox in America

    Sunday, January 1, 2012 - Daniel Silliman - Danielsilliman.blogspot.com
    Watch American Religious Studies and American Religious History for even a little while, and you'll see a developing, evolving way of talking about different groups. Go back -- not too far, even -- and one finds almost all the attention given to denominational organizations, and everything framed in terms of continuity or discontinuity with Boston Puritanism. It's not like that anymore. …More

  • Disputed Voting Turns Church, a Kremlin Ally, Into Its Critic

    Sunday, January 1, 2012 - SOPHIA KISHKOVSKY - The New York Times
    MOSCOW — Among the thousands of Russian voices raised against the Kremlin this month after parliamentary elections widely dismissed as fraudulent, perhaps the most surprising was that of Patriarch Kirill I, the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, who defended popular protests as a “lawful negative reaction” to corruption. …More
© Orthodox Christian Laity
RSS Feed Share on Facebook Tweet This