Metropolitan Tikhon (OCA) to concelebrate with Metropolitan Onuphry in western Ukraine
https://orthochristian.com/160480.html

The Holy Synod of the Orthodox Church in America formally rejects communion with the schismatics of the “Orthodox Church in America,” recognizing only the canonical UOC under Met. Onuphry.

A Christian Surrounded by Non-Believers
https://orthochristian.com/160481.html

Priest Nikolai Konyukhov

When a person comes to the faith, he must ask himself the simple question: “What does my family gain from me being a Christian?”

1,500-mile procession for 300th anniversary of transfer of relics of St. Alexander Nevsky begins
https://orthochristian.com/160479.html

The procession will pass through the historical sites that his relics passed through in 1724. It lasts until June 20.

Finnish Church comments on laws concerning female genital mutilation and infanticide
https://orthochristian.com/160474.html

The Finnish Orthodox Church states that the right of a newborn child to life is equivalent to that of individuals of other ages, and the seriousness of intentional murder does not depend on the age of the victim.

Fire breaks out at Cleveland’s historic St. Theodosius Cathedral (+VIDEO)
https://orthochristian.com/160466.html

St. Theodosius Cathedral (OCA Diocese of the Midwest), built in 1911–1912, is formally recognized as a Cleveland landmark and was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

Patriarch of Antioch consecrates church rebuilt after 2023’s devastating earthquakes (+VIDEO)
https://orthochristian.com/160465.html

The Cathedral of St. George in Latakia, Syria, was festively consecrated and inaugurated on Sunday, May 26.

Bulgarian hierarchs call for special prayer rule in lead-up to politicized Patriarchal election
https://orthochristian.com/160464.html

His Holiness Patriarch Neofit, who presided over the Bulgarian Church for 11 years, reposed in the Lord in March. His successor will be chosen on June 30.

“Let them sue St. Luke himself”—UOC hierarch being prosecuted for quoting St. Luke of Simferopol
https://orthochristian.com/160450.html

His Eminence Metropolitan Theodosy of Cherkasky of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church is currently facing a third round of charges for “inciting religious enmity.”

Russian Synod forbids concelebration with Bulgarian hierarchs who concelebrated with schismatics
https://orthochristian.com/160507.html

The schismatic concelebration also caused some degree of outrage amongst the clergy and faithful of the Bulgarian Church, many of whom sent letters of protest to the Holy Synod.

Uncovering of relics of St. John (Maximovitch) added to Russian Church calendar
https://orthochristian.com/160505.html

The feast of the Uncovering of the Relics of St. John (Maximovitch) of Shanghai and San Francisco (September 29/October 12) has been added to the liturgical calendar of the Moscow Patriarchate.

Update on Fr. Ambrose (Alexey) Young.

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We Gave Up Everything to Find Salvation
https://orthochristian.com/160502.html

Elder Dionisie the Athonite, Part 1
Radu Hagiu

Fr. Dionisie was an “old-fashioned” monk who tried all his life to adhere to the traditions he received from the elders and to pass them on to his disciples and spiritual children, for all seventy-seven years of his monastic labor.

History Timeline, Reconstruction of Lost Towns and Art Treasures
https://orthochristian.com/160501.html

Teaching Church history at a Sunday school
Maria Minaeva

Young schoolchildren cannot be given lectures—it would kill their interest and motivation. They need something that appeals to their experience, and at the same time, prompts their active participation during the lesson. That’s how the idea of creating a history timeline was born.

100th anniversary of St. Jonah of Odessa celebrated by canonical Ukrainian Church (+VIDEO)
https://orthochristian.com/160509.html

“There has probably never been a more famous parish priest in the history of Odessa,” reads a message from the Holy Dormition Cathedral in Odessa, where the great saint’s relics lie in repose.

Proposed for canonization: Gerondissa Makaria, who uncovered the relics of St. Ephraim of Nea Makri
https://orthochristian.com/160510.html

Gerondissa Makaria (Desipri), former abbess of the Holy Annunciation Monastery in Nea Makri, who was vouchsafed to uncover the relics of St. Ephraim of Nea Makri in 1950, has been formally proposed for canonization.

Why do Orthodox Christians pray to the Saints?
https://orthochristian.com/160499.html

Elijah Rogers

The saints in heaven are not dead. That is a fundamental rejection of what Christ did during His decent into Hades.

Sunday Of the Samaritan Woman, Or What Kind of Water Revives Your Soul and Turns Your Heart into Light
https://orthochristian.com/160515.html

Archpriest Andrei Chizhenko

Today we too have a well, but not Jacob’s. We have a greater one! The Well of the Holy Trinity—the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. This is the Church.

“Rarely Have I Seen a Man So Noble as Fr. Dionisie”
https://orthochristian.com/160504.html

Elder Dionisie the Athonite, Part 2
Radu Hagiu

His entire being breathed humility: his bright face, his warm smile, his meek and edifying word, his modesty, kindness, and simplicity, the way he hid his monastic labor and his deeds—in a word, his spiritual nobility.