Tag: Orthodox
Ukraine wants to dislodge Orthodox clerics, deemed close to Moscow
The monks occupying the Lavra of the Caves of kyiv, a famous monastery classified as a heritage of humanity, had until Wednesday March 29 to leave the premises. The Ukrainian…
an agreement reached after days of crisis within the Orthodox Church
Orthodox leaders say the crisis is over. The Church, one of the oldest in the world and which represents 40% of the 115 million Ethiopians, was in the midst of…
the current split within the Orthodox Church is confirmed
Orthodox Christians make up 40% of Ethiopia’s 115 million people. However, at the end of January, dissident archbishops and bishops decided to create their own branch of the Church in…
sharp tensions within the Orthodox Church
In Ethiopia, a group of three archbishops and 25 bishops were excommunicated by the synod, the central religious authority. They had tried to install priests in the Oromo language without…
War in Ukraine: “The Russian Orthodox Church behaves as a propagandist of the Kremlin”
Since the start of the Russian invasion on February 24, 2022, the Russian Orthodox Church embodied by its leader, Patriarch Kirill, has openly supported Vladimir Putin’s war in the name…
War in Ukraine: the Russian Orthodox Church at the service of the Kremlin
In the photographs that he publishes on his Telegram channel “A priest in Donetsk”, Father Roman wears a camouflage jacket over his cassock. He poses alongside pro-Russian soldiers, the wounded…
Ukrainian church congregation celebrates Orthodox Christmas
News Local News Rev. Lyubomyr Levytskyy conducts mass at Sacred Heart Ukrainian Catholic Church in Waterford on Saturday (Jan. 7 on the Julian calendar). Photo by CHRIS ABBOTT /Norfolk &…
Ukrainian church congregation celebrates Orthodox Christmas
News Local News Rev. Lyubomyr Levytskyy conducts mass at Sacred Heart Ukrainian Catholic Church in Waterford on Saturday (Jan. 7 on the Julian calendar). Photo by CHRIS ABBOTT /Norfolk &…
Vladimir Putin attends an Orthodox Christmas service alone in a Kremlin church
Vladimir Putin celebrated Christmas in the Kremlin. The Russian president put himself on the stage, attending a religious service during the night of Friday January 6 to Saturday January 7.…
In Ukraine, an Orthodox Christmas breaking with the Russian Church
For the first time in its history, the young Independent Church of Ukraine celebrated Orthodox Christmas on Saturday January 7 in the Cathedral of the Lavra of the Caves in…