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Serbian president awards Moscow’s Sretensky Monastery
6 hours ago
One of Serbia’s most prestigious awards, the Sretenje Order III Class, was presented for the monastery’s “exceptional and active contribution to strengthening spiritual and friendly relations between the Serbian Orthodox Church and the Russian Ort...

Documentary on persecution of Ukrainian Church screened in Washington, D.C.
7 hours ago
The film describes the persecution of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church under His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry of Kiev and All Ukraine, as well as the oppression of the rights of Christians around the world.

Madrid: Frescoes consecrated in Russian Orthodox cathedral
7 hours ago
The beautiful frescoes of the Russian Orthodox cathedral in Madrid were festively consecrated on Saturday, February 15.

We must defeat the thoughts with prayer—abbot of Romanian Putna Monastery on ...
8 hours ago
The abbot explained that a Christian’s journey is like living in a paradisiacal garden—those who choose to remain there develop, through virtuous living, an expansive heart that becomes a wellspring of love and goodness.

World Day of Orthodox Youth held in Warsaw
9 hours ago
The event, which drew young Orthodox faithful from throughout the world, was held February 14–16.

Field Mission to the Wild Siberian Dauria Country
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Part 2. Priest Dorimedont Protopopov, Fr. Kirill Sukhanov, Fr. Grigory Prelovsky, Hieromonk Benedict
Elena Dragunova
Back at the turn of the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries, the mission of the travelling clergy suffered serious losses and sor...
17 Oct 2024 at 3:00pm

This video features a discussion I had with Dr. Timothy Patitsas. We discuss liturgical arts, patronage, culture, and the experience of the artist. We delve deep into the practical difficulties of realizing good art in the modern age.
If you en...
4 Sep 2024 at 8:49am


Svaneti church key keeper Rezo with a tenth-century icon
This text is not just an article – it’s also a call for a combined effort. We invite you to support our documentary film the on Svaneti frescoes and the dedicated people who maintain them....
7 Jul 2024 at 1:06pm

Continuing my photojournalism series highlighting Balkan churches, this post features an especially beloved monastery in North Macedonia – The Monastery of Saint Naum.
Saint Naum was a disciple of Saints Cyril and Methodius, and participated ...
1 May 2024 at 6:10pm

Sharing our teaching method, I invite fellow iconographers to share their views on teaching, as only by approaching this subject from several sides can we foster a new generation of iconographers who will be better than us.

Iconography course...
19 Mar 2024 at 9:44am


Vladimir Grygorenko painting at St. Gregory Palamas Monastery, Perrysville, Ohio.
Editor’s Note: This open letter was written in response to Philip Davydov’s call for master iconographers to address some fundamental questions about their art and...
13 Mar 2024 at 1:11pm


Archdeacon Alexei Trunin and Philip Davydov. Photo by Ilia Khodyrev
Writing this text, I can’t help but feel that it opens up (or continues) a very extensive subject, which will require a lot of effort just to be introduced, and even more effort...
22 Jan 2025 at 4:06pm
Four people were baptized in the waters of the Pacific Ocean in the Philippines. Photo: Orthodox churches across the world welcomed new members this past weekend as mass Baptisms were held, timed to the feast of Theophany, commemorating Christ’s...
15 Oct 2024 at 9:16am
The Orthodox Church of St. John of Shanghai in Belfast (Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia) festively celebrated its patronal feast of the Uncovering of St. John’s Relics over the weekend. And this year, the joy of the feast was augment...
11 Sep 2024 at 4:46pm
Gwytherin, Conwy County Borough, Wales, September 10, 2024 Ajoyous event for Orthodox Christians living in the West occurred on Saturday, September 7, 2024, as the Orthodox Divine Liturgy was celebrated in the ancient Church of St. Winifred of ...
18 Jun 2024 at 10:18am
The Orthodox Church in North America is in the middle of a worsening clergy crisis. Statistically enduring a deficit of over 100 priests per year, it is time to ask the Holy Spirit to actively recruit men who are willing to serve, suffer, and die ...
25 Jan 2024 at 3:05pm
from New Martyr Press Today, we’re going to be speaking to Justine Alter, the author of Outside of the World. Justine is an ex professional psychic, ceremonial magician, lecturer, occulture political cartoonist, and used to be a director of a nonp...
24 Oct 2023 at 2:53pm
Another amazing account of the journey to Orthodoxy. ?
23 Oct 2023 at 2:47pm
Enjoy this beautiful account of one woman’s spiritual journey. You won’t regret it.
14 Jul 2023 at 3:22pm
GreatMartyr Euphemia Orthodox Theological Academy Greetings friends! This fall will mark our 5th year of educating and helping train others, like you, in the Orthodox theological Tradition. It’s hard to believe that 5 years have already gone by, b...
10 Jun 2021 at 10:23pm

“Not as the world gives, do I give unto you” (John 14:27). But does this promise of our Lord apply not only to His peace, but to other blessings as well. Could it be, for example, that the self-confidence of a Christian needs to be very different ...
1 May 2021 at 4:58pm

Many readers will recognize Metropolitan Tikhon (Shevkunov) as the author of the buoyant, inspiring, and irresistible book “Everyday Saints and Other Stories,” which sold record numbers of copies in Russia and has been translated into 17 languages...
5 Apr 2021 at 8:27am

We are now well into the Holy and Great Fast of Lent, but for many of us it may have already begun to seem tedious: a routine and perhaps even empty exercise. This article by Fr Steven Ritter addresses this state of mind, offering fresh, thought-p...
19 Mar 2021 at 5:41am

"Ayosha, the "angelic brother" of Dostoevsky’s novel. Aloysha the monastic novice. Alyosha the compassionate. Alyosha, who has chosen to live only for God. Yes. But Alyosha the depraved? Alyosha the corrupt. . .Alyosha the insect? Christos Yannara...
2 Mar 2021 at 6:25am

The insights of Dan Buxhoeveden (J.D from Loyola University, PhD from the University of Chicago) into the relation between natural sciences and the mystery of nature are no mere armchair speculation. He is an Orthodox Christian who teaches at the ...
30 Jan 2021 at 10:04am

In this short review, Dr. David Ford writes that The Ethics of Beauty by Dr. Timothy Patitsas "...has already brought for many people life-changing healing and personal reconciliation with God and with others." Patitsis covers a wide range of topi...