• Articles,  Home/News,  Other Articles

    Sermon on the Triumph of Orthodoxy

    by Archbishop Averky (Taushev) “This is the Apostolic faith, this is the faith of the Fathers, this is the Orthodox faith – confirm this universal faith.” Beloved brothers and sisters in the Lord, you will hear these solemn and significant words in the Rite of Orthodoxy which the Holy Church has established to be served on this day. The first week of Holy and Great Lent has ended a week of intensified prayer and ascetical repentance. Now the Holy Church, desiring to encourage and console us, has established for us in this first week of Great Lent, on its first Sunday, a spiritual celebration,one most dear and close to our…

  • Home/News

    IOCC Responds as Serbia and Bosnia Brace for More Flooding

    Baltimore, MD (IOCC) — On the heels of epic floods that left at least 37 dead and thousands homeless in Serbia and Bosnia, a second surge of floodwaters continues to fill an already swollen Sava River and threatens thousands of lives as well as Serbia’s biggest power plant. The Nikola Tesla power plant, which provides roughly half of the country’s electricity, is in the deadly path of a flood wave created by the heaviest rains to hit the region in 120 years. In Bosnia, evacuees are being placed in temporarily shelters like military barracks, but many more await help in areas that are not accessible yet. From its offices in Bosnia…

  • Home/News

    Support for Abducted Hierarchs!

    Message from Archbishop Joseph of the Antiochian Archdiocese of Los Angeles and the West. Beloved in Christ: Greetings and blessings in the Name of our Lord. As we gather together with our parish communities this week to celebrate the beautiful services of Great and Holy Week, we continue to be grieved by the abduction of two Orthodox Hierarchs in Syria last week. Below is the link to an appeal to President Obama and his government for the release of two Orthodox Christian Metropolitans, namely Metropolitan Paul Yazigi (the brother of His Beatitude, Patriarch JOHN X) and Metropolitan Youhanna Ibrahim who were abducted by armed rebels on April 23, 2013 in…

  • Home/News

    Submit Your Photos!

    We are posting pictures that have been submitted to us by various pilgrims about different monasteries, churches, and Orthodox life in other countries. If you have photos that you would like to share with the world, please contact us! Keep a look out for upcoming images!

  • Home/News

    Issue 25, On the Horizon!!

    Readers and Subscribers, After a long wait, Issue 25 is scheduled to be printed in the month of February. The ‘zine will take on a new appearance, have enhanced quality, and many other surprises that await our subscribers. Please be on the look out for sneak peeks, article previews, and other things that will be added as the time draws near. Thank you for all your support and prayers!