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 Trefinon in the Welsh village of Gwytherin for the first time since the Great Schism of 1054. His ..read more

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 for Christ to Holy Orders. Candidates have a lot of questions ..read more

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Enjoy this beautiful account of one woman’s spiritual journey. You won’t regret it ..read more

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, but so much has happened in all that time. For those of you who have supported our ..read more

An Orthodox prayer book was recently published in Malagasy, the national language of Madagascar, reports the Russian Orthodox Church’s African Exarchate. The text was translated by Fr. Makary Ratudzunantenaina, a cleric of the Exarchate. Prayer books were previously published in Tiv (Nigeria), Kirundi (Burundi) and Swahili. Malagasy is the westernmost Malayo-Polynesian language, spoke by about ..read more

It has begun! (with apologies to Cary Hiroyuki Tagawa) Enrollment at GM Euphemia Orthodox Academy for Summer Semester 2023 is open and going on right now. The semester begins on Monday, May 29! YOU are the New Crew of the Church, so let’s get prepared for it. Our students are serving as deacons and priests ..read more

  Another mass Baptism was celebrated in Africa over the weekend, this time in the Nile River near the town of Chemelil, Kenya. 78 people were baptized altogether on Thomas Sunday. Photo: Facebook     Bishop Neofitos of Eldoret and Northern Kenya of the Patriarchate of Alexandria writes: CHRIST IS RISEN! KRISTO AMEFUFUKA! There is no Messenger Without ..read more

       The tradition of mass Baptisms continue throughout Africa. In the continuing joy of the Bright Resurrection of Christ, more than a dozen children were baptized over the weekend in Nigeria. In particular, 15 children and one adult were baptized by Fr. Cornelius Osuji at the Church of the Archangel Michael of the ..read more

    More than 30 people received the washing of regeneration in two separate mass Baptisms at Lake Victoria, which extends through Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania, on the feast of the Theophany, January 19.      19 were baptized by the hands of Fr. Otara Johnson Hezekiah, the founder of the St. Peter Rigena Oprhanage ..read more