One of the bishops of the Japanese Orthodox Church wrote to the Kirill: extent of damage is still uncertain, there has been no news of the parishes on the Pacific coast in Sendai. Moscow (AsiaNews) - ...

The Moscow Patriarchate is fundraising for needs of Orthodox believers who suffered from the earthquake in Japan, Interfax-Religion reports. "We start collecting aid in Sts. Martha and Mary Convent in ...

Hierodeacon Nikolai (Ono) comes from an old family of priests of the Japanese Orthodox Church. His great-great grandfather’s name—Priest John Ono—is often mentioned in the diaries of St 1. Nicholas of ...

For those Russians who were stuck in colonial Seoul, when Korea was under Japanese rule in 1910-45, the Russian Orthodox mission was their focal point. It was a social venue, a place where Russians ...

Two statements from Moscow last week revealed snags in the Kremlin’s efforts to use religion as a political opiate in other countries. After a 15-year struggle to dominate the Orthodox Church in the U ...

“In the whole history of the Orthodox Church in America, this has never been seen,” a priest said about the surge of young men drawn to the demanding practice of Christianity. “The Orthodox Church is ...

Essentially the Orthodox Church shares much with the other Christian Churches in the belief that God revealed himself in Jesus Christ, and a belief in the incarnation of Christ, his crucifixion and ...