Today, June 19, 2025, we reshare this April 9, 2025 interview in recognition of Juneteenth, a federal holiday commemorating the ending of slavery in the United States. Here, the Orthodox Observer’s Dr. Claire Koen spoke with the Rev. Fr. Samuel Davis to discuss his work as director the Apostolic Mission to the African Diaspora. Currently […]
Today, June 19, 2025, we reshare this January 20, 2025 interview in recognition of Juneteenth, a federal holiday commemorating the ending of slavery in the United States. Here, the Orthodox Observer’s Dr. Claire Koen spoke with the V. Rev. Archimandrite Chrysostom Onyekakeyah, Project Coordinator for Mission and Outreach Development, Inter-Orthodox Ecumenical and Interfaith Relations about his work […]
Madeline Cano served as Orthodox Christian Prison Ministry’s first Social Media Intern from 2024-2025. When she was asked to write a culminating essay on her experience, OCPM was so moved by her reflections on the heart of prison ministry that they asked to share her thoughts with the greater community.
Hellenic College announces the launch of its fully online Nonprofit Leadership & Management (NPLM) Certificate, now available for enrollment. This marks Hellenic College’s inaugural venture into fully online undergraduate programming, reflecting a strategic and mission-driven expansion into distance education.
With the blessing of His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America, the Archdiocesan District Clergy Syndesmos was held on Tuesday, June 17, at St. Paraskevi Greek Orthodox Church in Greenlawn, NY.
This Saint, great and renowned among the ascetics of Egypt, lived in the fourth century in Scete of Nitria. After the death of Saint Anthony the Great, he left Scete to live in Saint Anthony's cave; he said of this, "Thus in the cave of a lion, a fox makes his dwelling." When Sisoes was […]
Saint Athanasios had Trebizond for his homeland. He first entered the monastic life on the mountain called Kymaeos or Kyminas, which is in Mysia of Bithynia, then he went to Mount Athos and founded a large monastery, which is known as the Great Lavra. He became so renowned for his virtue that from Rome, Calabria, […]
Tsar Nicholas II was the son of Alexander III, who had reposed in the arms of Saint John of Kronstadt. Having been raised in piety, Tsar Nicholas ever sought to rule in a spirit consonant with the precepts of Orthodoxy and the best traditions of his nation. Tsaritsa Alexandra, a grand-daughter of Queen Victoria of […]
The Holy Hierarch John Maximovitch was born in the Kharkov region in 1896, and reposed in San Francisco in 1966. In 1921, during the Russian Civil War, his family fled to Belgrade, joining the ranks of Russian exiles in Serbia, where he later became a monk and was ordained priest. In 1934 he was made […]
These Saints, who are different from those that are celebrated on the 1st of November, were from Rome. They were physicians, freely bestowing healing upon beasts and men, asking nothing from the healed other than that they confess and believe in Christ. They ended their life in martyrdom in the year 284, under the Emperors […]
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