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June 9, 2026
Welcome to the Orthodox World Feed
The members’ news feed is live: curated coverage of the Orthodox world — Church news, statements from the hierarchs, the feasts, and the suffering Church — every item sourced and dated.
Church NewsSource: The Ancient Faith — Editorial
June 8, 2026
The Apostles’ Fast Begins
On the Monday after All Saints — June 8 this year — the Church enters the Apostles’ Fast, the variable-length summer fast that ends with the feast of Saints Peter and Paul on June 29.
Feasts & SeasonsSource: Greek Orthodox Metropolis of San Francisco
May 20, 2026
For the Life of the World: the Church’s Social Vision
Commissioned by the Ecumenical Patriarchate and released in 2020, “For the Life of the World” sets out a social ethos for the Orthodox Church — on poverty, war, human rights, technology, the family, and the care of creation.
StatementsMembersSource: Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America
April 23, 2026
Thirteen Years Without the Bishops of Aleppo
Metropolitan Paul (Yazigi) and Archbishop Mar Gregorios Yohanna Ibrahim were abducted near Aleppo on April 22, 2013. Thirteen years later, the Churches of Antioch still wait for word.
The Suffering ChurchGraveSyriaMembersSource: OrthoChristian
February 8, 2026
Butovo: The Russian Golgotha and the New Martyrs
At a firing range south of Moscow, 20,761 people were shot in fifteen months of the Great Terror — around a thousand of them for the faith. Butovo is why the Church keeps the feast of the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia.
AnalysisRussiaMembersSource: Orthodox Church in America