https://orthodoxy.church/news A curated, editorial feed from the Orthodox Christian world — Church news, statements from the hierarchs, the feasts, and the suffering Church. Headlines are public; full articles are for members. en-us Tue, 09 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://orthodoxy.church/news/welcome-to-the-orthodox-world-feed https://orthodoxy.church/news/welcome-to-the-orthodox-world-feed Tue, 09 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Church News 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. https://orthodoxy.church/news/apostles-fast-2026 https://orthodoxy.church/news/apostles-fast-2026 Mon, 08 Jun 2026 08:00:00 GMT Feasts & Seasons 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. https://orthodoxy.church/news/for-the-life-of-the-world-social-ethos https://orthodoxy.church/news/for-the-life-of-the-world-social-ethos Wed, 20 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT Statements 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. https://orthodoxy.church/news/thirteen-years-without-the-bishops-of-aleppo https://orthodoxy.church/news/thirteen-years-without-the-bishops-of-aleppo Thu, 23 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT The Suffering Church 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. https://orthodoxy.church/news/butovo-and-the-new-martyrs https://orthodoxy.church/news/butovo-and-the-new-martyrs Sun, 08 Feb 2026 12:00:00 GMT Analysis 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.