Abdurrahman Kurdo, a business student and the manager of a hotel near the destroyed Antioch Greek Orthodox Church, was sifting through the rubble to salvage what he could of Antakya's culture.

Source: https://gazette.com/news/us-world/turks-look-to-history-and-foresee-rebirth-of-ancient-antakya-from-earthquake-ruins/article_acca372d-d45b-5560-b79f-78f478651831.html

A Caritas Jerusalem worker named Viola, 26, pictured in an undated photo, was killed alongside her husband and their infant daughter in an airstrike on the St. Porphyrios Orthodox Church in Gaza, said an Oct. 20, 2023, statement from Caritas Jerusalem.

Source: https://therecordnewspaper.org/gaza-catholic-parish-mourns-fellow-christians-killed-in-blast-at-greek-orthodox-complex/

Anargyroi Greek Orthodox Church in Marlborough 1974 until 1982 and St. Nicholas and in Enfield, Connecticut from where he retired.

Source: https://www.communityadvocate.com/2023/02/06/rev-fr-peter-c-chrisafideis-91-of-marlborough/

Captured by Moscow during its ongoing invasion of Ukraine, the POWs were transferred to Hungary earlier this month, with the help of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Source: https://www.euronews.com/2023/06/23/hungarys-relationship-with-ukraine-strained-by-prisoner-exchange-with-russia

Even volunteers are ready to loosen up after all the pandemic adjustments the past few years, event co-chairman Andy Gavrilos said about the annual celebration at Dormition of the Theotokos Greek Orthodox Church on Washington Avenue.

Source: https://triblive.com/local/valley-news-dispatch/greek-food-fest-returns-to-oakmont-june-23-25/

Father Mattheos Siopis from the Greek Orthodox Church said the police were "enforcing unreasonable restrictions".

Source: https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2023/04/thousands-attend-jerusalem-holy-fire-rite-orthodox-easter

Finally in 2018 Bartholomew gave the Orthodox Church of Ukraine the ecclesiastical autonomy it wanted, which led to a break with Moscow.

Source: https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/politics/why-russia-sees-satanic-powers-at-work-in-ukraine/48252960?utm_campaign=swi-rss&utm_source=multiple&utm_medium=rss&utm_content=o

In his address at the annual Al-Quds Tribune event on the occasion of International Al-Quds Day, Archbishop Atallah Hanna of the Greek Orthodox Church emphasized that Al-Quds is a trust in the necks of all people.

Source: https://english.almanar.com.lb/1817565

In the Orthodox Church, this Sunday is known as ‘Forgiveness Sunday’ as Christians ask God for forgiveness from their sins so that they may begin Lent with a good heart.

Source: https://www.cravenherald.co.uk/news/23325953.craven-village-news-correspondents/?ref=rss

Ironically in light of later, tragic events in their homeland, they moved next door to St. Stephen’s Serbian Orthodox Church (I’ve been assured there is no animosity whatsoever between the congregations).

Source: https://www.buffalorising.com/2023/02/buffalo-mass-mob-heads-south-of-the-border/

Kyiv on Friday ordered the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) to leave a monastery complex where it is based, the latest move against a denomination the government says is pro-Russian and collaborating with Moscow.

Source: https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20230311-%F0%9F%94%B4-live-russian-shelling-kills-at-least-three-people-in-kherson-ukraine-says

March 12 (UPI) -- Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, has blasted Ukrainian officials for ordering a Russian-aligned church to leave a Kyiv monastery.

Source: https://www.upi.com/Top_News/2023/03/12/On-This-Day-Kidnapped-teen-Elizabeth-Smart-found-alive-in-Utah/1161678551488/

Others only thinly veil their extremism in traditional Orthodox Russian imperialism, exemplified by the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) leadership and former paramilitary commander Igor Strelkov aka Girkin.

Source: https://www.euronews.com/2023/04/13/when-russia-calls-others-nazis-it-should-be-taking-a-hard-look-at-itself

Reading it made me wonder whether American religious groups and individuals may one day have to “go underground” like the Russian Orthodox Church did between 1917 and 1990.

Source: https://americanfreepress.net/christians-are-in-the-crosshairs/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=christians-are-in-the-crosshairs

Regarding the use of statues and sculptures in churches, the reverse is generally true, with the Catholic Church having a greater preference for this type of artistic expression than the Orthodox Church.

Source: https://greekreporter.com/2023/04/01/catholic-orthodox-christianity-differences/

Russian President Vladimiron Thursday ordered a 36-hour cease fire in Ukraine over Orthodox Christmas after an appeal from the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, a step Ukraine had earlier dismissed as a cynical trap.

Source: https://www.algemeiner.com/2023/01/05/putin-orders-cease-fire-in-ukraine-over-orthodox-christmas-kremlin/

So it takes a unified Russia under Putin and the Orthodox Church to fight something so “existentially serious”.

Source: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2023/12/no_author/moscow-on-the-rocks/

The church was originally of Church of England denomination but later became known as St George’s Ukrainian Orthodox Church.

Source: https://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/news/derby-news/new-plan-resurrect-st-georges-8698936

The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester will meet young volunteers from the Coptic Orthodox Church at a coronation party at St Mark’s Coptic Orthodox Church in Kensington.

Source: https://jerseyeveningpost.com/morenews/uknews/2023/05/02/royals-to-attend-big-lunch-and-big-help-out-events-to-celebrate-coronation/

The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester will meet young volunteers from the Coptic Orthodox Church at a coronation party at St Mark’s Coptic Orthodox Church in Kensington.

Source: https://jerseyeveningpost.com/morenews/uknews/2023/05/02/royals-to-attend-big-lunch-and-big-help-out-events-to-celebrate-coronation/