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Christianity

Czech church offers training for lay administrators

More confident and competent administration of individual parishes will have a beneficial effect on the wider church, which currently numbers around 55,000 members. This in turn can bring benefits to…

11 February 2026 · 2 min read

Christianity

“You are not alone” write LWF leaders to Ukrainian church

Pointing to the recent intensification of drone and missile attacks targeting civilians and civilian infrastructure, the LWF leaders say that “deliberate attacks on energy infrastructure as temperatures have dropped to…

10 February 2026 · 1 min read

Christianity

Canonization of 16 Romanian Saints Held in Bucharest

On February 6, the general glorification (later, local glorifications will be held in the dioceses on the day of their memory) of 16 Romanian saints took place in the Patriarchal…

8 February 2026 · 5 min read

Christianity

Orthodox Fundamentalism: Social Portrait and Sources (part 1)

By Konstantin Kostyuk Among the social changes in the post-Soviet period, a phenomenon such as Orthodox fundamentalism has increasingly attracted attention. Due to the long atheistic tradition and the secular…

8 February 2026 · 38 min read

Christianity

Italy’s Christian churches sign first ecumenical pact

Like many European nations, Italy has seen a significant decline in participation within all the traditional mainline churches. “The only exception we notice is in the Pentecostal and charismatic communities,…

5 February 2026 · 2 min read

International

The Holy Ark

The Ark of the Covenant [Hebrew: κιβωτὸς τῆς διαθήκης], according to the Old Testament, is the most important sacred object symbolizing the presence of God and located within the Tabernacle…

4 February 2026 · 10 min read