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Orthodox World Review

Every week Orthodox House gathers the news of the Local Orthodox Churches in seventeen languages and tells the stories worth knowing — for believers, parishes and clergy: consecrations and pilgrimages, saints and their feasts, the words of hierarchs, the quiet work of the Church across the world.

Orthodox World Review · Weekly · Oct 5 — Oct 11

Patriarch Porphyrios in Melbourne: “Where Christ Is, There Is Our Homeland

From joyful Serbian diaspora welcome in Australia to missionary journeys in Japan, teachers honoured in Moldova and saints remembered across continents, this week the Church showed again that our true home is wherever Christ dwells.

Orthodox World Review · Weekly · Sep 28 — Oct 4

Samuel Returns to Bulgaria

Thousands welcomed the relics of Tsar Samuel after a thousand years, while saints, springs, missionaries, and new churches reminded believers that the Lord still visits His people in quiet and solemn ways.

Orthodox World Review · Monthly · Sep 1 — Sep 30

Joyful Signs of Faith Across the Orthodox World

From an 80-year miracle remembered in the steppe to young hearts gathered in Syria and a new kindergarten blessing children in Africa, September carried quiet yet radiant reminders that Christ is with His people everywhere.

Orthodox World Review · Quarterly · Jul 3 — Sep 30

Romanian Saints, Bulgarian Pilgrimage, and Quiet Renewal

From newly canonised nuns in Văratec to a Bulgarian Patriarch praying at the Holy Places and teachers seeking strength before the school year, this quarter revealed the quiet, persistent life of the Orthodox Church across parishes, monaster

Orthodox World Review · Weekly · Sep 21 — Sep 27

Monument for Saint Luke Rises in Siberia

From a new church consecrated in a Russian village to missionary gatherings in Greece and a Bulgarian Patriarch praying at the Holy Places, this week the Orthodox world quietly built up the faith in many corners.

Orthodox World Review · Weekly · Aug 31 — Sep 6

Orthodox World Weekly Review — September 6, 2026

The single most important storyline of the week was the swift and orderly transition in the Georgian Orthodox Church. On 3 September the Holy Synod appointed Metropolitan Shio as Locum Tenens of the Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia follo