On the night of New Calendar December 24th, the ecumenist Patriarch of Serbia, Irinei, allowed the local Anglican community to use one of his churches in Belgrade, as well as attended the Anglican Christmas services. Patriarch Irinei is well-known for his ecumenical views and practices, such as participating in Jewish religious services. The Serbian...

It's gotten to the point where we don't even need to add commentary anymore. It just speaks for itself. From OrthoChristian.com: The newly-created Ukrainian Church needs to work on softening its views towards the LGBT community and supporting the gay community in Ukraine in order to not be like the conservative Russian Church, “Metropolitan” Epiphany Dumenko,...

(source) On the results of the discussion of 9-10 November 2018 Discussions were held in Paris, 9-10 November 2018, between delegations of representatives of the Russian True Orthodox Church (RTOC), (that part of the church which is no longer subordinate to the Synod of Archbishop Tikhon of Omsk and Siberia and is temporarily under the...

From 8/21 to 10/23 November 2018 a meeting of the Synod of Bishops of the Russian True Orthodox Church was conducted.  The RTOC's First Hierarch is Archbishop Tikhon of Omsk, who succeeded Archbishop Lazar (Zhurbenko).  During the Synod meeting, two anathemas were passed, and ordered to be included in the Synodikon of Orthodoxy.  These...

The Fruits of a Schism Last month (October, 2018), the Agafangel Synod deposed two of its bishops (Archbishop Andronik of Canada, and Archbishop Sophroni of St. Petersburg, Russia), and summoned the suspended Abbot Andrei (Erastov) from Australia. Why is this important to the Orthodox Faithful? Because the kaleidoscopic deceit of this synod continues to spin...

Despite the fight over ecclesiastical territorial recognition and control in the Ukraine, and despite attempts by more sincere MP members to steer the breach in communion between the Phanar and Moscow into a more productive dispute over Ecumenism, the Moscow Patriarchate's chief representative under the Patriarch, and its head of the Department of External...

MP spokesman in Jerusalem says that concelebrations and communion may be cut off between MP and JP over Kiev; as it is, communion between the EP and the MP is over and done with: Hegumen Nikon, Secretary of the Russian Orthodox Church in Jerusalem, says: "If the Patriarchate of Jerusalem takes the side of the...

NFTU Note:  Earlier this year, before the Autonomous Orthodox Metropolia of the Americas re-entered communion with its Sister Synod in Greece , an agreement was worked out to solve any lingering questions.  This statement supersedes previous statements.  From the Metropolia website the following was stated: http://orthodoxmetropolia.org/2018/09/09/synodal-chancery-statement-prior-to-visit-to-greece/ As previously mentioned, a...

The claims made by former Aglipayan priests, then baptized laypeople in the Moscow Patriarchate just three years hence, were incredibly serious. What had been presented in the mainstream Orthodox media in the West and Russia as a joyous missionary success was at best a failure of catastrophic proportions or at worst a deliberate attempt...

If Romfea is to be believed, this is already been decided and agreed upon. While remarriage of clergy has been (rarely) allowed in terms of economy, never has the rule of being the “husband of one wife” been overturned. Until now. It is unclear as to the motivations of the change. To read the full...

The news on the break in communion between Moscow and Constantinople is coming in so quickly, that it is probably best to just note what is being said right from official organs at this point: we here at NFTU have never seen anything like this. Don’t ask us: we’re just watching. Read more for...

Over the past year, discussion were held between the Bishops of the Autonomous Orthodox Metropolia and the Churches of Metropolitan Anghelos of Avlona and Metropolitan Seraphim over the question of acceptance of the heresy of Imyaslavie. Satisfied with the reversal of the Greek and Russian positions, communion was restored, with the approval of the...