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Christ is Risen!
With these holy and eternally alive words, I congratulate all of you – God-loving archpastors and pastors, pious monks and nuns, dear brothers and sisters – on our greatest Christian feast, the Bright and Glorious Resurrection of our Lord God and Saviour Jesus Christ.
With a sense of Paschal joy and special spiritual closeness, despite the distances separating us, I greet you, Eminent Brother-Archpastors, reverend fathers, dear brothers and sisters scattered throughout the world, on this great and light-bearing day of the Pascha of Christ!
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I address all of you, Orthodox Christians living in many countries of the world, who are now in churches or praying in your homes, to extend greetings to you on the great feast of Holy Pascha with my heart full of spiritual joy, and to proclaim victoriously in accord with ancient tradition:
CHRIST IS RISEN!
The Union of Orthodox Journalists reports that Metropolitan Pavel, the abbot of the Kiev Caves Lavra, was been placed under house arrest and charged with violating the Criminal Code by "inciting inter-religious hatred" and "justifying Russia's armed aggression" (despite the fact that he has publicly condemned the invasion without reservation). His trial is currently scheduled for Monday.
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During an extraordinary session on Feb. 23, 2023 in Balamand, Lebanon; His Beatitude Patriarch John X of Antioch and All the East and the Holy Synod of Antioch elected His Eminence Metropolitan Saba to lead the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese...
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