IOCC, in partnership with the UN's World Food Programme, is also distributing essential food items to more than 35,000 individuals who were affected by the 2008 war. Read more...

Remember those who are in Prison, as though you were in prison with them; those who suffer evil, as though you yourselves were suffering Read more...

Embracing People with Disabilities within the Church Read more...

Lebanese public school students are getting a better education in science thanks to IOCC science labs. Read more...

Brookline, Mass - The 2009 Annual Conference of Orthodox Christian Association of Medicine, Psychology, and Religion (OCAMPR) will focus on Care for the Severely Challenged Patient. Read more...

Mobile, Alabama -Tonie Ann Torrans takes pleasure in describing Penelope House, the shelter she runs for battered women, as "Fort Knox." She leads a visitor through an electronic fence lined with barbed wire. Read more...

The Spring Session of the Standing Conference of the Canonical Orthodox Bishops in the Americas (SCOBA) met on June 25, 2009 from 10:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m., hosted by the Representation of the Moscow Patriarchate in the USA at the St. Nicholas Patriarchal Cathedral, 15 East 97th Street in New York City. This was the first time that SCOBA had convened at this historic Cathedral. It was also the first time that the Moscow Patriarchate participated since re-joining the SCOBA after a nearly 40 year hiatus. Read more...

NEW YORK - The seventy-sixth meeting of the North American Orthodox-Catholic Theological Consultation took place at St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary in Crestwood, New York, June 1 to 3. The session, hosted by the Standing Conference of the Canonical Orthodox Bishops in the Americas (SCOBA), was co-chaired by Metropolitan Maximos of the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Pittsburgh and Archbishop Daniel Pilarczyk of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati. Read more...

New Orleans, Louisiana - Kirk Stevens uses everything he has - even the homemade tattoos on his arms - to gain credibility with his kindergarten to 12th grade students. Stevens is the academic director of the afterschool program at Desire Street Ministries, a school and community outreach program founded in 1995 to help boys who typically fall through the cracks of the public school system in New Orleans' Upper Ninth Ward. Read more...

(Baltimore, MD) - International Orthodox Christian Charities (IOCC) is launching a new program to increase the capacity of the Romanian Orthodox Church to more effectively help Romanian communities achieve economic sustainability and overcome severe social issues. Read more...