St Savvas of Kalymnos Orthodox Church Sydney

15/06/2026

15/06/2026

HYPOCRISY! Overnight, russia struck the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, setting fire to part of the Dormition Cathedral, one of the holiest sites in the Christian world and part of a UNESCO World Heritage site.

The hypocrisy is impossible to ignore.

russia claims to defend “Christian civilization” while setting fire to one of Eastern Christianity’s holiest places.

russia claims to protect faith while bombing churches, killing civilians, abducting Ukrainian children, and trying to erase the history and identity of a Christian nation.

russia claims spiritual authority while attacking the very sacred places from which the Christian tradition of Kyivan Rus’ spread.

The Dormition Cathedral has already survived empire, war, and Soviet destruction. Retreating Soviet forces blew it up in 1941. Independent Ukraine rebuilt it in 2000. Now, once again, Moscow’s violence has come for Ukraine’s sacred and cultural inheritance.

As Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister for Humanitarian Policy and Culture Tetiana Berezhna said, an attack on the Lavra is not only about Ukraine. It is an attack on heritage that belongs to all humanity.

UCCA condemns this latest russian attack on Ukraine’s people, faith, culture, and history.

This is the true face of russia’s war: not “traditional values,” not Christianity, not peace, but terror, destruction, and contempt for human life and sacred heritage.

The world must stop treating russia’s religious language as anything other than propaganda. A state that burns churches while calling itself Christian is not defending faith. It is weaponizing it.

russia must be held accountable.

Ukraine’s people must be protected.

Ukraine’s heritage must be defended.

Слава Україні.

📷 Yevstratiy Zoria, Tetiana Berezhna

Ukrainian National Information Service (UNIS)

15/06/2026

Well done to our little ones of our Parish Sunday School who along with the Children of Kogarah & Crows Nest, came first:)

In a Christ filled atmosphere of joy and unity, and with the blessing of His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia,...

15/06/2026

Lord Have Mercy! The Historical Lavra in Kyiv with its countless Caves and relics, the equivalent of our Mt Athos....and yet the 'defenders' and so called 'saviours' of Orthodoxy russian Putinists have bombed it......well done...😡😡

14/06/2026

Our own beloved Fr Leontios!

Interesting how people who have never been to Jerusalem and the Holy Lands like to talk...yet the truth is very different!

Fr Leontios has been living in the Holy Lands for many years, currently he is at the Church of Cana-where the First Miracle took place at the Wedding in Cana of Galilee!

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZXoDGisZyf/?igsh=ZWtjNHlwd2dpbWRq

14/06/2026

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14/06/2026

Today, 2nd Sunday of Matthew

We commemorate the Holy Prophet Elisaios & St Methodios of Constantinople.

☦️The Gospel According to St.Matthew 4:18-23

➡️At that time, as Jesus walked by the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon who is called Peter and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea; for they were fishermen. And he said to them, "Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men." Immediately they left their nets and followed him. And going on from there he saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee and John his brother, in the boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets, and he called them. Immediately they left their boat and their father, and followed him. And he went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and preaching the gospel of the kingdom and healing every disease and every infirmity among the people.

12/06/2026