Orthodox Dispatch #24: Week of August 2 - 8, 2026

News Editor Aaron Hickman recaps the previous week’s top stories shaping the Orthodox world. Highlights include the wonderworking myrrh-streaming Hawaiian Icon of the Mother of God being welcomed to Bulgaria, developments in Holy Trinity Monastery’s battle against a proposed wind farm project, and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew presiding over services for the 1,400th anniversary of the singing of the Akathist Hymn at the Holy Spring of Panagia Blachernae.

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