About cana.love

cana.love is named after the wedding at Cana in Galilee, where, in the second chapter of John's Gospel, Christ performed His first miracle: the wine ran out at a wedding feast, and He turned water into wine so that the feast could go on. Every Christian tradition reads that story as a blessing on marriage itself, and it is the reason a site about marriage carries this name. The domain is the name: cana.love, written in lowercase, everywhere.

cana.love is for adults who want to marry and who take faith and family seriously: Orthodox Christians looking for a spouse who shares the practice as well as the name; Catholics and Protestants who want a marriage grounded in their faith; and people who hold the same values about marriage and family without a confession of their own. Members set their own filters for whom they want to see, by faith, practice and intention.

cana.love is not an Orthodox-only platform, and we would rather say that here than have you find it out after registering. It is open to Christians of different traditions and to people who honor those values. What the site does promise is that your tradition, your practice and your intention are questions on the form and not afterthoughts, and that the people you meet answered the same questions. Faith background is asked, and it is always optional: Orthodox Christian, Catholic, Protestant or Evangelical, other Christian, spiritual but not religious, traditional values without religion, exploring faith, or prefer not to say.

You create a profile with a one-time link or code to your email, add a photo and a few sentences about yourself, and answer the questionnaire. Every profile and photo is checked before it becomes visible. Then you search by the things that matter to you, faith, practice, intention, age, children, where someone lives, and write to the people you want to write to. Seeing who viewed you and who liked you is free; so are read receipts, favourites, notes, saved searches and everything else on the site. If someone writes to you while you are away, you get one email with everything unread.

The site runs in five fully translated languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese, German and Russian, and the people you meet may be writing in another one of them. Optional AI helpers can translate a message, draft a first one, or give advice about a conversation; they run on credits, every new member receives 150 at registration, and everything else on the site works without them. The site can be installed on a phone like an app, and there is nothing to download from a store.

Every profile and every photo is reviewed before it becomes visible; the review is automated first, and anything doubtful goes to a person. The community guidelines, published in full, say what earns a warning and what earns a permanent removal: fake profiles, fraud, asking members for money, threats, explicit content, harassment, and profiles that are not looking for marriage. A report about another member reaches us straight away, with anything involving a minor placed at the top of the queue, and you are told what came of it. Any moderation decision can be appealed, and a person reads the appeal. Blocking someone hides your profile from them completely, in search, in suggestions and by direct link.

Two rules are worth repeating on this page. Never send money to someone you have not met. And meet in a public place, tell someone where you are going, and keep the conversation on the site until you are comfortable moving it elsewhere. There is a limit of a hundred messages a day and ten new conversations, which is a defence against mass mailing, not a paywall, and cannot be lifted for money.

• NoSubscriptions, paid tiers, a "premium" badge, or a feature that is free today moving behind a price tomorrow.
• NoAdvertising.
• NoA deck of faces to judge in a second: you search by what matters and read a profile.
• NoMember counts, on this page or any other: a number you cannot check is a number you should not trust, and we would rather show you the dated list of what changed on the site than a figure.
• NoProfiles in search engines.
• NoA password.
• NoA door that opens only to one tradition: the site says who it is for, and it is for more people than one Church.

cana.love is operated by Cana SpA, a company seated in Santiago, Chile; the Terms of Service are governed by the laws of Chile and name the courts of Santiago. That is why the site speaks Spanish and Portuguese as well as English, German and Russian, and why members write to us at support@cana.love and a person answers. The site is in early access: every feature already works, and the What's new page keeps a dated record of what changed and when.

• Read the Terms of Service, which say in plain words that the site is free and offers no paid subscriptions.
• Read the community guidelines, which say what is reviewed before a profile becomes visible and what gets a member removed.
• Read the questionnaire page, which lists every question and every option as they stand on the form today, read from the form itself.
• Read the What's new page, where every entry is dated with the day it went live.
• Read the Places pages, which describe where the Church is, place by place, and are checked against the parishes' own sites.

Create your profile. Read the community guidelines before your first conversation, and the questionnaire page if you want to see the questions first. If you are Orthodox and want to know where the Church is in your state, the Places pages are for you.

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