President of Montenegro, Milo Djukanović, sent the adopted laws back to the Parliament, including the Law on Freedom of Religion, for reconsideration. The reason for that, as he states, is the open issue of quorum at the session at which those laws were adopted, as well as the legal issue of the mandate of the…

The Metropolitanate of Zagreb-Ljubljana calls upon all people of goodwill, who want and can, to help the victims of the earthquakes that stroke the Croatian cities of Petrinja, Sisak and Glina on December 28 and 29. Donations can be paid to the following account: Serbian Orthodox Church in Croatia, Diocese of Zagreb-Ljubljana Sberbank d.d. Varšavska…

His Grace Bishop Joanikije of Budimye-Niksic and the Administrator of Metropolitanate of Montenegro and the Littoral and Their Graces Bishops Jovan of Slavonia and Kirilo of Buenos Aires and South America celebrated the Holy Hierarchal Liturgy in the Cetinje Monastery on 2 January 2021. During the Liturgy Bishop Joanikije ordained hieromonk of Cetinje Monastery Justin…

His Grace Bishop Jovan of Slavonia celebrated the Holy Hierarchal Liturgy in the church of The Entry of the Most Holy Theotokos into the Temple in Gornji Ostrog on 1 January 2021, on the feast day of Saint Boniface of Tarsus. The Bishop was concelebrated by protopresbyter-staurophor Dragan Krusic, parish priest of Niksic, and a…

John, Bishop of Caracas and South America has issued his Nativity Epistle. The Epistle reads: But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons (Gal. 4. 4-5)….

The established annual memorial service for the departed Fathers, memorable Patriarchs of Jerusalem, Archbishops, Hieromonks and Monks and Nuns was held on Sunday, 21 December 2020 / 3 January 2021, Sunday before the Nativity of Christ, after the Divine Liturgy at the Catholicon of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. The service was officiated by…

On Thursday, 18/31 December 2020, the Patriarchate celebrated the feast of our Father among the Saints Modestos, Patriarch of Jerusalem. On this feast, the Church, and especially the Church of Jerusalem commemorates that Saint Modestos was ordained Patriarch of Jerusalem right after the destruction of Palestine by the Persians in A.D. 614. During this Persian…

On December 27, 2020, Metropolitan Vladimir of Chisinau and all Moldova celebrated the Divine Liturgy in the Nativity of the Lord Cathedral on the Sunday of Forefathers (the 29th Sunday after Pentecost). The arch-pastor was assisted at the service by Cathedral Dean and Metropolitan Secretary, archpriest Vadim Cheibas, and the synaxis of priests and deacons of…

In his New Year’s message, Metropolitan Teofan of Moldavia and Bukovina urged everyone to be closer to God. He urged more hope that God would not leave us and that the Mother of God would not forsake us. “Holy joy, a blessed end of the year, and the coming year to be a time of…