Events commemorating the 194th anniversary of the heroic resistance and destruction of Psara during the Greek War of Independence were held on the eastern Aegean island over the past weekend. An archieratical Great Vespers was held on Saturday at the Cathedral of St. John the Forerunner and the Church of St. Anne of the Black…

The Patriarchate of Georgia on Tuesday expressed its sorrow over the violence and injuries which occurred the previous day, during protests in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, against a so-called gay pride parade. At the same time, the Georgian Orthodox Church strenuously rejected criticism that it in any way incited aggressive behaviour, reminding that the…

Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias on Monday visited the Black Sea port city of Odessa, which for centuries hosted a historic and vibrant ethnic Greek community. The Greek minister was in the Ukraine to attend the opening of an international forum  in Kiev, followed by a meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Ku-LE-ba. Dendias visited…

The Church today venerates the memory of Sisoes the Great. This saint, great and renowned among the ascetics of Egypt, lived in the 4th century in the skete of Nitria. After the death of St. Anthony the Great, he left the skete, an Orthodox monastic community that allows for the relative isolation for monks, to…

On June 26, 2021, the Metropolis of Kishinev-Moldova supplied 1000 doses of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine to replenish the stocks of the Vaccination Marathon conducted in the Palace of the Republic in Kishinev. As was recently reported, 2 thousand doses of the Sputnik V vaccine were delivered to Moldova with a blessing of His…

On 25th June 2021, a consignment of the Russian ‘Sputnik-V’ vaccine was delivered to Lebanon with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia and with assistance of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations. Meeting the relief consignment at the Beirut-Rafic Hariri International Airport were Archimandrite Romanos (Hannat), abbot…

The Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops of Germany (OBKD) at its 22nd meeting stressed the importance of the Holy Eucharist during the Covid-19 crisis. The meeting took place on June 23, 2021, in Cologne, at the headquarters of the Orthodox Antiochian Metropolis of Germany and Central Europe, with the participation of representatives of the Greek,…

On July 1, 2021, at the Patriarchal Palace in Belgrade, His Holiness Porfirije, the Serbian Patriarch received the newly appointed ambassadors of the Republic of Serbia to the Syrian Arab Republic, Mr. Radovan Stojanovic; to the Kingdom of Morocco, Mr. Ivan Bauer; and to the Democratic Republic of Congo Professor Miroljub Jevtic. Serbian Patriarch Porfirije…

On the 3rd and 4th of July 2021 His Eminence Archbishop Nikitas of Thyateira & Great Britain made his first archpastoral visit to the church of the 318 Godbearing Fathers in Shrewsbury. His Eminence was accompanied by Archimandrite Nikodemos, the Chancellor of the Archdiocese. Following his arrival His Eminence presided over Great Vespers after which…