Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov this week also commented on the Hagia Sophia provocation, saying that while Moscow recognizes Turkish authorities’ right to determine uses for the basilica, its status as a world heritage monument must also be taken account.

The mayor of the central Greece city of Larissa, Apostolos Kalogiannis, spoke to the Orthodoxia news agency this week over an initiative by his municipality towards UNESCO, regarding the shocking decision by the Turkish president last July to convert the Hagia Sophia into a mosque. The initiative comes ahead of a conference of UNESCO’s Global…

Turkish provocations continued unabated this week throughout the east Mediterranean and Near East, with the autocratic and now unabashedly Islamist Erdogan regime engaging in illegal hydrocarbon exploration in waters that Ankara unilaterally claims as its own, along direct Turkish involvement and meddling in military conflicts in the Caucasus, throughout the Levant and Libya, and lastly,…

The Church today venerates the memory of St. Euthymius the New of Thessalonica and Mt Athos.

On Sunday, October 11, the Circle of Serbian Sisters at the parish of St. John the Baptist in Dapt, celebrated its glory – the Protection of the Most Holy Mother of God. The Holy Hierarch’s Liturgy was served by His Eminence Bishop Mr. Siluan, with the assistance of archpriests-staurophores Ilija Dragosavljević and Ljupko Čubrilović and…

The first Islamic prayer at the Monastery of Chora in Constantinople (Κωνσταντινούπολη, Turkish: İstanbul) will be performed by the Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on October 30, giving the “anointing” of Islamism to another monument of Christianity. The doors of the Monastery of Chora, which have been closed for two months due to its conversion…

During the struggle of the current coronavirus pandemic, The Greek Orthodox Parish & Community of The Resurrection of Christ, Our Lady of Myrtles and St Elesa, Kogarah under the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia, with the blessing of His Eminence Archbishop Makarios, has founded a new initiative to help those struggling and in need. Together…

On Thursday, October 8, 2020, when the Holy Church commemorates the repose of Venerable Sergius, Abbot of Radonezh and Wonderworker of All Russia, Metropolitan Hilarion of Eastern America and New York celebrated Divine Liturgy in St Sergius Church at the Synodal Headquarters in New York City. Concelebrating with the First Hierarch of the Russian Church…

The Moscow publisher “Traditsiya” came out with a Russian-language book by the eminent Church scholar of the 20th century, Archimandrite Konstantin (Zaitsev), long-time editor of Pravoslavnay Rus (Orthodox Rus’) and resident of Holy Trinity Monastery in Jordanville, NY. titled, The Podvig of Orthodox Russianness. The book is a collection of articles by Fr Konstantin published…