Still in the wider region, the historic monastery of Visoki Decani, in Kosovo and Metohija, has once again been targeted by ethnic Albanian mass media in the province, with the intent being to intimidate the monastery’s brotherhood, its Abbot, Archimandrite Savva, and by extension, the entire Serbian Orthodox Church. In Belgrade, an announcement by the…

The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, on Wednesday received, at the Phanar-district Patriarchate, the visiting foreign minister of Greece, Nikos Dendias. The meeting was widely covered by the Turkish media. The top Greek diplomat first conveyed his and the Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ condolences over the recent death of a…

The Metropolitan of Samos and Ikaria, His Eminence Eusevios, this week received assurances from the municipal authorities on the eastern Aegean island of Samos that municipal halls will be made available to the Church for this month’s Holy Services of Easter Week, given the damages incurred by cathedrals and chapels on the island from a…

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Thirty years after the fall of the Soviet Union, the Russian Orthodox Church is still working to revive all that was lost during the dark decades of Soviet rule. Most recently, daily Divine services have resumed at the site of another monastery that was abolished by the godless authorities. On Saturday, April 10, regular services…

His Holiness Porfirije, Serbian Patriarch received His Excellency Dr. Zeljko Jovic, Ambassador of the Republic of Serbia to the Republic of Bulgaria in the Serbian Patriarchate on 12 April 2021. During the meeting with Ambassador Jovic, Serbian Patriarch Porfirije pointed out that he was glad that the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, led by Patriarch Neophyte, was…

Meeting under the chairmanship of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia at Moscow’s Danilov Monastery yesterday, the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church resolved to create a Bioethics Committee to continue to study the issue of in-vitro fertilization, reports the press service of the Russian Orthodox Church. The document, “Ethical Problems…

A portion of the holy relics of St. John Vladimir were recently returned to the Albanian Orthodox Church. St. John Vladimir was a 10th-century Serbian prince and is known as a beacon of Orthodoxy in Albania and throughout the Balkans. The relics had been previously been kept the National History Museum in Tirana. His Eminence…

In the lead up to Greek Orthodox Easter, the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia, District of Northcote, Victoria, have launched a Byzantine art and craft exhibition titled ‘Anastasi.’ The exhibition, which was organised by the District of Northcote Book Centre in collaboration with Uriel’s Workshop Art Gallery, features art such as traditional styled icons and…