Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate department for external church relations (DECR), has sent a message of greeting to His Beatitude John X, Patriarch of Great Antioch and All the East, on the occasion of his name day. Your Beatitude, Please accept my heartfelt greetings with the commemoration day of your heavenly…

His Holiness Kirill, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, has greeted the Primate of the Orthodox Church of Antioch on the day of St. John the Theologian. Your Beatitude, Beloved in the Lord Brother and Concelebrant at the Altar of God! I cordially greet you on your name day. Wishing to become like your heavenly…

On 24th September 2020, an international online conference on “Religion in Changing World. Role of Education in Upbringing of Youth” took place on the platform of the TASS press centre in Moscow, bringing together eighty participants from twenty countries. Among those who took part in the forum were religious leaders, statesmen, journalists and experts. With…

His Grace Bishop Teodosije of Raška and Prizren of the Serbian Orthodox Church published an appeal yesterday to his flock in Kosovo and Metohije, imploring them not to leave their homes, thereby abandoning their holy churches, monasteries, and cemeteries as well. The Orthodox faithful of Kosovo live under the constant threat of persecution and attacks…

The Moscow Patriarchate supports the initiative of public activists to install a monument to pregnant women in Moscow, and is calling on them to extend the project to other cities and regions, given the difficult demographic situation in Russia. The head of the Save Life charity project for women in crisis pregnancies, Ekaterina Markova, earlier…

On September 24, 2020, on the feast of St. Silouan the Athonite, His Eminence Metropolitan Andrei of Cluj, Maramureș, and Sălaj laid the foundation stone for a new church and blessed the site of a future orphanage under the patronage of the great 20th-century Athonite elder. The future orphanage in Dorzea in the Transylvanian county…

Nearly five years after its foundation tone was laid, the Agia Sophia Cathedral in Warsaw was festively consecrated on the eve of the feast of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos. The new cathedral, based on the iconic Agia Sophia Cathedral in Istanbul, is the first Orthodox church to be built in Warsaw in…

His Beatitude John X, Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, has appointed the Right Reverend Archimandrite Jack Khalil as Dean of the Saint John of Damascus Institute of Theology at the University of Balamand, in succession to the Very Reverend Father Porphyrios Georgi. Source

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