The Serbian Patriarchate issued a statement yesterday in response to accusations against Visoki Dečani Monastery and its abbot Archimandrite Sava (Janjic) made by Kosovo Albanians after the European organization Europa Nostra included the monastery in its list of the most threated European cultural heritage sites. “Media reports about the extremely unfounded and malicious accusations of…

On Wednesday 1/14 April 2021, on the 5th week of Lent, at the Monastic Church of Saints Constantine and Helen along with the Service of the Small compline the Great Canon of Saint Andrew Archbishop of Crete was read, led by His Beatitude our Father and Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos with the co-prayer of the…

The Church today venerates the memory of Aristarchus, Pudens and Trophimus, the Apostles of the 70. Today is also the feast day of Thomais, the Martyr of Alexandria.

The Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia, His Holiness and Beatitude Ilia II, was the latest Orthodox Primate this week to convey His condolences to Queen Elizabeth II over the death of her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Philip. The Ecumenical Patriarch, His All Holiness Bartholomew, had previously expressed his sorrow and offered condolences following the…

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…