Middle East Council of Churches implemented a Grants Program, which included an advanced business course for 22 beneficiaries from Damascus and its rural areas who passed the basic business course. The six-day course addressed the basics of marketing, sales and feasibility study development. Every participant prepared a feasibility study for their proposed projects, then, a…

From April 2020 to January 23, 2021, priests of the Moscow region made 1,302 visits to patients with coronavirus to perform the Sacraments at home and in hospitals. In particular, priests from specially formed groups visited patients at their homes 499 times, and in hospitals 803 times (a total of 57 hospitals were visited), according…

Metropolitan Vladimir of Chisinau and all Moldova celebrated Divine Liturgy on the Sunday after  Theophany, or, Baptism of the Lord, at the Metropolitan Cathedral in Chisinau. The first hierarch was assisted at the service by the Cathedral Dean, archpriest Vadim Ceibas, the dean of Portuguese parishes of Corsun Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church, archpriest…

With the blessing of His Eminence Archbishop Kyrill, a thanksgiving moleben was held on Sunday, January 24, 2021, at Holy Virgin Cathedral by the relics of St John of Shanghai and San Francisco after Divine Liturgy. It was available via livestream on the Cathedral’s website: http://sfsobor.tilda.ws/livestreaming After World War II and the defeat of Japan, a…

Archbishop Elpidophoros of America marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day with a post on social media on Wednesday. On Twitter, he wrote in English: “Our opposition to anti-Semitism is a measure of our society’s spiritual health or sickness. Every person of faith should confront and challenge stereotyping, discrimination and dehumanization. That’s how we truly honor Holocaust…

January 27, 2021 The day started very early – an early morning drive to Ol Kalau His Eminence Metropolitan Makarios of Nairobi visited Papadhia Ndundu, the Papadhia of Fr. David Ndundu – such a blessing for the Papadhia who was not feeling very well. His Eminence went to see her and to anoint her with…

His Grace Bishop Jovan of Sumadija and the Administrator of the Archbishopric of Belgrade-Karlovci celebrated the Holy Hierarchal Liturgy in the Saint Sava Cathedral in the Vracar district, in Belgrade on 27 January 2021, on Saint Sava Day. The Bishop was concelebrated by archpriest Nenad Jovanovic, presbyters Vladimir Levicanin, Dragan Sovljanski, Predrag Prodic, Ivan Strbacki…

Sunday 24th of January 2021 marked the official opening of the new headquarters of the Pontian Brotherhood of SA Inc. Founded in 1958, the Pontian Brotherhood of SA was the first Greek-Pontian association in South Australia. Headquartered at 674 Torrens Road, Pennington SA since 1986, the brotherhood recognised the need to replace their ageing hall….

On Wednesday, 14/27 January 2021, the Chief of the Palestinian Affairs Unit of the U.S.A. Embassy (formerly the US Consulate of Jerusalem) Mr George Noll visited the Patriarchate, accompanied by two of his colleagues. Mr George Noll was received by H.H.B. our Father and Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos and Hagiotaphite Fathers. In this visit, His…