Since my arrival to Australia in June 2019, I have not, for a moment, stopped praising and thanking God who led my steps to this blessed land. I have already declared it, but I repeat it and absolutely mean it. With each passing day, I come to the greater and deeper realization that it is…

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The Bulgarian Patriarchate’s Metropolitan of Lovec, His Eminence Gavriil, was quoted this month as saying it may be time to finally examine the issue of recognizing as martyrs the clerics murdered during the communist era in the Balkan country. His Eminence called on researchers, historians and college students to seek out information and documentation detailing…

The Friends of the Bukoba Holy Mission in Tanzania this week extended their warm thanks and appreciation to the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi on Mount Athos for accepting an appeal by the Bukoba Bishopric of the Patriarchate of Alexandria, by which the Monastery covers the humble monthly salaries of the latter’s clergymen. A…

  The head of the Russian Patriarchal Commission on family matters, protection of motherhood and childhood, Fr. Theodor Lukianov, this month again touched on the issue of surrogate motherhood, a phenomenon that has expanded in Russia of late. Fr. Theodor represented the Russian Orthodox Church in a session of a special experts’ work group studying…

The new minister of Justice in Montenegro, Vladimir Leposavic, this month referred to the utterly controversial law on religious institutions, passed by the previous government in the small Adriatic country. That law generated stern opposition by the Orthodox Church in Montenegro, with almost weekly protests and rallies held around the country. Leposavic referred to a…

The 61st round of exploratory talks between Greek and Turkish diplomats began on Monday in the latter country, nearly six years after Ankara left the process. The development comes after an entire year, 2020, when Turkish belligerence, provocations and war-mongering extended from North Africa, to the eastern Mediterranean, the Mideast and as far as the…

  The Church today venerates the memory of Gregory the Theologian, Archbishop of Constantinople.

On Sunday, 11/24 January 2021, the Patriarchate celebrated the Feast of our Holy Father Theodosios the Cenobiarch. On this feast, the whole Church, and especially the Church of Jerusalem commemorates Saint Theodosios, according to the synaxarion and other sources. The Church commemorates that Saint Theodosios came to the Holy Land from his hometown Mogaristos of…