Deacon Dr. Aleksandar Prascevic defended his postdoctoral project on “The Contribution of the Serbian Orthodox Church to the Dialogue with Muslims (1920-2020)” at the School of Theology of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, under scientific supervision of professor Dr. Angeliki Ziaka. The event took place on January 14, 2021. This postdoctoral thesis in Greece is…

On the feast day of the Circumcision of the Lord and the memory of Saint Basil the Great, Archbishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia, a Patron Saint-day of the side chapel in the Bishop’s palace in Novi Sad was celebrated. The celebration of the feast daty of the side chapel in the Bishop’s palace commenced in…

According to the already established liturgical order of the Holy Church, rejoicing in New Year of the Lord and the blessings that will bring us, the beginning of the New Year and the name day of His Grace Bishop Vasilije of Srem were solemnly marked in Cathedral Church in Sremski Karlovci. The feast day’s Vesper…

Renovation of the Cathedral church, the Patriarchal Palace and the Boarding School of the Theological Seminary His Grace Bishop Vasilije of Srem accompanied by the Rector of the Theological Seminary, archpriest Jovan Milanovic, the head of the Cathedral Church, and priest Dusko Maslaric, the Secretary of the Diocese, received Mr. Igor Mirovicć, President of the…

The MECC Service and Relief Department – Diakonia organized psychosocial support sessions for 248 citizens living in Mount Lebanon and its South. Hence, 32 women participated in 8 psychosocial support and gender-based violence (GBV) awareness sessions, especially that some of them struggle with psychological problems and loneliness due to the complete lockdown imposed by the…

MECC supported 135 cancer patients who are affected and displaced, from different Syrian governorates through providing needed cancer medications. The beneficiaries’ ages ranged from 3 to 90. The targeted patients suffer from intolerable financial burdens making them unable to afford the high expenses of long-term treatment. One of the beneficiaries, who is 32 years old,…

His Grace Bishop Elpidios of Kyaneon visited the Holy Monastery of Pantanassa in Mangrove Mountain, NSW, together with Fr Stavros Ivanos, parish priest of St Stephanos in Hurlstone Park, Sydney, on Saturday 16 January. His Grace was warmly welcomed by the Abbot of the Monastery, the Very Rev. Archimandrite Eusebios, the former Abbot, the Very…

Thanks to its 10th annual “Give Joy for Christmas” campaign, the Mercy Orthodox relief service of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Synodal Department for Church Charity and Social Services was able to raise more than $81,500 to purchase more than 13,000 Christmas gifts for the needy. Altogether, $81,660 (6 million rubles)—twice as much as last year—was donated…

Speaking at trapeza on the great feast of the Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ, Elder Parthenius, the abbot of St. Paul’s Monastery on Mt. Athos, spoke about a prayer against the coronavirus that he reads at the end of his prayer rule. In the same talk, he also addressed the issue of coronavirus vaccines,…