The dean of the school of economics and management at the Thesslaoniki-based International Hellenic University, Evangelos Christou, referred to the need to train professionals active in Greece’s religious tourism and pilgrimages sector. Prof. Christou said that despite the continual growth of this specific type of tourism in Greece, a shortage of trained staff and professionals…

  The director of the Moscow Patriarchate’s commission on family matters, protection of motherhood and childhood, Maria Studenikina, this week again called for the designation of abortion as a death of a human. She added that the number of abortions in the vast country should be included in public health statistics for mortality in Russia….

Israel announced that it will ease lockdown restrictions, as studies there reveal that the Pfizer vaccine is nearly 86 percent effective in preventing hospitalizations and death from Covid-19. As of Sunday, shops, libraries and museums can open, but social distancing and masks are still required. The Israeli health ministry referred to the first stage of…

  The Bishop of Budmilje and Niksic, His Grace Ioannicus, the temporary vicar – or locum tenens – of the Serbian Orthodox Church’s Metropolis of Montenegro and the Littoral, met this week with the new Prime Minister of the small Adriatic country, Zdravko Krivokapić, as well as the Montenegro’s parliament president, Aleksa Bečić. The meeting…

Official Turkey continued its provocations this week, with the Islamist Erdogan regime threatening to conduct hydrocarbon research in a sea region in the Aegean Sea that is far removed from the nearest Turkish territorial waters or even entails the remotest prospect of being part of that country’s continental shelf. The latest belligerence comes after Turkey’s…

  Reports in Athens this week have the relevant civil protection authority extending, for another week, pandemic-related restrictions in the greater Athens area, or alternatively, easing restrictions on some activities, namely, in the retail sector, as of March 1. Final decisions will be announced on Friday. Meanwhile, the level of immunity in the country against…

The Church today commemorates the Finding of the Precious Relics of the Holy Martyrs, in Constantinople’s Eugenius Quarter. The holy relics of these saints were found when Thomas I was Patriarch of Constantinople.

Russian society has become too accustomed to legalized abortions, but including abortions in national mortality statistics could help change public perception, believes Maria Studenikina, the head of the Maternity Protection Division of the Russian Church’s Synodal Department for Social Service and Charity. Studenikina, who also serves as director of the Orthodox Mercy service’s Home for…

Two ice storms wreaked havoc on West Virginia earlier this month, hitting Wayne Country particularly hard. Holy Cross Monastery (Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia) in the town of Wayne, West Virginia, is making an appeal to the Orthodox faithful after suffering severe damage in the storms. The monastery reported yesterday that it has been…