An Orthodox service was served for the first time in the Romanian Church in Montichiari, Italy, on Tuesday evening, February 9. Dean Rev. Gelu Porumb, the parish priest Gabriel Pandrea and several other clerics officiated the Lesser Sanctification of Waters and the Mystery of Unction, the Romanian Diocese of Italy reports. The story of the…

Celebrating his first anniversary as chaplain at St Spyridon’s Hospital in Iasi, Father Ioan Pădurariu spoke about his mission during the time of a pandemic, stressing that a hospital chaplain is “a kind of a firefighter on duty.” “In the sense that he must be present at any time in the hospital, in the morning,…

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The online platform Pemptousia hosts all of the previous online assemblies from Mount Athos with the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi. The Pemptousia.fm online radio station is also available on a 24-hour basis, with programs focusing on cultural heritage, culture and Orthodoxy.

The Bishop of Budimlje and Niksic, His Grace Ioannicus, the temporary vicar – or locum tenens – of the Serbian Orthodox Church’s Metropolis of Montenegro and the Littoral, on Sunday officiated at services at the historic Cetinje Monastery. After the Divine Liturgy, His Grace’s sermon focused on St. Tryphon, whose feast day was commemorated by…

The municipality of Elefsina, west of Athens proper in the same-name industrial district, will proceed with major upgrades to its main square and a nearby early Christian basilica dedicated to St. Zachariah, projects linked with the promotion of the adjacent archaeological site of Elefsis, considered as one of the largest and most important in Greece….

The state-appointed general director of religious foundations, Burhan Ersoy, this month was quoted as saying that the restoration and preservation of Constantinople’s historic monuments is a priority. He nevertheless added that this priority is linked with attracting more tourists to recession-battered Turkey. The specific state entity is under the jurisdiction of Turkey’s culture ministry, with…

The Church today venerates the memory of Onesimus, the Apostle of the 70. This saint was a disciple of the Apostle Paul. Onesimus is a patron saint of inmates and those serving prison sentences.

His Grace Bishop Kirilo of Buenos Aires and South-Central America celebrated the Holy Hierarchal Liturgy in Donji Ostrog on the feast day of Holy Three Hierarchs, 12 February 2021. The Bishop was concelebrated by protosynchellos Sergije, hieromonk Vladimir and hierodeacon Roman, as well as protosynchellos Evstatije from the Djurdjevi Stupovi Monastery, archpriest Radmilo Cizmovic and…