The assistant bishop to the Archdiocese of Bucharest, His Grace Timotei of Prahova, urged everyone to stay away from the state of formalism, malice and hypocrisy.” “If we have something to say, we should always tell the person in question, not talk around the corner. Not indirectly, not hitting in some and in others, as…

NICOSIA — Restaurants and malls on Cyprus will lose the critical Christmas and holiday period for customers and sales, ordered to close as of Dec. 11 until the end of the year in an attempt to slow the spread of COVID-19, as will churches. “There is no such thing as good or nice restrictions, these…

BROOKLINE, MA – His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America visited the campus of Hellenic College Holy Cross to conduct an `Aghiasmos’ (blessing of the waters) at the newly renovated Maliotis Cultural Center. The Service was a fitting celebratory symbol of the Center’s rebirth after a protracted period of legal difficulties, recently resolved successfully thanks largely…

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Today the Bulgarian Orthodox church celebrates the Conception of the Most Holy Theotokos by Saint Anna, who is patron saint of all things feminine, of marriage, family and motherhood. In folklore, besides motherhood, this day is also associated with the turning of the Sun to the East towards spring, and the increase of the length…

The new leader of the Turkish Cypriot community on the divided island republic this week continued his verbal provocations, taking his cue from Ankara, which illegally occupies one-third of Cyprus. Ersin Tatar told media in the occupied areas of Cyprus that “…Varosha is ours”, a reference to a coastal ghost town abandoned since August 1974….

The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, this week received the new German ambassador to Turkey, Jürgen Schulz, at the Patriarchate’s Phanar-district seat.

A ceremony dedicating the Cathedral of St. Nicholas in the Ibrahimiyyah district of Alexandria has been cancelled. The ceremony was set for Friday, but was postponed due to the sudden repose of the Alexandria Patriarchate’s Metropolitan of Pelusium, Nifon.   

The Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church was convened online on Tuesday, chaired by the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, His Holiness Kirill. In an address to the attending hierarchs, His Holiness warned of a risk of a third wave of the pandemic, as well as the need to strictly apply all of…