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Restoration works at the historic Monastery of St. John, also known as Vazelon Monastery, the oldest Orthodox monastery in the Pontus region of the southeast Black Sea, have ceased, with the cited reason being the exhaustion of funding by Turkey’s culture and tourism ministry. The Turkish ministry claimed that all available funding was used to…

  The health of the Bishop Budimlye and Niksic, His Grace Ioannicus, is steadily improving, according to an official announcement issued his bishopric. His Grace had been tested positive for the Covid-19 virus. The hierarch was appointed as the administrator of the Metropolitanate of Montenegro and the Littoral by the Patriarch of Serbia, His Holiness…

The memory of the saint was celebrated by the Patriarchate of Alexandria at the Patriarchal Vicariate, in Cairo’s Hamzawi district, where a cell and chapel dedicated to St. Nektarios’ memory are located. The festal Vespers were held in the courtyard of the Church complex, due to COVID-19 restrictive measures, with the Patriarchal Vicar of Cairo,…

The official poster for the upcoming and highly-anticipated film “Man of God”, based on the life, works and miracles of St. Nektarios, was unveiled this week, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the saint’s repose. The feature length film by director Yelena Popovic is expected to debut in movie theaters next year. The…

  The Church today venerates the memory of Nektarios the Wonderworker, Metropolitan of Pentapolis, a contemporary saint of the Orthodox Church who reposed in the early part of the 20th century. This year, in fact, marks the centennial of the saint’s repose in the Lord. Yesterday, Sunday, was the feast day of the Synaxis, or…

On Sunday, October 26 / November 8, 2020, the Patriarchate celebrated the feast of the Holy Great Martyr Demetrius the Myrrh-streamer at the Patriarchate. On this feast the Church commemorates Saint Demetrius, who came from Thessalonica and suffered a martyr’s death in this city for the faith in Christ, during the reign of Maximian in…

The Polish Council of Bishops’ Exhortation to Their Priests and Monastics During the Pandemic On Tuesday, November 3, the Polish Council of Bishops met in Warsaw under the chairmanship of His Beatitude Metropolitan Sawa of Warsaw and All Poland. Among other matters, the hierarchs discussed the life of the Church in this extended time of…

  Yelena Popovic, writer and director of “Man of God”, the film about St. Nektarios’s life, offered Basilica News Agency an exclusive interview in which she speaks of the value of Orthodoxy and of God’s presence in her life and in the life of the film’s collaborators. The movie was made in cooperation with the…