His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia expressed condolences yesterday to President Emanuel Macron of France and Bishop André Marceau of Nice of the Catholic church for those slain and injured in the knife attack at the Notre-Dame Basilica in Nice on Thursday. His messages, published on the site of the Moscow Patriarchate,…

On Sunday, October 19/ November 1, 2020, the shipowner Mr Athanasios Martinos visited the Patriarchate. Mr Martinos and his companion, architect Mr Gregorios Pinelis, were received by H.H.B. our Father and Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos and Hagiotaphite Fathers at the Catholicon of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. There, at the presence of the Consul…

The Ambassador of Kazakhstan to Romania visited Putna Monastery on Friday and was impressed by the monastic settlement, the history of Bukovina, Saints Stephen the Great and Jacob of Putna. On his first visit to Bukovina, Ambassador Nurbakh Rustemov was accompanied by his wife and one of their daughters. The Ambassador especially appreciated the unique…

Fr Aurel Mihai, vicar at the Archdiocese of Bucharest, led a memorial service on Friday morning for the 65 victims of the deadly fire that broke out during a concert at the Colectiv Club in Bucharest in 2015. The service that was performed at Bucur Square next to the building that once housed the Colectiv…

Adelaide’s Greek Orthodox Archdiocese has issued a memorandum regarding the abortion bill tabled by South Australia’s Parliament. The text reads as follows: Dear Reverend Fathers, brothers and sisters in Christ, As you may be aware, [on 14 October] a new Bill was tabled in SA parliament under the guise of decriminalising abortion. There are supposedly…

After months of hard lockdown measures in Melbourne the easing of the COVID-19 regulations that all but halted religious life in parishes is starting to stir again with churches being allowed to open their doors to 10 people per service and the hope that this will increase to 20 or more on 8 November. Archepiscopal…

The earthly remains of Metropolitan Amfilohije were prayerfully met in the Cathedral of Christ’s Resurrection in Podgorica, capital of Montenegro, as they had been previously sent from the Cetinje Monastery, where the Holy Liturgy had been celebrated for the repose of the soul of the Archbishop of blessed memory on 31 of October 2020. The…

A cross has been ripped down from a Greek Orthodox Church in a part of Syria controlled by U.S.-backed militants. The St. Sergius and Bacchus Greek Orthodox Church in the city of Tabqa near Raqqa had radical Islamists remove the cross after Friday’s Islamic prayers in a local mosque. Although commentators refer to this action…

Police have arrested a suspect after a gunman shot and seriously injured a Greek Orthodox priest in the French city of Lyon, local media have reported. The priest, named by French media as Nikolaos Kakavelakis, was shot at twice and seriously injured in the stomach at about 4pm local time on Saturday as he was…