Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will travel to Serbia on October 28-29, a meeting with the Serbian leader is planned, spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova said Thursday. “On October 28-29, a visit of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to Serbia will take place,” she said. “A meeting with the Serbian president is…

The Russian Orthodox Church has raised a question of legality of collecting and using personal data of citizens. “I can say that, at least among Orthodox believers, there are certain concerns about the development of new digital technologies, and we all see this concern, and we do not intend to ignore it, because we cannot…

On October 22, 1991, Patriarch Bartholomew was elected to the Ecumenical Throne. His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew is the spiritual leader of 300 million Orthodox Christians worldwide. On the 29th Anniversary of His Election to the Ecumenical Throne, the Director of the Press and Communication Office of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, Nikos Papachristou, published a…

The 3rd Congress of the Romanian Orthodox Diocese of Canada – Virtual Congress –   In accordance with Chapter 4 of the Statute of the Romanian Orthodox Diocese of Canada, His Grace Bishop Ioan Casian convened the 3rd Congress of the Diocese for Friday and Saturday, October 16 and 17, 2020. Due to the situation created by the…

Located on the Greek island of Chios is another treasure from Greece’s long history, now listed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List. Nea Moni, or “New Monastery,” which was built in the 11th century, was constructed on the slopes of Mt. Provateio, approximately 15 kilometers from Chios town. It houses some of the finest mosaics in…

On October 22, 2020, during his working visit to Syria, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate department for external church relations, visited the Damascus Representation of the Russian Orthodox Church, where he was welcomed by the rector of the representation and representative of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia to the…

  The authorities of Ordu province, in northern Turkey, announced on Monday that experts from the Bodrum Museum of Underwater Archaeology found the ruins of a church on the bottom of Lake Gaga, submerged 15 meters below the surface. The age of these vestiges is yet to be determined. The 15-acre lake is the most…

An interactive digital exhibition with codices, illuminated manuscripts and objects from the heritage of the Holy Mount Athos is open for the public at the Concert Hall in Athens. The event presents the digitalization work made by the Athonite monks. The visitors can also see a day from a monk’s life – a very welcome…

Church and state representatives have teamed up to make another call for the name of Tsar Nicholas II to be returned to the Severnaya Zemlya (Northern Land) Archipelago in the Russian Arctic. The archipelago was opened in 1913 by an expedition sent by the Tsar and was thus named after him, though the islands were…