The President of the Interparliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy, MP Ionuț Vulpescu, and Romania’s Ambassador to the Holy See, His Excellency George Bologan, were received on Monday by Bishop Siluan at the headquarters of the Romanian Orthodox Diocese of Italy. During their meeting with Bishop Siluan, the discussion emphasized and appreciated the spiritual and social assistance…

On February 22, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel of Bulgaria and the accompanying church delegation made a pilgrimage to the Orthodox Monastery of St. John the Baptist in Essex, England. The monastery was founded by St. Sophrony Sakharov in 1959 and falls under the jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarchate. It is home to monks and nuns…

His Beatitude Metropolitan Sawa of Warsaw and All Poland in his message for Great Lent 2025, calls upon the faithful to enter this sacred period with a spirit of repentance, prayer, and self-restraint. As he himself emphasises, “Great Lent, known as the Holy Forty Days, is a time of spiritual toil, prayer, self-restraint, and ascetic…

On Wednesday, 26 February, His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia, officiated at the Doxology Service for the beginning of the new academic year at Saint Andrew’s Theological College in Sydney. As this Service marked the 40th year of the Theological College, which is the pride and spiritual nurturer of the Orthodox Church in Australia, His…

+ B A R T H O L O M E W BY GOD’S MERCY ARCHBISHOP OF CONSTANTINOPLE – NEW ROME AND ECUMENICAL PATRIARCH TO THE PLENITUDE OF THE CHURCH MAY THE GRACE AND PEACE OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST, TOGETHER WITH OUR PRAYER, BLESSING AND FORGIVENESS BE WITH ALL * * *…

Dearly Beloved Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Today, we reflect on one of the most profound passages in the Holy Gospel, the Parable of the Last Judgment; a vision, where Christ, seated on His glorious throne, separates the righteous from the siners, as a shepherd separates sheep from goats. In this moment, all the nations…

Bishop Policarp Morușcă, the first hierarch of Orthodox Romanians in North America, was commemorated Sunday at the Romanian Monastery of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross and St. Ephraim the New in Mono, Canada. The monastery’s abbot, Hieromonk Policarp Atenagora, officiated the memorial service after the Divine Liturgy. The service reflected that Romanians in the…

On February 25, 1958, the miraculous “Syriac” Icon of the Mother of God was brought to Ghighiu Monastery by Metropolitan Basil Samaha of Sergiopolis from the Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East. For 67 years, many faithful who have prayed before the icon at Ghighiu Monastery have testified to receiving swift aid, healing, and…

On Sunday, 23 February 2025, His Beatitude Pope and Patriarch Theodore II of Alexandria and All Africa presided over the first-ever Patriarchal Divine Liturgy in South Sudan. The service took place in the courtyard of the Chapel of St. Panteleimon, located within the polyclinic of Dr. Linderman. Concelebrating with His Beatitude was His Eminence Metropolitan…