4th October 2020, the 17th Sunday after Pentecost: Metropolitan Vladimir of Chisinau and all Moldova celebrated the Divine Liturgy in the Nativity of the Lord Cathedral in Chisinau. The Sunday Gospel Reading (Matt. 15: 21-28) speaks about the healing of the Canaanite woman by our Lord Jesus Christ. The dialogue between the Lord and this…

All my life I have been serving the Church of Georgia, I am grateful to God for this mission, – the Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia, His Holiness and Beatitude Ilia II said at the award ceremony at the Patriarchate. As the Patriarch noted, the main goal of his activity is the unity of the Georgian…

“Your prayers have great power. Today, when our two brotherly countries are at war and the blood of our brothers is shed on the Holy Land of the Caucasus, I believe your prayers for peace will save us and bring peace”, – Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili told Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia Ilia II at the…

A third international conference entitled “Church and Medicine: effective answers to contemporary challenges”, was hosted via tele-conference this week from St. Petersburg, Russia by the Society of Orthodox Physicians – St. Luke the Surgeon. Participants from around the world participated, including physicians of various specialties, scientists and clergymen.   Archive Photo

The head of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Montenegro, His Eminence, Metropolitan Amphilochios, has been hospitalized after testing positive for the coronavirus, a Church statement announced this week. The 82-year-old Metropolitan of Montenegro and the Littoral is being treated in a Podgorica hospital. He spent the last few days in home isolation and under constant…

The Archbishop of America, His Eminence Elpidophoros, on Thursday gave the keynote address at the Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops of the United States, via a video conference. Among others, His Eminence noted that “… this year has been perhaps the most challenging of our collective arch-pastorates, and our Merciful God has strengthened our resolve…

Provocations by the Erdogan regime in Turkey against that country’s neighbors and even Christianity as whole continued unabated this week, with the latest threat targeting the eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus. Islamist Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the so-called prime minister of the pseudo-state set up in the Turkish-occupied areas of Cyprus said the…

The Church today venerates the memory of Sergius and Bacchus, the Great Martyrs of Syria. These holy Martyrs were Romans of high rank in the service of the Emperor Maximian, to whom it was reported that they refused to take part in pagan festivals. When the emperor called them into his presence, they confessed their…

  The great Romanian theologian of the 20th century has now a museum in the heart of Bucharest, near kilometre zero. The museum dedicated to Father Stăniloae was set up by the Old St George Parish and is located on the ground floor of the parish house in the courtyard of the place of worship….