On Sunday, September 27, 2020, His Grace Bishop Ioan Casian was present among the faithful of St. Dimitrie and the Holy Three Hierarchs Parish of Toronto. The event was occasioned by the consecration of the new iconostasis of the parish chapel. The hierarch was greeted by the faithful with bread and salt. After the consecration…

A huge cross 20 meters high and 12 meters wide was erected in northern Kosovo on Thursday, October 1st, 2020, on a hill at an altitude of 905 meters. The Holy Cross is the largest in the Serbian province of Kosovo and was funded by Serbs. The idea came from residents of the Leposavic municipality….

On Sunday 27 September 2020 Fr John Sullivan became the first convert in WA to be officially appointed as parish priest to the Church of Saint Nicholas in Bunbury, a coastal city located approximately 175 kilometres south of Perth. The occasion was marked with Hierarchical Matins and Divine Liturgy presided by His Grace Bishop Elpidios…

A MESSAGE FROM THE ARCHDIOCESE OF THYATEIRA AND GREAT BRITAIN ON THE OCCASION OF THE 60th ANNIVERSARY OF THE FOUNDATION OF THE DEMOCRACY OF CYPRUS This year marks sixty years since the establishment of the Democracy of Cyprus, which followed the end of the Cypriot struggle for independence.  It is justified, then, that all Cypriots wherever…

On October 2, 2020, His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America visited two Greek-American Parochial Schools to visit the students and personally see the health and safety measures that have been put in place. He was welcomed warmly at the William Spyropoulos Greek-American Day School and the Greek American Institute Of New York by Faculty, Staff…

On October 1, 2020, the Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova issued the following statement regarding how the situation around the former Hagia Sophia cathedral and museum being converted into a mosque open for worship is evolving. The statement reads: “Russia continues to watch closely how the situation around the former Hagia Sophia cathedral and…

Due to the current circumstances related to the epidemic in our country, Tbilisi Theological Academy and Seminary has started its 2020-2021 academic year by distance learning. The Academy and Seminary has done preliminary preparatory work relevant for this mode of teaching. A group of the teachers of this educational institution took a course of training…

Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia asks the State Duma speaker Vyacheslav Volodin to organize a broad public discussion of legislative amendments regulating the removal of children from the family when their life and health are threatened. “The problem of unjustified removal of children from their parents is very serious. The Russian Orthodox Church…

On 28th – 29th September 2020, the 6th International Research to Practice Conference on Orthodoxy in the Far East was held in St. Petersburg. It was organized by the St. Petersburg Theological Academy, the Faculty of Asian and African Studies of the St. Petersburg State University, and the National Library of Russia, with the support of the Pallady…