The Archdiocese of Great Britain and Thyateira is continuing to offer online adult English-language religious study. The fifth module, similar to the previous two, was conducted online. In Belgium, the Greek Orthodox Metropolis announced that due to the pandemic and restrictive measures in place, it will postpone an annual gathering of youth and clergy for…

The Moscow Patriarchate’s chairman of the Department of External Church Relations, His Eminence Hilarion, told the faithful by teleconference this week that the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church will decide how this year’s Easter services will be conducted, in relation to the Covid-19 crisis, and always in cooperation with state authorities. His Eminence…

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Thursday underlined that there was no greater salvation of the homeland than for the salvation of its citizens, in a televised address on the first 30 days of the coronavirus pandemic. Mitsotakis again called on Greek citizens to follow public health guidelines and restrictions, saying the situation in Greece…

Metropolises around Greece continue stepped up efforts to aid those in need amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and the strict restrictions in place in the east Mediterranean country against non-essential movement in public. The Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece, along with individual Metropolises around the country, continues to hold blood drives, to deliver meals door-to-door…

The Church today also venerates the memory of Joseph the hymnographer. St. Joseph was born in Sicily in the ninth century. He endured slavery earlier in his life after being abducted by Moslem pirates operating from Crete. After returning to Constantinople, he lived and worked with pious zeal for the rest of his life, becoming…

Today marks the 5th Friday of Great Lent, where the 24 “oikoi”, or stanzas, each one beginning with the next letter of the alphabet, which comprise the Akathyst Hymn – a kontakion, a hymn of Orthodoxy in honor of the All-Holy Theotokos, the Virgin Virgin, will be chanted. Akathyst or Akathistos means standing in Greek,…

Another clergyman has been infected with coronavirus. The bishop of the eparchy of North America, Saba Intskirveli, said the above in a video message posted on social network. According to him, the infected person is Spiridon Narsia, who serves in New York. “I would like to tell you the sad news that the second clergyman…

The rule of communion is a canonical and traditional issue that can be changed, but only by the supreme hierarchy of the church, Archpriest Theodore Gignadze told InterPressNews. “Generally, canonical and traditional issues can be changed. It has always been so inside the church. The only thing that cannot be changed is that God is the…

Andria Jaghmaidze, Head of Press Center of Georgian Patriarchate said that heads of churches will be given 3 recommendations today. “You are given three recommendations: The patriarch’s blessing is that, considering the curfew, prayers will begin tomorrow at 4.00 pm and the church will be closed at 8 pm every day. As a reminder, it…