The Patriarch of Romania consecrated the new church of Izbuc Monastery in Bihor County on Saturday, September 20. At the end of the service, he explained the significance of the hymns chanted and compared any church dedicated to the Holy Trinity with a gate to heaven. We are called to enter it and become each…

His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel said on Sunday, at the consecration of the Diocesan Cathedral in Oradea, that churches are places where we learn the mystery of the Cross and the Resurrection. The cross plan of our churches also shapes the community of believers present in a cross facing the altar of Sacrifice and Resurrection, on…

This does not mean support, – locum tenens Shio said when asked by reporters about the attendance of clergymen on the Georgian Dream election event and whether it meant support for the ruling party. “It does not mean support. Support is a verbal statement, a call for support,” locum tenens Shio told reporters. Source

On Monday, 21 September 2020, Metropolitan Vladimir of Chisinau and all Moldova celebrated the Feast of the Nativity of the Theotokos at the Metropolitan Cathedral in Chisinau. Archpriest Vadim Cheibas, the Cathedral Dean, and the clergy of the holy shrine assisted the arch-pastor during the service. The Feast of the Nativity of the Most Pure…

Politicians have remained silent over the art teacher whose paintings have caused controversy because they do not want to lose votes, Archbishop Chrysostomos said on Sunday. Speaking after leading the service at a church in Paphos, he also said the education ministry should take the matter more seriously as the man in question has “no…

The first part of the fourth Internet assembly of physicians and healthcare professionals with the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi, has been posted today on the pages of the Orthodoxia Νews Αgency. The assembly was held on Saturday, Sept. 5. 

The US ambassador in Serbia, Anthony Godfrey, this week visited the historic Mileševa monastery, where he was received and given a guide tour by the Bishop of Mileševa, his Grace Athanasije. The monastery, one of the most significant spiritual centers in Serbia, was founded in the 13th century.      

Media reports in Turkey and Greece this week claimed that the increasingly bellicose Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has taken exception to 15-meter Cross erected a little more than two kilometers from the Greek-Turkish land border in the Evros prefecture, and on a spot outside the Holy Monastery of St, Paraskevi, in the Nea Vyssa…

Greece’s culture minister, Lina Mendoni, continued a tour of several Dodecanese islands in the southeast Aegean, visiting historic cathedrals, monasteries and other monuments. Better promoting Orthodox and the Hellenic heritage of the Aegean islands – which have been at the epicenter of Greek civilization for millennia – has recently come to the forefront, amid unprecedented…