On Thursday, October 22, His Holiness Patriarch Irinej of Serbia and Serbian President Aleksandr Vučić visited St. Sava’s Cathedral in Belgrade to examine the newly-revealed mosaics. Last month, OrthoChristian reported that work on the cathedral’s unique and beautiful mosaics was completed. Now that most of the scaffolding in the church has been removed, the images…

During his sermon on Tuesday, Patriarch Daniel referred to two aspects of God’s presence and work in the world through Saint Demetrios the New: on the one hand, the delicacy and the miraculous help offered to the believers, on the other hand, the ‘bitter medicine’ administered to people for correction. The Patriarch of Romania highlighted…

At the all-night vigil service held in honour of St. Demetrios the Myrrh-gusher, a great martyr of the 4th century, the Patriarchal Auxiliary Bishop Varlaam of Ploieşti spoke about the current persecutions against Christians and stressed that Christianity is the most persecuted religion in the world. “Usually when we talk about persecution we refer to…

On October 1, residents of the Dagoretti Corner settlement in Nairobi, Kenya, were evicted from their homes by the Kenya Railways Corporation and the Kenya Power & Lighting Company government agencies, despite the presidential moratorium on evictions during the COVID-19 pandemic. The eviction left more than 3,000 people homeless, reports Amnesty International. After the eviction,…

A tourist-cultural route of wooden churches in Romania was officially launched on Tuesday at an event dedicated to the protection and cultural valorization of the historical monument of the wooden church in Valea Crișului, Bihor County. The event was attended by representatives of the local public administrations registered in the cultural route and the the…

Prot. No. 187/2020 October 28, 2020 The Commemoration of OXI Day Τὴν Σκέπην σου, Παρθένε, οἱ πιστοὶ μεγαλύνομεν…. (Ἀπολυτίκιον τῇ 28ῃ Ὀκτωβρίου, Τῶν Νικητηρίων) Your Protection, O Virgin, do we the faithful magnify…. (Apolytikion for October 28th, the Feast of Victory) To the Most Reverend Hierarchs, the Reverend Priests and Deacons, the Monks and Nuns,…

St. Nicholas October 2020 Monthly Update   Dear Friends of our National Shrine, As the Archbishop noted in his remarks, in this sprint to the finish line to complete the Saint Nicholas Church and National Shrine, we are now moving to finalizing the iconographic program for the interior of the Shrine. As you will see…

St. Nicholas October 2020 Monthly Update My Beloved Brothers and Sisters in Christ, I have good news to share with you! Thanks to the efforts of the Friends of St. Nicholas, and the cooperative work of our Archdiocese’s leading expert in Byzantine Iconography, Bishop Joachim of Amissos, and the renown iconographer, Father Loukas of the…

The anniversary of “OXI Day,” the day in October of 1940 when the Greek people refused to bow to the Italian request to conquer the nation, is always a cause of celebration throughout the world where Hellenism has set root. For an Orthodox priest in faraway Uganda, OXI Day symbolizes the struggle of the weak…