A Syriac Bible written on gazelle skin, which was stolen after the looting of a museum in Aleppo, was found back by Turkish police in Gaziantep. Turkish newschannel NTV, says the discovery of the Bible was announced in a written statement by the Provincial Police Department after Anti-Smuggling and Organised Crime forces recovered the Syriac Bible…

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The third part of the seventh online Archontariki from Mount Athos with the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi, was posted today on the pages of the online magazine Pemptousia. The online assembly was held on Oct. 1. 

The Russian Orthodox Church’s Metropolitan of Volokolamsk, His Eminence Hilarion, continued his visit to Syria. Hilarion, who is also the head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external Church relations, visited the chapel of the Prophet Elijah, which is located within a Russian military base in the country, where he spoke with Russian servicemen about…

Poland’s highest court this week ruled that abortions in cases of fetal defects are unconstitutional. One of the institutions that had pressed for the high decision was the Orthodox Church of Poland and its primate, the Metropolitan of Warsaw and All Poland, His Eminence Sava.

A Divine Liturgy on the feast day of St. James was held at the cathedral of Axion Estin, in the inner Melbourne suburb of Northcote, in Australia.  

The Archbishop of America, His Eminence Elpidophoros, on Thursday announced the creation of a special advisory body, called “Senators for Orthodoxy and Hellenism.” The new body is comprised of members able to bring both mentorship for new generations. The aim of this Senate will be to advise the Archbishop, the Holy Eparchial Synod and the…

The Patriarch of Serbia, His Holiness Irinej, on Thursday accompanied the country’s president, Aleksander Vucic, on a tour of the under renovation cathedral of St. Sawa in Belgrade. The Serbian president later took to social media to express his admiration for the works undertaken at the metropolitan cathedral.     Δείτε αυτή τη δημοσίευση στο…

The Greek government on Thursday stiffened measures against spread of the coronavirus outbreak, on a day that saw a record single-day number of confirmed instances, at 882, and with the biggest group of newly infected people being young adults. In a nationally television address, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced a curfew a half hour…