A large portion of the infamous Moria “hotspot” on the eastern Aegean island of Lesvos was burned to the ground in the early morning hours of Wednesday, with thousands of would-be asylum seekers and irregular migrants hosted there left without shelter. The island has borne the brunt of the migration crisis Greece since 2015, when…

The Church today venerates the memory of the Holy and Righteous Ancestors of God, Joachim and Anna. The celebration of the synaxis of Sts Joachim and Anna honours them as the parents of the most Holy Theotokos – a day after the commemoration of the Virgin Mary’s Nativity.

On Sunday, September 6, a monument to the father of monasticism, St. Anthony the Great, was unveiled in the Voskresny Deanery of the Nizhny Novogorod Diocese, next to a church dedicated in his honor. The ceremony was attended by His Eminence Metropolitan George of Nizhny Novgorod, Archpriest Boris Makarenko of the Church of St. Anthony…

His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch received His Excellency Mohammed Nabhan, the Ambassador of the State of Palestine to the Republic of Serbia at the Serbian Patriarchate in Belgrade on 8 September 2020.     spc.rs

On September 8, 2020, a videoconference was held between Metropolitan Sergiy of Singapore and South-East Asia, Patriarchate Exarch for South-East Asia, and Dr. Vivian Balakrishnan, minister for foreign affairs of the Republic of Singapore. During the talk, which was held in a warm atmosphere, the sides discussed the construction of a Russian cultural center and…

  On September 8, 2020, Archbishop Theophanes of Korea met with Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Lee Sok-bae of the Republic of Korea to the Russian Federation. They discussed a wide range of issues concerning the Russian-Korean humanitarian cooperation. Archbishop Theophanes introduced the diplomat to the work of the Russian Orthodox Diocese of Korea. Participating in…

His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch has said today that the only agreement that the Serbian Orthodox Church accepts is the one in which Kosovo is part of Serbia. “That is absolutely the position of the Church, and nothing has changed there. We will still see in which direction the negotiations between the Serbian and Albanian…

  His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch, celebrated the Holy Hierarchal Liturgy in the church of Saint Athanasius the Great in the suburb of Zemun, Plavi Horizonti, on 6 September 2020. The Patriarch was concelebrated by protopresbyter-staurophor Bozo Bakajlic, Diocesan dean of Zemun-New Belgrade; presbyter AndjelkoDoder, principal of the church; archdeacon Stevan Rapajic and deacon Radomir…

His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch received His Royal Highness Crown Prince Aleksandar and Princess Katherine Karadjordjevic at the Serbian Patriarchate in Belgrade on 8 September 2020.     spc.rs