Romanian actor Florin Piersic told Doxologia.ro last Saturday how Saint Paraskeva of Iași miraculously healed him when he was a child, for his mother’s fervent prayers. The actor disclosed how attached he felt to the Church, his mother Vera being a priest’s sister. The actor confessed he spent his childhood in an environment where the…

The Romanian Patriarchate’s Spokesperson Vasile Bănescu commented on the decision to ban this year’s pilgrimage from Bucharest, on the patronal feast of the Patriarchal Cathedral. The spokesman reminded that the pilgrimage is a manifestation of religious freedom and that pilgrims and the Romanian Orthodox Church deserve more respect and trust from the authorities. “The rigorously…

On October 13, 2020, a working meeting took place between Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate Department for External Church Relations (DECR), and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to the Russian Federation Ms. Deborah Jane Bronnert, at the DECR. They were joined in…

The final version of the Greek language-learning platform “StaEllinika” was presented on Tuesday by the Secretary General for Public Diplomacy & Greeks Abroad of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ioannis Chrysoulakis. The platform was first launched as a beta version in April 2020 at schools in California, Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey under the…

On Oct. 13, 2020, His Grace Bishop Silvester met for the second time with the clergy of the Eastern region of the diocese to tackle spiritual and Liturgical matters. During the meeting, the priests in joy together with His Grace, welcomed His Eminence Metropolitan Ieronymos of Mwanza who had passed over at Holy Resurrection Cathedral…

On Oct. 14, 2020, in a bright atmosphere, the Monastery of St.Paraskevi in Busaana celebrated its feast with the presence and blessing of three Hierarchs, Metropolitan Innocent of Burundi and Rwanda who officiated the Holy Liturgy together with Bishop Silvester of Gulu and Eastern Uganda, and the Metropolitan of Kampala Jonah who humbly prayed with…

A new online radio station Pemptousia.fm will debut on Oct. 19, featuring programs and content focused on Orthodoxy Christianity, the Church, pastoral care and spiritual guidance. 

His Eminence the Archbishop of America Elpidophoros on Wednesday received Metropolitan Evangelos of Sardes, and congratulated him on his election to the historic Metropolis of the All-Venerable Ecumenical Throne. During a fraternal and cordial meeting, the two hierarchs discussed the practical issues of transmission and reception of the Holy Metropolis of New Jersey, while the…

A video of the an address by 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, on the occasion of the feast day of the Nativity of the Theotokos, the Virgin Mary.