On 3rd September 2020, His Beatitude Theodoros II, Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, welcomed to the Patriarchal See the new Defense Attaché of the General Staff of the Greece Army in Cairo, Mr. Georgios Hatzis, accompanied by the Defense Attaché of Cyprus, Lieutenant Colonel Mr. Costas Fotiou, the Spanish MEP, Mrs. Joanne…

  On 3rd September 2020, Metropolitan Sergy of Singapore and Southeast Asia, Patriarchal Exarch of Southeast Asia, visited the Embassy of Singapore in Moscow, where he met with H.E. Mr. Premjith Sadasivan, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Singapore to the Russian Federation. Taking part in the meeting were also Bishop Pitirim of…

At the end of August, Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdogan celebrated the Islamic New Year with aplomb. Fresh off his conversion of the monumental Haghia Sophia to a mosque, he converted another former Byzantine church, the fourth-century Chora church, one of Istanbul’s oldest Byzantine structures. The day after that he announced the largest ever natural…

  With the Holy Hierarchal Liturgy, officiated by His Grace Jovan, Bishop of Pakrac-Slavonia, on Sunday, August 30, 2020, the days of prayerful celebration of the Holy New Martyrs of Jasenovac began. Talking about the Gospel parable and about the Holy Martyrs who suffered for Christ, the Rt. Reverend Bishop addressed the gathered with an…

Moscow, September 4, Interfax – Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia will elevate Bishop Veniamin of Minsk and Zaslavl, who has been elected the new exarch of All Belarus, to the rank of metropolitan on Sunday, the patriarchal press service said. Father Veniamin, most recently the bishop of Borisov and Maryina Gorka, will be…

  Archaeologists from the Moscow State University have discovered a 700-year-old treasure belonging to St. Theoktist, the early 14th-century Archbishop of Novgorod. The seal of the sainted Archbishop was unearthed at the Troitsky (Trinity) excavation site near the Veliky Novgorod Kremlin, representatives of the expedition reported to Interfax-Religion yesterday. Scholars have dated the find to…

The Serbian Orthodox Church in Montenegro believes that a recent series of attacks on churches and also Islamic sites is an attempt by the outgoing government to provoke discord and unrest. The opposition coalition took a majority of seats in the nation’s recent Parliamentary elections, marking the first time in 30 years that President Milo…

This webinar will focus on ecology and the role of ecumenical partners in taking action to preserve our common home. Join us on September 18 from 1:00-3:00 PM EDT for this important roundtable discussion. Panelists include: Rev. Dr. John Chryssavgis Archdeacon of the Ecumenical Patriarch, Kelly Brown Douglas Episcopal Divinity School at Union Theological Seminary,…

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