The Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, His Holiness Kirill, remained in quarantine on Wednesday, after coming into a contact a confirmed Covid-19 infection, a spokesman for the Moscow Patriarchate announced. The latter added that His Holiness is well in his health and continues to work regularly.

An emblematic depiction of the Panaghia, the Virgin Mary, has been expertly painted on the rock formation above the harbor of Kastellorizo, the small Greek isle in the extreme southeastern Aegean. The image of the Panaghia, complete with a written blessing, comes after a recent provocation, whereby unknown suspects threw red paint on the surface…

Intense political reactions erupted in predominately Muslim Turkey this week after Democratic presidential nominee and former US vice-president Joe Biden called on the Trump administration to press that country’s leadership to stop its threats against Greece. In a statement to the National Herald newspaper, Biden also underlined that Turkey needs to reverse a decision that…

The Church today venerates the memory of Pelagia the Righteous. This saint was a prominent actress in the ancient city of Antioch, and a pagan. Once instructed and baptized in the faith, however, she departed for the Mount of Olives, where she lived as a recluse, feigning to be a eunuch called Pelagia. She lived…

His Beatitude Metropolitan Tikhon of Washington of the Orthodox Church in America is requesting prayers, as His Eminence Archbishop David of Sitka and Alaska of the Orthodox Church in America has been diagnosed with cancer. On October 5, Abp. David informed his diocese: “I have been diagnosed with renal cancer and will be receiving care…

A meeting was held today at the headquarters of the Middle East Council of Churches (MECC) in the presence of the MECC team with the Honorary Secretary General, Dr. Souraya Bechealany and the Tearfund committee director of Lebanon, Jordan and Yemen Karen Soerensen along with the regional director of the Middle East, Martin Leacm. The…

With the aim of spreading health education among the largest possible number of society members, the Middle East Council of Churches (MECC) organized a training session about health awareness, in which twenty women participated in Damascus and Rural Damascus. During the six days training, the participants learned about the most viral diseases in society, their…

On Wednesday, September 24/ October 7, 2020, the Patriarchate celebrated the commemoration of the Holy First Martyr Thecla, the Equal to the Apostles, at the Holy Chapel dedicated to her, inside the Central Monastery of the Hagiotaphite Brotherhood, on the west side of the Monastic Church of Saints Constantine and Helen. On this feast, the…

An article by Heba Hrimat She’s widely celebrated and equally venerated and respected among the different churches of the world including the Orthodox, the Catholic and the Coptic. Saint Thecla whom we venerate today (September 24/October 7) is an apostle and a protomartyr among women who’s equal-to-apostles in sanctity. In the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of…