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Greece’s education ministry on Monday unveiled the framework of public health measures that will accompany the opening of schools in the country next month. Specifically, the use of masks by pupils and educators will be mandatory on school premises. At the same time, the ministry has still not announced whether the customary start-of-the-academic year blessing…

The Moscow Patriarchate’s finance and economic administration chairman, His Eminence Metropolitan Ignaty of Vologda and Kirillov, met this week with Alexey Emelyanov, the head of the Moscow department for cultural heritage, part of ongoing contacts within the framework of the “Culture of Moscow” program.

  A litany of the holy icon of the Theotokos, the Ever-Virgin Mary, was held at the Church of the Panagia Koumariotissa, in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople’s parish of Neochori, on the occasion of Sunday’s Apodosis of the Feast day of the Dormition — exactly nine days after the great feast day, known in…

  Citizens of the small Adriatic country of Montenegro head to the polls next Sunday for a general election, during a period plagued by the pandemic as well as the current Montenegro government’s systematic persecution against the Orthodox Church in that country, where Orthodoxy is the predominate and oldest faith in the land. In a…

Members of the permanent Holy Synod of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece will convene on Tuesday and Wednesday, the last session of the 163rd synodical period. The new ecclesiastical year begins on Sept. 1. This week’s session comes amid a crucial period for the Church of Greece, given the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, as well…

The Spanish daily El País has recently published a story about the Romanian port of Sulina, at the mouth of River Danube. The article names the city “The Kilometre Zero of a river which tells the story of Europe” and quotes the priest from the local Orthodox cathedral, the easternmost church in Romania. The story…

On Wednesday, July 22, the first parish church in the world dedicated to the newly-glorified St. Joseph the Hesychast was consecrated in Tbilisi, Georgia. The church is located within the complex of the Church of the Exaltation of the Precious Cross in the Saburalo section of the Georgian capital. The Liturgy and consecration were celebrated…

Minsk, August 24, Interfax – Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has warned clergymen against meddling in domestic politics. “I am surprised by the position of our religious denominations. My dear clergy, settle down and do your job. People are supposed to go churches to pray. Churches are not for politics,” Lukashenko said at a rally in…