Moscow, August 21, Interfax – The Belarusian Orthodox Church called on the clergy to refrain from participating in political life and urged its flock not to follow provocations amid the events taking place in the country. “We are again reminding the clergymen about the promise they gave before God not to participate in the political…

The Russian Orthodox Church’s Synodal Department for Church Charity and Social Service has transferred $5,385 (400,000 rubles) to the Social Department of the Bishkek Diocese in Kyrgyzstan for food aid to those in need. The funds were collected via the departmental Miloserdie.ru website, and were used to purchase 5 tons of food. 500 500 packages…

With the blessings of His Grace Bishop Silvester Kisitu, delegates from the Diocese attended a conference on Education ( plan for the re – opening of schools within Covid 19 circumstances ) organised by Uganda Joint Christian Council from 18th Aug up to 20 Aug 2020 at Jevin Hotel Lubaga Kampala .The delegates shared variuos…

  Chora Monastery conversion I was deeply saddened to learn of the decision of the Turkish authorities to convert the historic Chora Monastery in Constantinople into an Islamic mosque. It is a decision that intensifies our frustration and concern, given the recent desecration of the Church of Hagia Sophia, which is the universal symbol of…

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On 20th August 2020, His Holiness Serbian Patriarch Irinej and the President of the Republic of Serbia, Mr Aleksandar Vucic, visited the Orthodox Cathedral of Saint Sava in order to get informed of the progress of works on Cathedral interior. The works on the interior of the Orthodox Cathedral of Saint Sava should be completed…

  A new monastic brotherhood is actively being formed in Virginia under His Eminence Metropolitan Jonah, the former primate of the Orthodox Church in America and currently a hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia. Currently numbering three monks, the brotherhood of the St. Demetrios of Thessaloniki Skete is renting a small space…

  Every year, around the new calendar feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord on August 6, mysterious snakes appear in the villages of Markopoulo and Agrinia on the western Greek island of Kefalonia, where there are chapels dedicated to the Dormition of the Theotokos, remaining until the feast on August 15. Normally, hundreds and…

Under the fog of war during World War 1, the Genocide of the Greeks was carried out at the hands of the Ottoman and Nationalist Turks. 3,000 years of history, destroyed and almost erased in only 10 years, 1913-1923. “Lethal Nationalism” explores this dark chapter of history with, survivor interviews, historic film footage, informative graphics…