The Orthodox Observer sat down with the recently appointed Director of Youth and Young Adult Ministries for the Metropolis of Boston, Panos Coufos, about the Metropolis of Boston’s Fall Camp programming in 2020 amid Covid-19.  goarch.org

His Beatitude John X, Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, received Minister of Public works and Housing Mr. Suhail Mohammad Abdullatif at the Patriarchate in Damascus. استقبل غبطة البطريرك يوحنا العاشر سيادة المهندس سهيل عبد اللطيف، وزير الأشغال العامة والإسكان، في الدار البطريركية… Geplaatst door Antioch Patriarchate op Maandag 19 oktober 2020      …

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  The new online radio station Pemptousia.fm debuted today, Monday, featuring programs and content focused on Orthodoxy Christianity, the Church, pastoral care and spiritual guidance. You can listen live to the programs via the Pemptousia webpage or on the Youtube platform. Additionally, you download a specific application for your mobile phone or tablet.

  The first part of the seventh online Archontariki from Mount Athos with the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi, was posted today on the pages of the Orthodoxia news agency. The online assembly was held on Oct. 1. Archontariki, in Greek, refers to a monastery’s guesthouse.

  The Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, on Sunday officiated at the Divine Liturgy at the St. John of Rilas cathedral in the Sisli district, used serves the expatriate Bulgarian community in the Bosporus metropolis. The Divine Liturgy was celebrated on the eve of the Feast Day of St. John of…

  The Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, His Most Divine Beatitude Theodoros II, officiated at the Divine Liturgy of St. Mark, which was celebrated on Sunday at the monastery of St. George, within the so-called Babylon fortress of Cairo’s old quarter. The service was not held in the monastery’s catholicos, or main cathedral, but…

The Grand Mufti of the Caucasus, Allahshükür Pashazade, who holds a title that covers his native Azerbaijan, along with Georgia, and several Caucasus republics of the Russian Federation, offered Muslim prayers at the Hagia Sophia this week, the latest provocation against the greatest of all basilicas of eastern Christendom – three months after Islamist Turkish…

  The trial of Metropolitan of Corfu, Paxi and the Diapontian isles, His Eminence Nektarios, on two misdemeanor charges of allegedly violating public health restrictions, ones issued at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, commenced on Monday morning at a first instance court on Corfu. A local prosecutor took exception to the Metropolitan’s sermon on…