Yet another example where Orthodoxy unites, when war divides, was reported from far-off Iceland. A joint prayer service was held this week before an icon of Our Most Holy Lady Theotokos, the Ever-Virgin Mary, at the St. Nicholas Orthodox cathedral in Reykjavik, bringing together Orthodox faithful who make Iceland their home, along with émigrés from…

A category 4 crisis level was declared this week for the northern prefecture of Kozani over the next 14 days, due to a significant spike in the number of confirmed coronavirus infections in the area. Based on a previous decision by the permanent Holy Synod of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece, restrictions to be…

The Metropolitan of Italy, Gennadios, reposed in the Lord on Friday morning. Born Tsabikos Zervos in July 1937, he completed primary school in the town of Kremasti and then continued his studies at the Patmiada Ecclesiastical School. The reposed Metropolitan Gennadios was a graduate of the Ecumenical Patriarchate’s Holy Theological School of Halki. He was…

The Church today venerates the memory of Longinus the Centurion, along with the Two Soldiers martyred with him. This Martyr served under Pontius Pilate at the time of Christ, our Saviour’s Passion. While standing guard at the Cross and beholding the earthquake and all that came to pass, he cried out with fear, “Truly this…

Supplicatory prayers were sung at the venerated copy of the Vladimir Icon of the Most Holy Mother of God for a speedy peaceful solution of the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh at the chapel of the St. Nicholas stauropegial parish of the Moscow Patriarchate in Reykjavik in the evening of October 9, 2020. The prayer service was…

The church where St. Basil of Ostrog, one of the most venerated saints in the Serbian Orthodox Church and throughout the Balkans, has been repeatedly robbed in recent times. According to the parish council chairman, Rade Boskovi, the robbery that occurred over the weekend at St. Nicholas Church in Mrkonjić, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina,…

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky is visiting the Ecumenical Patriarchate, where he and representatives of the Ukrainian community in Turkey has taken part in a joint prayer for Ukraine in the Patriarchal Church of St George. As an Ukrinform correspondent reports from Turkey, the President of Ukraine began his meeting with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew at…

You are invited to participate in the “1st Digital Fellowship with Elder Ephraim, Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Vatopedi Mount Athos and the Orthodox Christian Network OCN“, which will take place Wednesday Dec 11, 2020 08:00 PM Athens time (1:00pm EST). Join us by registering in advance for this meeting by clicking on the…

Patriarch Daniel on Thursday blessed a processional reliquary containing a fragment of the relics of St Paisios of Neamț, saying that the Saint founded a school of spirituality useful for the whole Orthodoxy. St. Paisios of Neamț (Velichkovsky) organized and guided monastic communities at Dragomirna, Secu and Neamț monasteries in Romania. He translated the Philokalia…