To His All-Holiness BARTHOLOMEW, Archbishop of Constantinople – New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch Your All–Holiness! I wish with this letter to attest to you, my beloved brother and concelebrant in the Lord, of my personal support and that of the fullness of our autocephalous Orthodox Church of Ukraine during these days of difficult challenges for the…

US President Donald Trump expressed his strong dissatisfaction with the decision of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to turn Hagia Sophia into a mosque, in the presence of the Archbishop Elpidophoros of America, with whom he met. After the scheduled 30-minute meeting on Thursday that Archbishop Elpidophoros, the head of the Orthodox Archdiocese of America,…

An illustrated edition dedicated to the Christian family was unveiled this week by the Romanian Patriarchate’s publishing house, Basilica, as 2020 has been declared by the Romanian Church as the Year of Pastoral Care for Parents and Children. The edition’s prologue is written by the Patriarch of All Romania, His Beatitude Daniel.    

The Metropolitanate of Montenegro and the Littoral, again bemoaned what it called efforts by the government in the small Adriatic country to sabotage dialogue over a controversial law on religious institutions, which was passed by the latter. The latest provocation by the Montenegro government was a claim that the Church pays no taxes, and that…

The Committee of the Representatives of the Orthodox Churches to the European Institutions (CROCEU) expressed its deep regret concerning Turkey’s unprecedented violation of the UNESCO rules by changing the status of Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia from a museum into a mosque. CROCEU has issued a statement in which it says the action violates historical memory and…

he Holy Synod of the Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia issued a statement on Monday regarding Turkey’s lamentable decision to convert the Agia Sophia Cathedral into a mosque again, noting that the news has filled the Orthodox faithful of the Czech Republic and Slovakia with grief. The whole world welcomed the gesture of…

  TO ALL CLERGY AND MONASTICS; TO ALL CHURCH-SCHOOL CONGREGATION EXECUTIVE BOARDS; TO ALL MISSION PARISH COUNCILS AND MONASTERY ADMINISTRATIONS; TO ALL MEMBERS OF THE DIOCESAN COUNCIL; TO THE FEDERATION OF THE CIRCLES OF SERBIAN SISTERS: and TO ALL FAITHFUL OF THE HOLY DIOCESE OF EASTERN AMERICA Beloved Clergy, Monastics and Faithful, His Holiness IRINEJ,…

  New York, NY – Today, His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros met with President Trump and Vice President Mike Pence at the White House on the concerns of the Ecumenical Patriarchate and the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese over the seizure and re-conversion of the Hagia Sophia into a mosque. Following the meeting with the President and Vice…

SYDNEY 24-07-2020 We are not politicians but pastors, sent by Jesus Christ to proclaim his peace to everyone. Therefore, as brothers in Christ, we join our voices to the many around the world who have expressed deep regret at the recent decision in Turkey to change the status of Hagia Sophia/Aya Sofya, originally a place…