The Greek government on Tuesday extended restrictive measures affecting places of worship in the country, in order to reduce exposure to the Covid-19 pandemic. The measures, such as social distancing indoors, a ceiling on the number of worshippers inside places of worship and those attending sacraments, as well as the use of masks, among…

  The Church today venerates the memory of Nikitas the Great Martyr. This Saint was of high birth among the Goths beyond the Danube. He was taken by the pagan ruler of the Goths, and after being tortured, he was burned to death for his confession of Christ. Today is also the feast day of…

  His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel Sunday stressed that the presence of the cross everywhere ‘reminds of God’s love for us.’ ‘Inside the church, the cross is located first in the altar, because it is Christ’s altar of sacrifice. Then we find it on top of the iconostasis. On top of the church, one or several…

Hollywood legend Mickey Rourke recently sat down for an interview with the Orthodoxia News Agency to discuss his role in the film, “Man of God,” on the life of the great 20th-century wonderworker St. Nektarios of Aegina, which is currently begin filmed in Greece, and miracles he has experienced in his own life. Rourke plays…

His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch, met with President of the Republic of Serbia, Mr. Aleksandar Vucic, on September 14, 2020. In an open conversation President Vucic informed the Patriarch about the negotiations on Kosovo and Metochia that had been held in Washington and Brussels at the beginning of the month, as well as about the…

The Fifth Festival of Christian Culture began on September 9, 2020, with the veneration of the icon of the Mother of God of Kolok and a Vesper service at the courtyard of the Cathedral church of the Nativity of the Most Holy Mother of God. Following the Vesper service, His Grace Bishop Ilarion of Timok…

Brothers and Sisters in the Lord, On the fourteenth of September, we celebrate the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. We remember this historic day when Saint Helen, mother of Emperor Saint Constantine the Great, located and identified the Precious and Life-giving Cross of our Lord and Savior. The cross was held aloft…

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His Holiness Patriarch Alexei II of Moscow and All Russia (+2008) served as a priest in the town of Jõhvi in his native Estonia from 1950 to 1957. And yesterday, September 14, the Orthodox faithful of Jõhvi rejoiced as “Alyoshenka has returned home.” The congregation of the Church of the Theophany celebrated both the 125th…