Montenegro prime minister-in-waiting Zdravko Krivokapic, the leader of the “For the Future of Montenegro” bloc, this week told reporters that he only entered politics in 2020 amid the furor over a controversial law that forces the Orthodox Church in the country to prove ownership of its assets and relics. The law, passed in 2019, is…

  The Metropolitan and Russian Orthodox Exarch of Singapore and South-East Asia, His Eminence Sergius, this week held a video-conference with Singapore’s Foreign Minister, Vivian Balakrishnan, with talks revolving around the establishment of a Russian cultural center and Russian Orthodox Church on the island state.   

The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All-Holiness Bartholomew I, on Wednesday sent his virtual greetings to the Archdiocese of America’s 45th Clergy-Laity congress, as it commenced its work for the first time in a virtual setting. His All-Holiness greeted the more than 1,100 delegates, in part, with the following exhortation. “…As we convey the commendation of…

Amid the continuing provocations, war-mongering and belligerence on the part of the Islamist Erdogan government of Turkey throughout the Near East, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis reiterated his call for the European Union to impose ‘meaningful’, as he said, sanctions on Turkey — unless Ankara pulls its military assets from maritime regions in the eastern…

    The Church today venerates the memory of Menodora, Metrodora and Nymphodora, the Martyrs. This trio of sisters contested for the faith during the reign of Emperor Maximian, in the year 304.

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“From September 10, anniversaries, weddings, funeral ceremonies and other social events will be banned,” Natia Mezvrishvili, the head of the government administration, stated after the meeting of the Interagency Coordination Council. “Social events, such as anniversaries, weddings, funeral ceremonies and other rituals will be banned due to the epidemiological situation. This restriction was already in…

A rare graffiti of the 12th century, depicting a man with a fantastic animal and a fragment of text, was discovered by archaeologists in one of the oldest churches of the pre-Mongol period: the Transfiguration Cathedral in Pereslavl-Zalessky. Members of the Architectural and Archaeological Detachment of the Institute of Archeology of the Russian Academy of…

A wildfire broke out in Neos Voutzas, northeastern Attica on Thursday morning. According to the initial information, the blaze is burning near the monastery of Pantokratoras but the fire brigade considers that it does not pose a threat to inhabited areas at this time. Ten fire engines with a crew of 31 fire men, assisted…