On 24th September 2020, an international online conference on “Religion in Changing World. Role of Education in Upbringing of Youth” took place on the platform of the TASS press centre in Moscow, bringing together eighty participants from twenty countries. Among those who took part in the forum were religious leaders, statesmen, journalists and experts. With…

His Grace Bishop Teodosije of Raška and Prizren of the Serbian Orthodox Church published an appeal yesterday to his flock in Kosovo and Metohije, imploring them not to leave their homes, thereby abandoning their holy churches, monasteries, and cemeteries as well. The Orthodox faithful of Kosovo live under the constant threat of persecution and attacks…

The Moscow Patriarchate supports the initiative of public activists to install a monument to pregnant women in Moscow, and is calling on them to extend the project to other cities and regions, given the difficult demographic situation in Russia. The head of the Save Life charity project for women in crisis pregnancies, Ekaterina Markova, earlier…

On September 24, 2020, on the feast of St. Silouan the Athonite, His Eminence Metropolitan Andrei of Cluj, Maramureș, and Sălaj laid the foundation stone for a new church and blessed the site of a future orphanage under the patronage of the great 20th-century Athonite elder. The future orphanage in Dorzea in the Transylvanian county…

Nearly five years after its foundation tone was laid, the Agia Sophia Cathedral in Warsaw was festively consecrated on the eve of the feast of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos. The new cathedral, based on the iconic Agia Sophia Cathedral in Istanbul, is the first Orthodox church to be built in Warsaw in…

His Beatitude John X, Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, has appointed the Right Reverend Archimandrite Jack Khalil as Dean of the Saint John of Damascus Institute of Theology at the University of Balamand, in succession to the Very Reverend Father Porphyrios Georgi. Source

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On Wednesday, September 30, 2020, the Romanian Orthodox Church marks the His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel’s 13th enthronement anniversary. On this occasion, at 9.00 a.m., the Divine Liturgy will be celebrated at the Patriarchal Cathedral. At 11.00 a.m. a Te Deum service will be officiated as wholehearted thanksgiving to God for the benefactions over the life…

The life of Gloria Buzau’s midfielder who proves that sport and faith do not make a discordant note became the story of Digisport, one of Romania’s most-read sports website. Attached to the values of the Orthodox Church, Iulian Roşu did not refrain from confessing his religious conviction. “There is absolutely nothing you can do without…