Thousands of Christians continue to abandon their homes in northern Iraq in the wake of air strikes by Turkey’s air force. Accoridng to the group International Christian Concern, since the beginning of Turkey’s airstrikes in northern Iraq, nine of the 11 Christian villages in the Zakho district have beenreportedly evacuated. An increasingly interventionist Ankara…

  The Patriarch of Serbia, His Holiness Irinej, in a homily after the Divine Liturgy on Sunday at the Russian Church of the Holy Trinity in Belgrade, emphasized that “… nothing is more threatened and persecuted in our days than the institution of the family.”  

  A memorandum of cooperation to draft a study for the preservation and promotion of the Holy Monastery of the Holy Trinity of Tzagarola, on the large island of Crete, was signed between representatives of Greece’s culture ministry, the regional government of Crete, the monastery and the Polytechnic of Crete. The budget for the study…

At the same time, the current High Representative of the European Union and Commission vice-president, Josep Borrell, commenced an official two-day visit to Turkey on Monday — with Ankara’s continuing provocations and sabre-rattling against EU members Greece and Cyprus high on the official’s talks with his Turkish hosts. Official Turkey is now also involved in…

  The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, over the weekend again expressed a wish that the Theological School of Halki again open its doors… “after 49 years of silence,” as the Patriarch sadly noted. His All Holiness spoke at the enthronement of Bishop Kassianos as the new Abbot of the Holy…

nation that is faithful to God and its fatherland will be miraculously blessed by God, His Eminence Metropolitan Daniel of Chiatura and Sachkhere of the Georgian Orthodox Church said during his Sunday sermon at the Holy Trinity Cathedral. A miracle was seen in Georgia, where there was no eruption of the coronavirus epidemic despite the…

“The Ecumenical Patriarchate has always been concerned to serve all Orthodox without distinction of nationality or ethnic origin,” writes Patriarch Bartholomew Late last year, Metropolitan Emmanuel of Gaul of the Patriarchate of Constantinople announced the creation of a vicariate of Russian parishes in France, and on Saturday, July 4, a constitutive general assembly of the…

I am deeply concerned over the calls of certain Turkish politicians to reconsider the museum status of Hagia Sophia, one of the greatest monuments of Christian culture. Built in the 6th century in honour of Christ the Saviour, this church is of great importance to the whole Orthodoxy. And it is especially dear to the…

Persecution of Christians in Iraq: Clearly the Turkish government is using its military actions against the Kurds to further its longstanding persecution of Christians, which includes the ongoing discrimination against of and harassment of the Ecumenical Patriarchate and the remaining Christians of Turkey; the occupation and ethnic cleansing of northern Cyprus; the long imprisonment of…