On 23rd September 2020, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, met with H.E. Mr. Alexander Rudakov, newly appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Lebanese Republic. Prior to his appointment, Mr. Rudakov had held the post of Deputy Director of the Middle East…

The film, called “The Story of One Love”, is about the life of the large family of Archpriest Andrew Dziuba and his Presbytera Helen was made in the Volyn Diocese of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, reports Pravoslavna.volyn.ua. “The life of this family is amazing, because 14 children were born and are being brought up here. The…

On Tuesday, September 9/22, 2020, on the commemoration of the Theotokos parents, Joachim and Anna, the Holy and Righteous Ancestors of God, the Divine Liturgy was celebrated at their Holy Monastery, which is at the place where their house used to be, next to the Sheep’s Pool, according to the testimony of St. John Damascene,…

On the occasion of the dedication feast of the church, His Grace Bishop Gerasim of Gornji Karlovac, presided over the Holy Hierarchal Liturgy in the Church of the Nativity of the Most Holy Mother of God in Glina, on September 21, 2020. Protopresbyter-staurophore Milidrag Stokanovic, protopresbyter Mile Ristic, protopresbyter Sasa Umicevic, protopresbyter Jugoslav Maksimovic and…

* By Claus Grue and Xanthi Morfi Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens and All Greece offers reflections from an Orthodox perspective on the current plight of refugees, both in Greece and beyond, and how churches can help with both relief efforts and long-term wellbeing. What is your assessment of the current refugee crisis from a Christian…

The second part of the fourth Internet assembly of physicians and health care professionals with the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi, has been posted today on the pages of the Orthodoxia News Agency. The assembly was held on Saturday, Sept. 5. 

The historic St. Thecla chapel, located on the medieval walls that once protected Nicosia, the capital of the east Mediterranean island of Cyprus, will celebrate the saint’s feast day on Thursday. A great Divine Liturgy will take place in the afternoon.

The memory of the Panaghia Pantanassa, will again commemorated with venerable Mount Athos liturgical order at the St. Nicholas church in Porto Lagos, a glebe of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi in northeastern Greece. The holy services will be broadcast live by the Orthodoxia News Agency and the online magazine Pemptousia. An Orthros…

The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, this week received a letter by the president of the newly christened Republic of North Macedonia, Stevo Pendarovski, who appealed to the Patriarchate to recognize the autocephaly of the Orthodox Church in his small south Balkan country. According to media reports, Pendarovski’s letter to the…