The Holy Archdiocese of Australia, our Shepherd, His Eminence Archbishop Makarios, the God-loving Bishops and all the benevolent clergy, with pain of soul, pray for the divine consolation and strengthening of all our sisters and brothers, who are profoundly being tested with the loss of their loved ones due to the coronavirus pandemic and…

Third part of the 3rd online assembly from Mount Athos, with the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi, with children and young people, was posted today on the pages of the Orthodoxia news agency. The assembly took place last Aug. 22.

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…