A new children’s book on the life of St. Porphyrios Kafsokalivitis is ready for publication, an initiative by the Holy Metropolis of Lovets of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church.

Deputy Foreign Minister Costas Vlassis arrived on the semi-autonomous monastic community of Mount Athos on Friday, in order to attend a handover ceremony on Sunday, whereby new representatives of monasteries will assume the Holy Community’s administration. Vlassis was accompanied by Mount Athos’ civil governor, Athanasios Martinos. According to reports, among the monasteries that Vlassis will…

More instances of vandalism against churches and monuments were reported in Greece over the past week. A bust of St. Chrysostomos of Smyrma, in the Nikaia district of Piraeus, was vandalized by unknown perpetrators, causing anger and sadness amongst local residents. Another instance of vandalism was also reported on the eastern Aegean island of Lesvos,…

Members of the Episcopal Council of the Orthodox Church in Montenegro this week charged that recent developments in the small Adriatic country clearly point to the fact that the Montenegrin government has essentially terminated dialogue with the Church over a controversial law on religious institutions. According to the Orthodox Church in Montenegro, the specific law…

A US State Department official on Friday reiterated Washington’s belief in the protection of “complex multi-religious history” of Hagia Sophia, a UNESCO World Heritage site and the foremost cathedral of eastern Christendom for nearly a millennium before being converted into a “conquest mosque” after Constantinople fell to the Ottomans in 1453. Greece’s state-run news agency…

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The Archbishop of Australia, His Eminence Makarios, issued a statement on Friday on the occasion of World Day Against Child Labor, noting that “…our thoughts and attention turn to an extremely worrying and sad phenomenon that, unfortunately, continues to plague humanity even in the 21st century.” The annual June 12 commemoration aims to draw attention…

Prime Minister Duško Marković said this morning that he and President of Montenegro Milo Đukanović recently proposed to Metropolitan of Montenegro and the Littoral of the Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) Amfilohije (Radović) the suspension of the application of the Law on Freedom of Religion until the Constitutional Court and the European Court of Human Rights…

Archbishop Teodosie of Tomis on Monday ordained the renowned neurosurgeon Stefan Mindea to the priesthood at Vacarestii Noi Monastery in Constanta. The Archbishop of Tomis said that ‘science and faith have met’ in the person of the famous doctor ordained a priest for the church of Vacarestii Noi Monastery. Asked how he will reconcile medicine…