This year’s Dormition holiday may require people’s social distancing, but they are nevertheless “more united than ever,” Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Saturday from Crete, where he is observing the major Greek holiday. Mitsotakis reminded the public of following protective measures including wearing face masks, avoiding crowds and following doctors’ directions. In his holiday…

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It was with evident joy that His Grace Bishop Silouan of Sinope joined a large congregation of faithful in the recently built church of Sts Raphael, Nicholas and Irene in Athelstone, Adelaide, for the service of the Great Paraklesis in the afternoon of Sunday 9 August. The numerous priests and faithful were blessed by the…

His Holiness Irinej, Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church, visited the Cathedral of the Dormition of the Most Holy Mother of God in Kragujevac on August 13, 2020. The faithful people and the clergy of the city of Kragujevac, with their hierarch, His Grace Bishop Jovan of Sumadija, warmly greeted the Head of the Serbian…

At the invitation of His Grace Vasilije, Bishop of Srem, Vasilije, His Holiness Patriarch Irinej visited Sremski Karlovci on August 11, 2020. The renovation of the facades of the Cathedral and the Patriarchal Palace has been underway, which is financed by the Provincial Government from the funds established two years ago for the renovation of…

His Holiness Irinej, Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church, had a meeting with the President of  Republic of Serbia, Mr. Aleksandar Vucic, on August 12, 2020. According to the official news release on the site of the President of Serbia, important national topics,  such as fight for Kosovo and Metohija, difficult position of the Serbs…

NEW YORK: On Thursday, August 13th, 2020, His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America convened a Holy Eparchial Synod meeting via a teleconference to review significant matters of the Holy Archdiocese. For the accurate information of the clergy and the laity of the Archdiocese, it is clarified that, as it had been decided in 1994, the pension…

Dormition of the Theotokos 2020   The Very Reverend and Reverend Clergy Esteemed Members of the Metropolitan Council, Esteemed Members of the Parish Councils, Philoptochos Sisterhood, Faculty and Students of the Catechetical and Greek Afternoon Schools, Directors and Participants of all Youth Organizations, and all devout Orthodox Christians of the Communities of the Greek Orthodox…

The Belarusian Orthodox Church has issued an address to the people of Belarus amid the street demonstrations, calling on people to observe the public order. “Take care of yourselves and your relatives and loved ones; don’t give in to provocations and act in the spirit of the law of Christian love and the legislation of…