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The leader of the Belarusian Orthodox Church, Metropolitan Pavel, has said that he will meet with representatives of the authorities to discuss a peaceful resolution to the situation which has emerged following the presidential election in Belarus. “I will meet with representatives [of the authorities],” he said at a press conference in Minsk on Wednesday,…

St Dimitrios Greek Orthodox Church in Achrafieh is less than a kilometre away from where the Beirut explosion took place. Father Youil Nassif rushed to the church to check for damage, finding the nave completely ruined. But the sacred altar space, protected by the “iconostasis” (wall of icons), was almost unscathed – including an oil…

On Monday, July 28/August 10, 2020, the Patriarchate celebrated the commemoration of St. Ioannis the New Hozevite at the Holy Monastery of Hozeva, at the desert of brook Chorath, not far away from Jericho. On this day the Church, and especially the Church of Jerusalem honours St. Ioannis from Romania, who came to the Holy…

On Tuesday, July 29/August 11, 2020, the Holy Synod of the Patriarchate of Jerusalem, chaired by H.H.B. the Father and Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos held a normal Meeting with the additional video conference for the participation of the Synodical Members in Jordan, their Eminences Metropolitan of Diocaesarea Benedict and Archbishop Christophoros of Kyriakoypolis, under the…

Humanitarian aid has been brought to the church of the Dormition of the Most Holy Mother of God in the city of Zabadani being restored with the help of Russia and the Russian Orthodox Church. In the course of a joint humanitarian action, the Center for Reconciliation of the Warring Parties in the territory of…

On the 25th anniversary of the beginning of the military action “Storm”, on Tuesday, August 4, 2020, Metropolitan Porfirije of Zagreb-Ljubljana, served as a memorial service for the innocent victims of the war in the 1990s. Surrounded by the clergy of the Cathedral in Zagreb, representatives of the Serbian National Council and of the Embassy…

His Holiness Serbian Patriarch Irinej  received representatives of the Movement for the Defense of Kosovo and Metohija at the Serbian Patriarchate in Belgrade on 7th August 2020. The representatives of the Movement for the Defense of Kosovo and Metohija presented their programme and activities to His Holiness Serbian Patriarch Irinej in order to keep the southern…

His Grace Bishop Fotije of Zvornik and Tuzla officiated the Holy Liturgy in the Ugljevik church of St. Petka Parasceve on August 8, 2020. -Our ancestors expressed their faith by  constructing churches, monasteries and parish homes so that their heirs would have a place to worship God, baptize children, get married and send  the departed…