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  The Archbishop of Australia, His Eminence Makarios, issued a message of unity on the occasion of the celebration of the memory of the Holy Fathers of the First Ecumenical Council. Sunday, May 31, is dedicated to the memory of the 318 Holy Fathers who took part in the Ecumenical Council of Nicaea and who…

  Many Orthodox clergymen in the greater Moscow who recovered from the Covid-19 virus are now beginning to donate blood plasma for the treatment of other coronavirus-infected patients, according to an announcement by the Moscow Patriarchate’s Synodical Department for Church Charity and Social Ministry.

The Patriarch of Bulgaria, His Holiness Neophyte, issued a message on International Children’s Day, which in Bulgaria is commemorated on June 1. His Holiness noted that children for the individual, a family and a nation are a blessing and all valuable.

  The Bishop of Niksic, His Grace Joanikije, spoke this week about the three days he remained jailed by authorities in Montenegro last month, while touching on the provocations and violence now faced by the Orthodox Church and its faithful in the small Adriatic country. Among others, His Grace said he prayed, rested, read a…

  The semi-autonomous Orthodox monastic community of Mount Athos has again opened its borders to pilgrims, with the ceiling set at 15 male pilgrims per monastery; less for sketes and hermitages, in an announcement issued by the Holy Community. Additionally, a ban on the movement of pilgrims and visitors from one monastery to the other…

  The permanent Holy Synod will again convene on Tuesday, the first session since churches and cathedrals in the country were reopened for services in the presence of worshippers, after two months of a restrictive Covid-19 lockdown. According to information gleaned by the Orthodoxia news agency, members of the Church of Greece’s Holy Synod have…

  Debate begins on Monday in a relevant Greek Parliament committee over a draft bill regarding changes in the east Mediterranean’s public education sector, which among others, retains the low number of hours for weekly instruction in religious studies, while excluding this lesson from end-of-the-year exit exams. At the same time the draft bill foresees…

On Sunday, May 18/31, 2020, Sunday of the commemoration of the Holy Fathers of the First Ecumenical Synod, who condemned Arius and established the doctrine of the one essence of the Son with the Father, and formulated the first eight canons of the Creed, His Beatitude our Father and Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos, in place…