Georgia’s parliament last week has passed a law allowing the Georgian Orthodox Church to claim hundreds of hectares of state-owned forests surrounding cathedrals and monasteries across the Caucasus country. Seventy-nine MPs voted in favor of the legislation, and none against, during a plenary session on Friday. The law will allow the Georgian Church to…

  The Metropolitanate of Montenegro and the Littoral this week reported yet another instance of harassment of an Orthodox cleric in the country. Specifically, the Church said a group of youths gathered outside the home of priest Nikola Randovic, in the city of Bar, and started to threaten him and his family. The level of…

  New research led by Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health shows that people who attend religious services at least once a week are significantly less likely to die from “deaths of despair,” including deaths related to suicide, drug overdose, and alcohol poisoning. Moreover, the study showed that the association between service attendance and…

  The Church today commemorates the Third Finding of the Precious Head of St. John the Baptist.

The Archdiocese of Thyateira and Great Britain completed its first cycle of Liturgics Seminars successfully today, Saturday 23rd May, with the participation of clergy from the Greater London area. At 9am, in the Archdiocesan Chapel of the Annunciation, both Orthros and the Divine Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom was celebrated according to the Typikon of…

Persecution of Christians in China: as we have reported here for quite some time, the Chinese government is in the midst of an all-out campaign to turn Christianity into a weak religion that is entirely subservient to the Chinese Communist Party, and that doesn’t teach anything that would lead Chinese people away from Communist Party…

Lord and Master of my Life..” is how the Lenten prayer of Saint Ephraim the Syrian, commences. It is not perhaps not entirely coincidental that Archbishop Makarios has chosen to publish a book of meditations focused around this prayer and adopting its first phrase as his title, during the global Coronavirus pandemic, for Saint Ephraim…

Religious officials said that reopening was postponed but did not give a new date JERUSALEM: Two months after it was closed as part of anti-coronavirus precautions, Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre remained closed to the public on Sunday, despite an earlier official announcement of its reopening. Located in the walled Old City of Israeli-annexed…

  To His Holiness Patriarch KIRILL of Moscow and All Russia Your Holiness, Vladyko! CHRIST IS RISEN! On behalf of the Synod of Bishops, the episcopacy, clergy, and the fullness of the Russian Church Abroad and from myself personally I extend heartfelt greetings on the continuing Pascha of Christ and your namesday! Praying today for…