The US administration is the latest international party to issue a statement regarding the status of the iconic Hagia Sophia, with Sam Brownback, the US Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom, taking to Twitter to stress that “…The Hagia Sophia holds enormous spiritual and cultural significance to billions of believers of different faiths…

NEW YORK – Today, June 25, 2020, The Holy and Sacred Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate released the summation of their work at the Meeting of the Holy Synod in Chambésy, Geneva at Orthodox Center of the Ecumenical Patriarchate. This included consideration of the responses of the Local Autocephalous Churches to the May 17, 2020…

  Today’s International Day Against Drugs is an opportunity to reflect on the extent to which this modern scourge has plagued humanity and especially young people and, at the same time, to realise the urgent need for collective and coordinated action, at all levels, with a view not only to cure the existing problem but,…

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The Church today venerates the memory of the Righteous Martyr Febronia, as well as the martyr Orentius and his six brothers, all soldiers in the Roman Army. They were cashiered for declaring themselves as Christians – suffering martyrdom during the persecutions of Roman co-Emperor Maximian. Today is also the feast day of St. Dionysius, the…

Well-known Serbian director Emir Kusturica this week visited the new Cathedral of the Armed Forces of Russia, built in honor of the 75th anniversary of victory in the Great Patriotic War, as the Second World War is known in Russia. Kusturica said he was acquainted with the elements of the artistic and architectural decoration of…

Support continued to pour in from the Orthodox faithful for the Archbishop of Australia, His Eminence Makarios, following a series of recent malicious press reports and subsequent criticism dealing with the purchase of a property in Sydney by the Archdiocese. The furor arose just days before the first anniversary of Makarios’ enthronement as Archbishop of…

Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, His Beatitude Ieronymos, issued a message for Friday’s world day against narcotics, extending a Christian message of hope for those, as he said, courageously walking down a path of detoxification, as well as to their families; a message of faith in the Resurrected Christ to bring light to the…

Sessions of the Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople continued on Thursday, under the chairmanship of the Ecumenical Patriarch, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, at the Orthodox Center of Chambesy, outside Geneva. As we reported on Wednesday, the Holy Synod this week announced the canonization of reposed Metropolitan of Edessa, Pella and AlmopIas,…