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15.05.2020 | 15:55
The Holy Synod of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church strongly condemns the arrest of His Grace Bishop Joanikije of Budimlye-Niksic by the Montenegrin authorities
The Holy Synod of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church has issued the following statement regarding the arrest of His Grace Bishop Joanikije of Budimlye-Niksic and seven priests by the Montenegrin authorities. The statement reads: The Holy Synod of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church strongly condemns the latest persecution of the Serbian Orthodox Church…
15.05.2020 | 15:44
Priests to receive one-time crisis allowance of $325 in Latvia
The Latvian Cabinet of Ministers voted on Tuesday, May 12, to support the Ministry of Justice’s proposal to allocate $255,709 (236,400 euros) from contingency funds for crisis benefits for church clergy and employees. Each qualifying priest, pastor, or employee will receive a one-time payment of $325 (300 euros), reports DELFI. According to information from religious…
15.05.2020 | 15:05
Patriarch Kirill reduces diocesan and parish dues to Patriarchate by 25% for 2020
His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia issued an order yesterday easing the financial burden on all dioceses and parishes of the Russian Church on the territory of Russia during this time of pandemic, reports the official site of the Moscow Patriarchate. The order comes against the background of the people’s restricted access…
15.05.2020 | 14:01
New financial and material support offered by the Romanian Patriarchate before the expiration of the state of emergency
The Romanian Orthodox Church has continued its extensive aid campaign in the context of the pandemic and the emergency state, the latter effectively ending in Romania this Thursday, May 14. The Church has offered substantial and diversified aid, through parishes and dioceses, to the elderly and the poor, the sick and disabled and to the…
15.05.2020 | 10:52
Greek Orthodox churches open doors in Australia, but are required to take ‘service bookings’
Religious organisations in Australia can hold services for up to 10 people with social-distancing rules observed. Archimandrite Evmenios Vasilopoulos, Archiepiscopal Vicar of Northcote, told Neos Kosmos that only ten parishioners will be allowed in the church at any given time. The number will not count clerics, chanters and altar boys. People will no longer be…
15.05.2020 | 10:15
2020 Supreme Convention Canceled Due to COVID-19
Due to the global coronavirus pandemic, the American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association (Order of AHEPA) has made the difficult decision to cancel the 98th AHEPA Family Supreme Convention scheduled for July 19 to 26, 2020, at Walt Disney World® Resort, in Orlando, Fla., announced Supreme President George G. Horiates. “Protecting the health, safety, and well-being…
15.05.2020 | 9:21
Participation of the faithful to open-air religious services allowed in Romania starting May 15
In a press statement on Tuesday, President Klaus Iohannis spoke about relaxing the pandemic rules once the state of emergency is over, on May 15, and said it will be possible to attend religious services in the open air, provided certain requirements are met. “Religious services with believers can be resumed in the first phase…
14.05.2020 | 21:00
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14.05.2020 | 20:32
Metropolitan Hilarion comments on the situation with the arrest of Bishop Joanikije of Budimlye-Niksic and seven clergymen in Montenegro
In his comment to RIA Novosti news agency, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, expressed the position of the Russian Orthodox Church concerning the arrest in Montenegro of Bishop Joanikije of Budimlye-Niksic and seven clergymen from the cathedral in the city of Niksic. The archpastor noted: The…
