A video has been posted today on the Orthodoxia News Agency of an address by the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi, on the theme of “Spiritual Fatherhood, According to the Apostle Paul”. The Elder Ephraim spoke last year, during the annual commemoration of the Apostle Paul’s teaching…

The Episcopal council of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Montenegro has announced that it will fully comply with restrictive measures in place to contain the Covid-19 exposure, calling on people who participate in peaceful protests against a controversial law on religious institutions to disburse after a mass prayer – and not to proceed with street…

The Archbishop of Tirana and All Albania, His Beatitude Anastasios, expressed his gratitude for the multitude of best wishes and messages he has received, in the wake of a successful angioplasty surgery he underwent late last week. In a statement on Saturday, the Archdiocese stressed that …glory be to God, the Archbishop’s recovery is particularly…

Monday marks the one-year anniversary since the enthronement of Makarios as the new Archbishop of Australia. A feature is posted today on the pages of the Orthodoxia News Agency on the first year of the Archbishop’s ministry in the vast island-continent.

Only days remain before Turkey’s highest administrative court rules on a petition demanding that the iconic Hagia Sophia be used for Muslim prayers and worship. The greatest of all cathedrals in eastern Christendom has operated as Turkey’s most visited museum since the 1930s, and is today registered as a prominent UNESCO World Heritage Site. Following…

The Church today venerates the memory of Peter and Paul, the Holy Apostles. The divinely-blessed Peter was from Bethsaida of Galilee. He was the son of Jonas and the brother of Andrew the First-called. He was a fisherman by trade, unlearned and poor, and was called Simon; later he was renamed Peter by the Lord…

“Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you” (Matthew 6, 33) Metropolitan Vladimir celebrated the Divine Liturgy in the  Nativity of the Lord Cathedral in Chisinau on the 3rd Sunday after Pentecost. The Sunday Gospel Reading ends with the words, “Seek first the kingdom of God and…

On June 26, 2020, the Scientific Council was held at Tbilisi Theological Academy and Seminary. The session was chaired by the Rector of the educational institution, Protopresbyter Giorgi Zviadadze, Professor, PhD in Theology and Philology. The Rector thanked the members of the council for having gathered for the session and spoke about the high professionalism…

Members of the U.S. Commission for Religious Freedom condemned the persecution of Montenegrin believers and called to stop it.. On June 26, 2020, members of the U.S. Commission for International Religious Freedom Rev. Johnnie Moore and Nury Turkel published an article entitled “Jews, Muslims and Christians Are All Persecuted in Europe. It Must Stop Now”,…