The Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, His Beatitude Ieronymos, met with Athens regional governor Giorgos Patoulis on Thursday, with the focus of the meeting on restoration works on more than a dozen historic Church-owned buildings in the center of Athens, of which seven have been designated as modern monuments. The regional government is financing…

The Archbishop of America, His Eminence Elpidophoros, attended a peaceful protest march on Wednesday in Crown Heights district of Brooklyn, at the invitation of borough President Eric Leroy Adams and New York State Senator Andrew Gounardes. The protest was held over the death of Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old emergency medical technician who was killed when…

The Very Rev. Fr. Bartholomew Iatridis, an Archimandrite of the Ecumenical Patriarchate and clergyman of the Holy Metropolis of Maroneia and Komotini, Greece, has joined the Holy Metropolis of Sweden and All Scandinavia for two years on loan. Fr. Bartholomew will assume duties of Parish Priest at the St. George Cathedral in Stockholm and serve…

After providing more than 4.3 million euros during the coronavirus pandemic, the efforts of the Church and its organizations have focused on supporting children in distance education. Romanian Orthodox Church permanently supports the education of children and young people: full text In the context of the current pandemic, the Romanian Patriarchate offers tablets or other electronic devices…

With the blessing of His Grace Bishop Ioan Casian, on the weekend of May 30-31, around June 1 the International Children’s Day, the children who participated in the two camps organized by the Romanian Orthodox Diocese of Canada – St. Theodore of Sihla in Ontario, and St. Andrew – the Apostle of Quebec met with some of Sunday school…

Religious events will be allowed indoors in Ukraine since June 5, on the condition that the number of people present is limited to one person per five square meters. This decision was made on Wednesday. The Ukrainian government will also allow public catering establishments to resume operations, in particular, to serve visitors indoors. People over…

ROYA New York “For where there are two or three gathered in my name, there am I with them (Mathew 18:20).” During these troubling times of pandemic where we have become progressively more isolated, Romanian Orthodox Youth in the Americas (ROYA) provided the perfect opportunity to maintain a sense of Orthodox community. This was done…

His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, following the wish of the Mother Church of Constantinople to have coordination and, as far as possible, uniformity between the local Orthodox Churches on the extremely important question of the Divine Eucharist and of the way of distributing it to the faithful, sent the following letter on 17 May 2020 to…

The government will allocate 600,000 levs (about 307,000 euros) for the restoration, repair and maintenance of the Rila Monastery, one of the most important cultural monuments in Bulgaria. This was announced by Prime Minister Boyko Borissov after visiting the monastery and getting acquainted with its financial problems. Earlier, the monastery complained that it had not…