The Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued an announcement regarding the reading from the Quran in Hagia Sophia, on the anniversary of the fall of Constantinople on May 29, 2020. The announcement reads: Today’s reading of passages from the Quran inside Hagia Sophia, a global monument protected by UNESCO as a world heritage site that…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — One by one, the children and adults line up for the centuries-old ritual of Holy Communion, trying to keep a proper social distance. The priest dips a spoon into the chalice of bread and wine, which the faithful believe is the body and blood of Christ, and puts it into the…

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A survey of over 1,000 Christians has revealed how the faithful are finding lockdown. Conducted by Christian charity Agape UK and the Neighbourhood Prayer Network in order to find out what help people needed, respondents were asked about relationships, their community and health. 96 per cent of the 1,174 people asked were Christian. 90 per…

Yesterday, on the feast day of the Ascension of the Lord, His Eminence Archbishop Agapit of Stuttgart, Vicar of the German Diocese, reposed in the Lord. Baptised as Alexander, the future Archbishop Agapit was born in Germany on 29th September, 1955. He completed his schooling in Franfurt-am-Main and went on to study at the department…

Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia is sure that the days of self-isolation should lead to spiritual improvement and will result in spiritual renewal of Russia and the whole world. “The time we are living through today is optimal for making a kind of spiritual breakthrough in your life,” he said in his sermon…

On May 28, 2020, His Grace Bishop Neofitos Kong’ai celebrated Divine Liturgy at his residence Chapel. In attendance were Clergy from Nyeri deanery. “By the Grace of God I had the unique privilege to celebrate Divine Liturgy with the clergy from Nyeri Deanery on the feast of Ascension of our Lord. This was a very…

After more than two months of closure prompted by the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in Jordan in early March, the government announced on Thursday that mosques and churches will reopen as of June 5th and 7th respectively. State Minister for Media Affairs Amjad Adileh made the announcement at a press conference alongside Minister of…

The City of Belgrade marked its Patron Saint-day (slava) – Ascension of Our Lord with the Patriarchal Liturgy His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch, celebrated the Holy Hierarchal Liturgy in the church of the Ascension of Our Lord with the concelebration of protopresbyter-staurophor Vaja Jovic, archpriest Dejan Jakovljevic, presbyterс Predrag Timotijevic and Slavisa Popovic, protodeacon Stevan…