His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America has issued his Encyclical on the Great and Holy Pascha. Read the full text down below:   Archiepiscopal Encyclical on the Great and Holy Pascha To the Most Reverend Hierarchs, the Reverend Priests and Deacons, the Monks and Nuns, the Presidents and Members of the Parish Councils of the…

EASTER 2020 We encourage you to join the Easter Hope appeal: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/icohs As mentioned by His Beatitude the Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos, you can help alleviate the suffering of Christians in the Holy Land due to COVID-19 by contributing to the Easter Hope appeal: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/icohs   

The Serbian Orthodox Church has issued its Patriarchal Paschal Encyclical 2020. Read the full text down below:   The Serbian Orthodox Church to her spiritual children at Pascha, 2020 +IRINEJ By the Grace of God Orthodox Archbishop of Pec, Metropolitan of Belgrade Karlovci and Serbian Patriarch, with all the Hierarchs of the Serbian Orthodox Church…

His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel sent a video message for Easter in which he encourages the faithful to stay in communion of prayer. He asks for the Lord’s blessing over the doctors, carers and state leaders, whishing Romania and the world good health, hope and peace. The video and full text of his message:   …

The Patriarchate of Bulgaria has issued its Patriarchal And Synodal Paschal Epistle. Read the full text down below:   Beloved in the Lord children of our Holy Church, CHRIST IS RISEN! Unusual is the atmosphere in which, under God’s admission, this year we are celebrating the Resurrection of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. It is…

Easter Message of His Eminence Archbishop Nikitas “On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors being shut where the disciples were” Beloved in the Lord: The above words, taken from the Gospel of John, describe the situation that first Easter morning. It seems that these same words describe the…

† B A R T H O L O M E W BY GOD’S MERCY ARCHBISHOP OF CONSTANTINOPLE-NEW ROME AND ECUMENICAL PATRIARCH TO THE PLENITUDE OF THE CHURCH: MAY THE GRACE, PEACE AND MERCY OF CHRIST RISEN IN GLORY BE WITH YOU ALL * * * Dearest brother Hierarchs and beloved children in the Lord,…

The chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for Church’s Society and Mass Mediа Relations, Vladimir Legoida, said Russian Orthodox clerics are willing and accepting of strict health precautions due to the pandemic, in order to continue visiting, comforting and ministering to people in hospitals and hospices.

The chief counsel for the Metropolitanate of Montenegro and the Littoral, Dragan Sok, this week reiterated that Montenegro authorities continue attempts to manipulate the Orthodox Church in the small Adriatic country, adding that this attempt has negative repercussions in the daily lives of tens of thousands of faithful in the country. He said “… the…