Twenty two years ago today His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew began his remarkable nine-day, eight-city trip to Canada, which culminated with the Divine Liturgy at the old Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto that included 17 bishops, 70 priests, and 19,000 faithful.   Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Canada/facebook

On St Nicholas day, May 22, Orthodox parish of St Matrona of Moscow organized the distribution of humanitarian aid to the needy families of Barangay Bukan in Davao city. More than seventy poorest families received food packages. Quarantined for more than two months, people in poor neighborhoods, unable to work or grow vegetables, are in…

  Serbian tennis star Novak Djokovic, continues to stand by the side of his compatriots during the ongoing coronavirus, having donated more than five million euros to Serbia’s public health system, and to people in need. Djokovic also donated to the Serbian Orthodox Church’s charities.

  The Patriarch of All Romania, His Beatitude Daniel, in a sermon on the Sunday of the Blind Man, underlined that a calamity is not always a result of sin, but can also service as an opportunity for God’s unseen ways to reinforce the faith of man.

  The Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem continues to be off-limits to worshipers, despite a previous announcement citing its reopening. According to media reports, the reopening of the holy cathedral was postponed, and no new date was given by the Jerusalem Patriarchate for its reopening to worshipers. The same reports claimed difficulty on…

  Georgia’s parliament last week has passed a law allowing the Georgian Orthodox Church to claim hundreds of hectares of state-owned forests surrounding cathedrals and monasteries across the Caucasus country. Seventy-nine MPs voted in favor of the legislation, and none against, during a plenary session on Friday. The law will allow the Georgian Church to…

  The Metropolitanate of Montenegro and the Littoral this week reported yet another instance of harassment of an Orthodox cleric in the country. Specifically, the Church said a group of youths gathered outside the home of priest Nikola Randovic, in the city of Bar, and started to threaten him and his family. The level of…

  New research led by Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health shows that people who attend religious services at least once a week are significantly less likely to die from “deaths of despair,” including deaths related to suicide, drug overdose, and alcohol poisoning. Moreover, the study showed that the association between service attendance and…

  The Church today commemorates the Third Finding of the Precious Head of St. John the Baptist.