The Archdiocese of Thyateira and Great Britain completed its first cycle of Liturgics Seminars successfully today, Saturday 23rd May, with the participation of clergy from the Greater London area. At 9am, in the Archdiocesan Chapel of the Annunciation, both Orthros and the Divine Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom was celebrated according to the Typikon of…

Persecution of Christians in China: as we have reported here for quite some time, the Chinese government is in the midst of an all-out campaign to turn Christianity into a weak religion that is entirely subservient to the Chinese Communist Party, and that doesn’t teach anything that would lead Chinese people away from Communist Party…

Lord and Master of my Life..” is how the Lenten prayer of Saint Ephraim the Syrian, commences. It is not perhaps not entirely coincidental that Archbishop Makarios has chosen to publish a book of meditations focused around this prayer and adopting its first phrase as his title, during the global Coronavirus pandemic, for Saint Ephraim…

Religious officials said that reopening was postponed but did not give a new date JERUSALEM: Two months after it was closed as part of anti-coronavirus precautions, Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre remained closed to the public on Sunday, despite an earlier official announcement of its reopening. Located in the walled Old City of Israeli-annexed…

  To His Holiness Patriarch KIRILL of Moscow and All Russia Your Holiness, Vladyko! CHRIST IS RISEN! On behalf of the Synod of Bishops, the episcopacy, clergy, and the fullness of the Russian Church Abroad and from myself personally I extend heartfelt greetings on the continuing Pascha of Christ and your namesday! Praying today for…

“Don’t pass these on as a simple idea, as our own cultural inheritance,” he said, “but pass them to the younger generations as the legacy of all humanity, of the entire human race. Because, truly, that which existed in Pontos was something very unique and very exalted; it was something wonderful,” he added. His Eminence…

The feast of Saints Constantine and Helen is of special importance for the Halki seminary. On this day, Metropolitan Konstantinos of Stavroupolis celebrated his name day, who was the first Dean and Professor of Philosophy at the seminary. After the Divine Liturgy, the Abbot of the Holy Trinity Monastery of Halki, Bishop Kassianos of Aravissos,…

His Eminence Metropolitan Nicolae Condrea of the Americas wrote a message for the feast of the Holy Emperors Constantine and Helen, focusing on St Constantine’s calling to grant freedom to humankind. His Eminence noted that through Saint Constantine the Great we received freedom in God, ‘spiritual liberty which was hidden, held captive in a world of the…

The Church of Cyprus said Thursday it would not be serving Holy Communion with plastic spoons and stood by its position to use the same metal spoon it always had for the entire congregation. In a statement, the Church said it did not accept the use of plastic spoons as outlined in health ministry guidelines….