The Church of Cyprus will back strict compliance with the lockdown aimed at containing the spread of coronavirus, Archbishop Chrysostomos assured President Nicos Anastasiades on Thursday. Government spokesman Kyriakos Koushos said that the president and the archbishop had met at the Presidential Palace and discussed the government’s decision yesterday to extend the lockdown until the…

At this difficult time, when the governmental authorities are taking all possible measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus infection, I call upon the hierarchs, clergy, monastics and laypeople to intensify your prayer to the Lord for the deliverance of people from the harmful epidemic, and I call upon the arhpastors and pastors to…

His Eminence Metropolitan Evangelos of New Jersey has issued an Archpastoral Message. Read the full text down below: April 9, 2020 To the Devout Orthodox Christians of the Parishes/Ecclesiastical Communities of the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of New Jersey My Beloved in the Lord, As our Nation, our Holy Orthodox Church, our Metropolis and local Parish…

The Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Albania has donated this Thursday 1,000 masks, 1,000 gloves and 110 liters of disinfectant to the Local Police Directorate (DVP) of Tirana. Police officers along with medical staffs are on the front line of the combat against COVID-19 epidemic. Underlining that they got the chance to provide the protective materials…

The state has made difficult decisions in order to allow no exceptions to the gathering of people and the transmission of the coronavirus, Civil Protection Deputy Minister for Crisis Management Nikos Hardalias said during a daily briefing on Thursday.In this context, Hardalias said, speaking after the Health Ministry’s spokesman on novel coronavirus Sotiris Tsiodras, the…

President of the Hellenic Republic Katerina Sakellaropoulou on Friday spoke on the phone with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, who she thanked for his good wishes upon her assumption of office, while she also expressed her support for the ordeal facing both ethnic Greeks and the Church due to the coronavirus pandemic. On his part, the Ecumenical…

In response to the immediate global crisis resulting from the current pandemic and, in particular, to the dramatic effects it is having on all people, specifically upon those who have lost their jobs and their salaries, as our resident international students, the Holy Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia, in collaboration with various Community Organisations and…

During this troubling time of the coronavirus pandemic, the Serbian Church has continued and expanded upon its usual humanitarian endeavors. The Serbian Orthodox Metropolis of Montenegro has donated valuable medical equipment to various hospitals throughout the country to help fight the coronavirus pandemic. In particular, funds were donated for the purchase of seven monitors and…

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