In a press statement on Tuesday, President Klaus Iohannis spoke about relaxing the pandemic rules once the state of emergency is over, on May 15, and said it will be possible to attend religious services in the open air, provided certain requirements are met. “Religious services with believers can be resumed in the first phase…

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In his comment to RIA Novosti news agency, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, expressed the position of the Russian Orthodox Church concerning the arrest in Montenegro of Bishop Joanikije of Budimlye-Niksic and seven clergymen from the cathedral in the city of Niksic. The archpastor noted: The…

Third online Archontariki from Mount Athos, with the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi, will take place on Saturday from 10.00 a.m. to 12.30 p.m., Athens time, or 08.00 to 10.30 GMT. Archontariki in Greek means the guest house in a monastery. You can register via a webpage…

A new book by the Archbishop of Tirana and All Albania, His Beatitude Anastasios, will be published by the Church’s publishing house, Anastasis. The edition is a three-language tome detailing the course of the Orthodox Church in the specific land, entitled “The Orthodox Church in the land of modern-day Albania”.  

The Archbishop of America, His Eminence Elpidophoros, on Wednesday addressed a Homily for the Feast of Mid-Pentecost, during services at the St. Sophia Greek Orthodox Church in Albany, New York. In addressing the flock, His Eminence referred directly to the challenges faced by the Church amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, stressing that “… as we enter…

The Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, His Holiness Kirill, expressed his condolences to the families of five victims of a fire at the St. George Hospital in St. Petersburg — as well as his best wishes for a speedy recovering to the injured. The deadly accident occurred on Tuesday morning in the hospital’s intensive…

The situation the small Adriatic country of Montenegro remains tense, as the government there continues its persecution of the Orthodox Church – only months after legislating and ratifying an utterly controversial law that allows the state to confiscate religious institutions’ properties and relics, unless the latter can provide ownership deeds and titles prior to WWI….

The miracle-working icon of the Panaghia Faneromeni Vathiriakos, which is preserved and venerated at the same-name holy monastery in the northeast Greek province of Thrace, was conveyed on Wednesday to the nearby city of Komotini, as part of celebrations today commemorating the centennial of Thrace’s liberation and annexation by the modern Greek state. The holy…