The Cypriot government is expected to call on the Church of Cyprus to follow a decision last week by the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece regarding services and liturgies for Easter Holy Week. According to reports, Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades will propose to the Archbishop of Cyprus, His Eminence Chrysostomos, that the Resurrection be…

  The Greek government, as first reported by the Orthodoxia news agency, has extended temporary coronavirus-related restrictions on places of worship around the country until April 20. That date falls on Bright Monday, the day after Easter Sunday. The Great and Holy Week for Easter (Pascha) in the predominately Christian Orthodox country is the peak…

The Church today venerates the memory of Righteous Father Savvas the New, of Kalymnos. St. Savvas the New, an Athonite ascetic, was born on the eastern Aegean island in 1862. A feature is posted today on the Orthodoxia news agency of this 19th century saint’s life and works.

His Holiness Patriarch Serbian Irinej officiated Divine Liturgy of St. Basil the Great at the Convent of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Belgrade, on the Fifth Sunday of Lent, April 5, 2020, offering his prayers for the salvation of all. In accordance with the new state of emergency caused by the pandemic of the corona…

In the last few years, St. Vladimir’s Seminary has seen an increase in students from the Serbian Church. Recently, SVOTS received a generous $25,000 gift earmarked for scholarships to Serbian students, from two recently reposed parishioners who left bequests through Holy Resurrection Serbian Eastern Orthodox Church in Steubenville, OH. The bequests of the parishioners stipulated…

When will the trial we go through be over? When will the good news come? The answer is in us. Let us not forget that Adam fell not because he denied the existence of God, but because he denied His will in his disobedience. We do not know what is inside the Holy Trinity. The…

  A new documentary on the great 20th-century Athonite spiritual father Elder Joseph the Hesychast has been nominated in three categories of the annual London Short Film Festival, reports the Orthodoxia News Agency. The film features 5-time Emmy award winning actor and convert to Orthodoxy Jonathan Jackson in the role of St. Joseph. The world…

The Greek government, as first reported by the Orthodoxia news agency, extended temporary coronavirus-related restrictions against the presence of people at places of worship around the country until April 20, which falls on Bright Monday, the day after Easter Sunday. The Great and Holy Week for Easter (Pascha) in the predominately Christian Orthodox country is…

A hundred church chanters formed a nationwide choir on Sunday teaming up for a communal singalong in honour of the Mother of God. The church singers found a way to record one of the most famous hymns of all, singing it individually, on their phones. Then the videos were combined into a virtual cell phone…