Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia has met with the Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia, His Holiness and Beatitude Ilia II, to discuss reasons behind the declaration of general quarantine throughout the country. Head of the Patriarchate’s Public Relations Service, Andria Jagmaidze, claims that the declaration of universal quarantine was unexpected even for the Church. Accordingly, the Georgian…

Metropolitan Kirill of Stavropol and Nevinnomyssk backed up the idea of hierarchs from other dioceses of the Russian Orthodox Church and flew on board of a helicopter over Stavropol with a cross blessed in Jerusalem and particles of the relics. Patriarch Kirill’s press service reports on Thursday that the head of Stavropol Metropolia “say a…

On Sunday, March 16/29, 2020, 4th Sunday of Lent, the feast of the Precious and Life-giving Cross was celebrated by transference at the Monastery of the Holy Cross, which is located on West Jerusalem, near the Knesset. This feast, according to the Typikon of the Church of Jerusalem is based on the tradition that Lot…

On Wednesday afternoon, March 19/April 1, 2020, on the 5th week of Great Lent, the Great Canon was chanted during the service of the Small Compline. The Great Canon is a poem written by St. Andrew of Jerusalem, Archbishop of Crete. The service was held at the Monastic Church of Saints Constantine and Helen, led…

The Bulgarian Orthodox Church will hold its 2020 Palm Sunday and Easter services outside churches, it emerged after a meeting between Deputy Prime Minister Tomislav Donchev, operational headquarters chief Major-General Ventsislav Mutafchiyski and the church’s governing body on March 30. The Bulgarian Orthodox Church, to which the majority of the country’s citizens claim adherence, has…

We may not be able to leave our homes and we cannot go to our local churches, but we can appreciate services around the world in real time. The beauty of technology in this modern age is the ability to connect with almost every part of the world with just a couple of clicks. 73-year-old…

First of all, we must understand that the idea of patron saints or protectors is not fixed or predetermined. Over time, people have seen that certain saints have helped, either during their life or after death, in a certain area of interest and, therefore, based on this experience, people again seek the help of that…

The tragic death over the weekend of a 12-year-old girl from the coronavirus near Ghent has generated intense concern on the part of the public and extreme sadness, the Metropolitan of Belgium and Exarch of Benelux, His Eminence Athenagoras, told the Orthodoxia news agency this week. In an interview with journalist Antonis Makatounis, His Eminence…

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