The Russian Orthodox Church over the weekend inaugurated a program whereby clerics can meet and comfort patients in hospitals via an online platform, including patients treated for the coronavirus. The platform and meetings were organized by Moscow Patriarchate’s Synodal Department for Church Charity and Social Ministry.

  The Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia, His Holiness and Beatitude Ilia II, spoke after the Divine Liturgy on Sunday at the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in Tbilisi, on the institution of the family, which was commemorated in the Caucasus country the same day. In his sermon, the Georgian Patriarch noted that “today we celebrate…

  The Archbishop of Australia, His Eminence Makarios, issued a plea for donations for one of the Church’s faithful, Dimitris Garbas, who is battling with muscular sclerosis since September 2017. The goal of a fund-raising campaign is to send Dimitris to Russia for treatment that involves stem cell transplantation, which reportedly features a success rate…

  In his Homily on the Sunday of the Samaritan Woman, the Archbishop of America, His Eminence Elpidophoros, referred to two important commemorations on Sunday, citing the annual AHEPA Sunday and the Pontian Genocide remembrance. As His Eminence stated, both of these observances call to mind that we “…are a community with a past, and…

  Today is the fifth Monday after Pascha, Holy and Great Easter Sunday. The Church today venerates the Eight Holy Martyrs — Peter, Dionysius, Andrew, Paul, Christina, Heraclius, Paulinus and Benedimus. These saints, from various parts of the Roman Empire, all contested in martyrdom during the reign of Emperor Decius in the third century.

At the request of a coronavirus patient, the Orthodox priest, who serves as chaplain at Timisoara’s infectious diseases hospital, put on the protective medical equipment and visited without any hesitation the person right in the hospital ward. Father Dorian Oprisor received the approval of the hospital’s management. ‘At Victor Babes Hospital, we treat not only…

  Another online initiative  of the General Secretariat for Greeks Abroad ATHENS – The GENERAL SECRETARIAT FOR GREEKS ABROAD (GSGA) at the MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS is pleased to announce the launch of StaEllinika, a Greek language learning platform available, as a pilot in select schools of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, in collaboration…

The Romanian Orthodox faithful were blessed to begin attending open-air services on Friday May 15, following a period of quarantine due to the coronavirus pandemic. In preparation for the return, the Church issued guidelines “regarding the access of Orthodox believers to places of worship and cemeteries, and their participation in divine services.” Many of the…

On Wednesday, May 13, 2020, the day of Mid-Pentecost, in response to pleas by many Orthodox Christians and with the blessing of His Eminence Metropolitan Hilarion of Eastern America and New York, First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, His Grace Bishop Nicholas of Manhattan, after Divine Liturgy at St Seraphim Memorial…