Global efforts to reduce people’s exposure to the coronavirus continue on an intensive pace continued to dominate all of the world’s attention at the start of the week. The Greek government, for instance, on Sunday evening announced a series of new restrictive measures to stop the non-essential movement of people around the east Mediterranean…

The Church today venerates the Holy Righteous Martyr Nicon and His 199 Disciples. St. Nicon was born in Naples. At first he was a soldier, he later went to the East, where he was baptized and in time became a bishop. After several years, he arrived in Sicily, where he and many of his disciples…

While pious priests in Georgia, Ukraine, and elsewhere have begun blessing their churches and surrounding streets in processions throughout their cities, His Eminence Metropolitan Pavel of Minsk and Zaslavl took to the skies this weekend to bless the capital of Belarus. Yesterday, March 22, His Eminence served a moleben in times of devastating plague and…

Holy Communion does not make people sick because the Holy Communion is truly the real Body and Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, the giver of life. Let us not forget that this teaching is basic in the Church which has passed through the history of pandemics much harsher than the one which we pass…

In the powerful earthquake that struck Zagreb on March 22, 202, capital city of Croatia, the Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord at the Cvetni trg (Flower Square) was also damaged. As deacon Dragan Radic, author of photographs of the destroyed church and buildings in the surrounding streets, told the Serbian Orthodox Church Information…

The Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi has donated a half a ton of frozen poultry products to the Holy Metropolis of Syros-Tinos. The products, under the blessing of the Metropolitan of Syros-Tinos, His Eminence Dorotheos II, will be distributed to families in need on the Cyclades island of Tinos, as part of the Metropolis’…

The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, on Sunday expressed his fraternal support and solidarity to the Italian people, who are being sorely tested by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, in a letter to the Catholic Pope, Francis, as well as the President of the Italian Republic, Sergio Mattarella. His All Holiness praises…

Divine Liturgies were celebrated in Orthodox Churches around the small Adriatic country of Montenegro on Sunday, although strict conditions were in place to prevent any exposure to the coronavirus (Covid-19), such as a cap on the number of worshippers attending and prescribed distances between them. Additionally, the Holy Communion was given to each worshipper in…

The Sunday of the Veneration of the Holy Cross was commemorated today with millennia-old Athonite tradition at the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi, on the semi-autonomous monastic community of Mt. Athos. The Divine Liturgy was officiated by Archimandrite Elder Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi, and co-officiated by other…