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Law enforcement authorities in Greece continued to investigate the placement of an incendiary device planted outside the entrance of the Petraki Monastery building in central Athens, where members of the Holy Synod of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece convene. According to initial reports, three suitcases and a large cooking gas canister, all connected together,…

The Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, His Holiness Kirill, this week called on Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin to personally intervene for a temporary suspension in utilities payments owed by Church-affiliated institutions in the vast country. The Russian patriarch cited the severe problems caused by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

Members of the St. George Greek Orthodox congregation in Bethesda, Maryland, showed their appreciation for their parish priest, Fr. Dimitrios Antokas, and his tireless holding of Easter Week services in an empty cathedral, by holding a drive-by procession in front of the church after Easter Sunday. In a statement to local media, parishioner Frances Solovieff…

Turkey’s official tourism agency has again featured Greek Orthodox religious sites, many now being feverishly renovated, in its promotion campaign, called, interestingly enough, “Turkish Spirituality”. The latest such video posted on YouTube shows the iconic church of St. Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, in the wider Antalya region of southern Asia Minor, and specifically at the…

Today, April 22, marks the sad seven-year anniversary since the abduction of Metropolitan Paul Yazigi, of the Patriarchate of Antioch’s Archdiocese of Aleppo, and Syriac Orthodox Archbishop of Aleppo Yohanna Ibrahim. Both hierarchs were abducted by Islamist militants while traveling by car to negotiate the release of two other kidnapped priests. No confirmed reports of…

The annual Bright Tuesday litany of the miracle-working icon of the Panaghia Mighty Protection, conveyed by the monks of Mount Athos’ Koutloumousiou Monastery, was limited this year to the courtyard in front of the monastery’s Catholicos, or main cathedral. The shortened litany was due to precautions against exposure to the coronavirus. The Holy Icon, depicting…

Today is Renewal Wednesday, the third day after Holy and Great Easter Sunday, midway through Bright Week. The Church today venerates the memory of the Apostle Nathaniel, one of the 12 Disciples. He achieved the crown of martyrdom in ancient Armenia.

Bulgaria’s Prime Minister Boyko Borissov and EC President Ursula von der Leyen discussed in a telephone conversation the European Union’s plans and options for emerging out of the Covid-19 crisis as well as concrete measures for the rapid recovery of the economies of the countries of the community. Borissov also informed the President of the…