The Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Albania, in similar fashion with other Orthodox Churches around the region, announced that cathedrals and chapels around the country will remain open only for personal worship. Daily services have been cancelled, while the Divine Liturgies on Sundays and during the Feast of the Annunciation on March 25 will be…

  Archbishop Elpidophoros of America held a prayer service at the Archdiocese Chapel of St. Paul, in New York City, for the healing and remission of sickness during the ongoing escalation of COVID-19.

  The daily lives of billions of people around the world have been severely affected by the ongoing Covid-19 outbreak, what scientists are now calling a global pandemic. As in previous times of dire distress, the faithful have turned to prayer to the Almighty, for comfort and salvation from this menace. On Tuesday evening, at…

The Church today venerates the memory of Cyril, Patriarch of Jerusalem. This Saint was born in 315, and succeeded Maximus as Archbishop of Jerusalem in 350. He was zealous for the Orthodox faith, and was a defender of the poor — reposing in 387.

Daddy George gathered his family and said: There is an epidemic named Corona, which is a contagious virus. The state and the Church have taken measures for our benefit. We’ll be together at home all this period, making the best of our time to benefit and share useful things together as a family so that…

In the evening, in the first quarter of the hour after Ten, when nature slips into darkness’ tranquility, it is at this point when we arouse and devote time to prayer towards God. Let us unite in prayer, with the comfort of knowing that God has not abandoned us; but mindful that we have distanced…

The large-scale restoration of one of the most iconic of the famed wooden churches of the Russian north has completed and the church is slated to open for the first time in 30 years this summer. Holy Transfiguration Church on Kizhi Island in the Republic of Karelia, part of the Kizhi State Open-Air Museum of…

  His Holiness Serbian Patriarch Kyr Irinej on March 17, 2020, received an expert team of Serbian physicians at the Serbian Patriarchate in Belgrade. His Holiness Serbian Patriarch Kyr Irinej, realizing the seriousness of the situation, with regard to the presence of the pandemic, will accept the advice of doctors, i.e., infectologists and epidemiologists, and…

  The services are not held for the saints and the churches are not raised for them. They are made for us. Saints are gods by grace in the heaven of delight, united with God. They do not need our pitiful grimaces. We need to honor them, not to satisfy their shortcomings, but because we…