The Archdiocese of Thyateira and Great Britain expressed its appreciation to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson for his best wishes, on the occasion of the celebration of Holy and Great Easter by the Orthodox faithful in the United Kingdom. The Archdiocese also conveyed its hope to Johnson for a speedy recovery from his coronavirus infection….

The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Canada issued a statement regarding a mass shooting in Nova Scotia over the weekend. The statement read, “…His Eminence Archbishop Sotirios, together with the entire plenitude of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Canada, mourns the tragic and senseless loss of life that took place in Nova Scotia …The Archdiocese grieves…

The Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople’s newly enthroned Metropolitan of Imvros and Tenedos, His Eminence Kirillos, referred to a lonesome Easter experienced this year by the remaining Greek Orthodox faithful on the two islands in the northeast Aegean, as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. The measures imposed in Turkey, which formally possessed the two isles…

Russian President Vladimir Putin this week thanked the Orthodox faithful in the vast country for complying with coronavirus-related public health restrictions during Easter Week. In a letter to the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, His Holiness Kirill, the Russian president expressed his deep gratitude for the former’s responsible and tireless work, as he said,…

A litany of the Holy Icon of the Theotokos Axion Estin was held on Bright Monday at the capital of the semi-autonomous monastic community of Mount Athos, Karyes. Some 70 representatives of the holy monasteries on the northern Greece peninsula participated in the litany, all following prescribed social distances, while the Holy Icon was accompanied…

Today is Renewal Tuesday, the second day after Holy and Great Easter Sunday. The Church today also commemorates Sts. Raphael, Nicholas, Irene, and the Other Newly-revealed Martyrs of Lesbos, in the eastern Aegean. The trio achieved the crown of martyrdom 10 years after the fall of Constantinople, at the hands of Moslem pirates. The larger…

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In his pastoral letter on Holy Pascha 2020, the Metropolitan of Bessarabia urged Orthodox Christians to profess Christ’s Resurrection and to take advantage of the home isolation period to consolidate their family relationships, but also to do mercy, thus showing solidarity with those affected by the coronavirus pandemic. ‘It may be hard and uncomfortable for…

The Prince of Wales has sent a video message for the Romanians, who celebrate Orthodox Easter. In it, he evokes the current health crisis and expresses the wish to travel again to Romania and also to meet again with members of the Romanian community in the United Kingdom. The message was recorded on Friday at…