The Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church urges to strictly observe measures on preventing coronavirus. “The Holy Synod considers important consistent and scrupulous observance of sanitary and hygiene measures of preventive character in parishes and monasteries, especially in the regions with officially hard epidemiological situation, including extensive use of sanitary liquids for disinfecting icon frames,…
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On Monday, March 9, 2020, following approval of the Mother Church of Constantinople last November after the request of the Holy Eparchial Synod, His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros, Primate of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America and Exarch of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, announced the creation of the Vicariate for the Orthodox Christian Communities of Slavic Tradition….
Saint Augustine, FL – The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America will host its first-ever conference for the organization of outreach ministry to Spanish-speaking persons with a conference at Saint Photios National Shrine in St. Augustine, Florida, this April 28-30. The conference is part of an initiative spearheaded by Bishop Demetrios of Mokissos, the Shrine’s Hierarchal…
His Beatitude the Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and All the East John received their excellencies the Ministers Mrs. Zeina Akar (Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Defense), Mr. Raymond Ghajar (Energy and Water) and Mr. Michel Najjar (Public Works and Transport) at the Patriarchal Residence in Balamand. The meeting involved the current situation and…
How lived his life and how reached holiness Saint Joseph the Hesychast? Read a fragment from one of his letters: When, by praying and asking for something from God, you reach despair, then the fulfillment of the request is near to you. Christ wants to heal some hidden passion from you, so He delays the…
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Talks between the Montenegro government with the Montenegrin Metropolis of the Serbian Orthodox Church and other dioceses of the Serbian Church in Montenegro, regarding a recently-passed and utterly controversial law, called “On Freedom of Religion and Belief and the Legal Status of Religious Communities,” took place today. The law gives the Montenegro state the right…
In Greece on Wednesday, a statement by the Holy Synod of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece reiterated that the Holy Communion cannot be the source of transmission of diseases, while stressing that debate in the country over the past few days, with some extreme voices even calling for a prohibition on the partaking of…