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…

Paschal Message of Patriarch KIRILL of Moscow and All Russia to the Archpastors, Pastors, Deacons, Monastics and All the Faithful Children of the Russian Orthodox Church Your Graces the archpastors, venerable fathers, all-honourable monks and nuns, dear brothers and sisters: CHRIST IS RISEN! By the grace of the All-Generous God, we have been vouchsafed to come to the radiant…

In the morning of April 19, 2020, the feast of the Bright Resurrection of Christ, Paschal Matins and festive Divine Liturgy were celebrated at the Damascus representation of the Russian Orthodox Church by Hegumen Arseniy (Sokolov), representative of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russian to the Patriarch of Great Antioch and All the East….

Ecumenical Patriarch to the Young: You can turn the pandemic of fear and disease into an opportunity for support and love for your fellow human beings. The Glorious Resurrection of the Lord was celebrated in the Center of Orthodoxy with special splendor and solemnity, and in accord with longstanding ecclesiastical tradition and order. The Ecumenical…