The Metropolitan of Volokolamsk and head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations, His Eminence Hilarion, disclosed that a meeting of Orthodox Primates will take place in Amman, Jordan next Wednesday. The meeting has been called by the Patriarch of Jerusalem, His Most Godly Beatitude Theophilos III. The Russian Metropolitan, in fact, cited…

Thousands of people again took to the streets in cities around Montenegro for peaceful rallies against a controversial law passed last month by the government, one regarding religious institutions in the small Adriatic country. The Orthodox Church in Montenegro has very vocally charged that the law is mostly aimed against it, threatening its cathedrals, estates…

The Church today venerates the memory of Timothy the Righteous. St. Timothy took up monastic life from his youth, becoming a vessel of the Holy Spirit, and reposed in deep old age. The Church also venerates the memory of Eustathius, a fourth century Bishop of Antioch and prominent opponent of the heresy of Arianism.

The opening and operation of so-called Imam Hatip religious secondary schools in predominately Muslim Thursday has dramatically increased during the tenure of Recep Tayyip Erdogan — as both prime minister and today as president. The number of such schools around the predominately Muslim country, originally foreseen in the pre-war period as vocational institutes to train…

The Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, His Most Beatitude Theodoros II, arrived in the southern Africa country of Malawi this week, accompanied by the Metropolitan of Axum, His Eminence Daniel, and by the Bishop of Malawi, His Grace Fotios. A doxology service was held at the Orthodox chapel of the Annunciation of…

A group of academics from Athens arrived at the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople this week to assist in efforts to preserve and restore the renowned mosaic icon of the Panaghia Pammakaristos, which is dated to the late Byzantine era.

You ask, will the others be saved… Why do you worry about them? They have a Savior Who desires the salvation of every human being. He will take care of them. You and I should not be burdened with such a concern. Study yourself and your own sins and not so much how to preach…

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The Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, His Holiness Kirill, this week attended the final of a hockey tournament being hosted at an ice rink in Moscow’s Red Square, where he cited his great interest in promoting sports, especially among children and young people, in order to build strong bodies and minds.