The holy fire will be delivered to the Holy Trinity Cathedral on the Easter night after 23:00. Tsisana Gemazashvili, Director of Pilgrim Tours, told reporters at the Holy Trinity Cathedral that she would travel to Israel together with two clerics. According to her, the Holy Fire will be handed over to the clergy by a…

The government will probably be forced to close cemeteries in large cities – Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia said during the special briefing and added that the decision will be made in 2 days. “All the imposed restrictions refer to everybody. We seriously consider religious activities, traditions and visits to cemeteries that are directly linked to…

Easter service will be conducted, the details are to be agreed and I will talk about details tomorrow, – ​Head of the Patriarchate’s Public Relations Service, Andria Jagmaidze, noted at a briefing on April 14, 2020, when answering the question about Easter Divine Liturgy. “We will talk about it in detail tomorrow, but one thing…

  Having entered the fourth week of quarantine, and in view of the coming of the Holy days of Pascha, being pressured by the stress and fear that is being imposed on us; with the pressure developing from trying to govern the monastery under such circumstances and with deep sadness filling my heart from the…

Mourners have been been left confused by restrictions around visiting cemeteries in Victoria, with police saying people are allowed to mourn as long as they keep to social distancing rules. But that wasn’t the case for Father Emmanuel Lykopandis who claimed on Facebook that he was shut out from visiting Keilor Cemetery on Good Friday….

Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia has attended the meeting held at the Georgian Patriarchate on Monday evening, the PM’s press office has confirmed to InterPressNews. Reportedly, Ekaterine Tikaradze, Minister of Health, and Amiran Gamkrelidze, head of the National Center for Disease Control, have also attended the meeting between the representatives of the Patriarchate and the authorities….

A handful of eastern Aegean islands face their own tribulation amid Holy Easter Week. Remote chapels on the island of Lesvos continue to fall victim to sacrilegious vandals, despite imposed restrictions on movement. The problem is particularly acute around the notorious Moria “hotspot”, where thousands of would-be asylum seekers and illegal migrants, practically all from…

The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, on Holy Monday officiated at the Liturgy of the Pre-sanctified Gifts at the Patriarchal Cathedral of St. George, followed by the Matins service in the evening for the next day’s liturgy.   Halfway around the world, the Archbishop of America, His Eminence Elpidophoros, officiated at…

Athens-area parish priest Georgios Schinas justified his decision to offer the Holy Communion outside his church on Palm Sunday, in a letter addressed to the Holy Synod of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece. In his letter, which was published by the Orthodoxia Νews Αgency, Fr. Georgios first notes that he fully respects decisions by…