Sharp reactions accompanied the latest Turkish provocation against the island republic of Cyprus, in the eastern Mediterranean, in the wake of a top Turkish official’s threat to re-open the ghost town of Varosha to illegal Turkish settlement and exploitation. Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay blatantly claimed that Varosha belongs to the illegal Turkish Cypriot regime, before…

The Episcopal Council of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Montenegro, led by His Eminence Metropolitan Amfilohije of Montenegro, has submitted proposed amendments to the new “Law on Freedom of Religion or Belief and the Legal Status of Religious Communities” that has caused waves of protests throughout the country since it passed in late December. Several…

His Eminence Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk met with Minister for Innovation and Technological Development Mr. Nenad Popovic at the hovernment building in Belgrade. spc.rs

Often, husbands come and ask us how to behave toward their wives. Of course, this topic is, in the last analysis, a personal theme between you and your spiritual father (priest) but some general problems can be explained which, if resolved, we could avoid a lot of quarrels. The wife must know that she is…

Tbilisi, February 17, Interfax – Georgian Orthodox Church said it has decided not to take part in a meeting between the primates of local Orthodox Churches in Jordan on February 26, proposed by Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem to discuss problems faced by the Orthodox world. The reason the Georgian Church decided not to attend…

  people who don’t give their shrines, who save their honour and souls, have become the true people of God based on the testament of St. Peter of Cetinje, on his laws“, said Metropolitan Amfilohije. On Sunday,26th February 2020, a prayer of supplication to The Most Holy Theotokos was held in the Orthodox Cathedral of…

  His Holiness Serbian Patriarch Irinej received His Eminence Metropolitan Ilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, at the Serbian Patriarchate in Belgrade on February 17, 2020. The reception was attended by members of the Holy Synod of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church: Their Graces Bishops Irinej (Bulovic)…

His Eminence Metropolitan Ilarion (Alfeyev) of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, arrived in Belgrade on February 17, 2020. A distinguished guest from the sister Russian Orthodox Church was greeted at the Belgrade Airport “Nikola Tesla” by members of the Holy Synod of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church: Their…

His Beatitude Theodoros II, Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, on the feast of Great Martyr Theodore the Tyro, celebrates his name day. His Beatitude (born Nicholas Horeftakis), was born in Crete in 25 November 1954, where he completed his schooling. He is a graduate of the Rizarios Ecclesiastical School of Athens and…