Safer Internet Day (SID) is commemorated today, Feb. 11, an initiative proposed by EU Commissioner Viviane Reding. The day aims to promote the safe and moral use of the Internet, smart phones and all types of interactive technologies, which now form part of the daily routine of hundreds of millions of people around the…

Residents on a handful of islands in the eastern Aegean continue to face the ongoing and still unresolved migrant/refugee crisis in the area – which springs from the fact that tens of thousands of third country nationals and would-be asylum seekers have landed or have been smuggled onto the islands from the opposite Turkish coast…

  The memory of St. Ephraim the Syrian was venerated on Monday at the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi, with centuries-old Athonite order. The occasion also marked the name day of the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi. The Bishop of EumenIa, His Grace Eirinaios, was welcomed…

  The National Assembly of the Republic of Srpska, the Serbian entity within Bosnia, is expected to ratify a proclamation this month regarding the continued opposition and protest rallies in Montenegro against a controversial law that was passed last month in the small Adriatic country. Deputies in the assembly have called for the proclamation to…

  The Archbishop of Albania, His Beatitude Anastasios, has sent an official letter to the Patriarch of Jerusalem, His Most Godly Beautitude Theophilos III, explaining the reasons why he will be unable to attend a Pan-Orthodox synaxis, or assembly, being organized by the latter in Jordan. His Beatitude Anastasios reiterated that such an initiative undoubtedly…

  The Church today venerates the memory of Vlasios, the Holy Martyr of Sebastia, in Asia Minor. Divine grace, through which he healed the diseases of men and beasts, and especially of infants, made his name famous. He contested for the Faith under Licinius in the year 316.

Daniel Codrescu, the coordinator of the team of artists working at the new Orthodox Cathedral in Bucharest, has released several images of the mosaic icons that will adorn the Cathedral’s altar space. “The decorations from the window frames were installed. In parallel, we also work in the workshop to make the mosaics in detail. We…

Archbishop Anastasios, the primate of the Albanian Orthodox Church, will not attend the Synaxis of the Primates in Jordan proposed by His Beatitude Patriarch Theophilos of Jerusalem for the discussion of issues of Church unity surrounding the ongoing Ukrainian Church crisis. In his letter to the Patriarch of Jerusalem, dated January 8 and published on…

Assembly looks likely to adopt a declaration expressing sympathy for Montenegro’s Serbs in their battles with the Podgorica government over a new religion law. The assembly of the Serb-led entity in Bosnia, Republika Srpska, is likely to adopt a “Declaration on the Situation of the Serbian People in Montenegro” at its next session, following the…