It was in the parish of perpetually-depressed Johnstown, Pennsylvania, a number of decades ago. The colors of the land were washed out. The sky was drab with winter, even in spring, and the view from the parish rectory grimy, looking over the grey mountain-range and a tired horizon. Much of the area’s industries were shuttered…

The Bulgarian Orthodox church has not given its blessing for providing Christian artifacts for the exhibition in the Louvre, BNR reported. This is a principled position that items must not be taken out of the church repositories and taken abroad unless it is for pilgrimages, said Gerasim,Bishop of Melnik, secretary of the Holy Synod. The…

by Fr. George Tsahakis Dear Clergy & Parish Council Members, With spring approaching, our communities have requested support in key parish areas that help them grow and prosper. Toward that aim, your Parish Council members are invited to network and exchange ideas that will challenge and support your efforts. On Saturday, March 21, our Atlanta…

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The Israeli ambassador to Greece, Yossi Amrani, this week referred to his recent visit to the semi-autonomous monastic community of Mt. Athos, in northern Greece, during an interview with Greece’s national news agency. Amb. Amrani referred to an utterly unique experience, praising Mt. Athos as a “capsule”, as he said, of untouched natural beauty, history, culture, art…

The Orthodox Church in Russia continues to exercise an active role in ongoing discussions regarding constitutional revision, with the Patriarchate of Moscow reiterating its position in favor of the addition of a reference to God in the new Russian constitution. In revisiting the issue, the chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for Church Society and…

Peaceful protest rallies continued over the weekend in the small Adriatic country of Montenegro against a controversial law passed last month, which the Orthodox Church in the country considers as a thinly veiled attempt by the Montenegro government to seize many of its properties and relics. More than 25,000 people gathered on Sunday in the…

The Patriarch of Romania, His Beatitude Daniel, issued a homily over the weekend, where noted that only prayer conducted with humility is received by God, speaking on the occasion of the pre-Lenten period leading up to the Great and Holy Week of Easter. His Beatitude, the Primate of the Romanian Orthodox Church, also referred to…

The western Australian city of Perth will be the latest location on the island continent to host a conference of Orthodox youth, an initiative by the Archdiocese of Australia, which has the blessing of the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I. The year 2020, in fact, has been dedicated to youth and…