One of the priorities of the months-long Greek government appears to be a strengthening of relations with expatriate Greek communities around the world, with the relevant foreign ministry also taking into consideration the very significant role that the Orthodox Church plays in maintaining the Diaspora’s links with the motherland. New Greek Deputy Foreign Minister Costas…

The Church today venerates the memory of Hieromartyr Haralambos. This saint was a priest of Christians in Magnesia, in western Asia Minor. He contested during the reign of Alexander Severus in the early 3rd century. At the time of his martyrdom, St. Haralambos was described as in a very advanced age. He died for his…

Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, sent the following letter of congratulation to His Beatitude Metropolitan Rastislav of the Czech Lands and Slovakia on the anniversary of his enthronement:   Your Beatitude: Please accept my cordial congratulations on the anniversary of your ascension to the Metropolitan throne…

His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia has sent the following greeting to His Beatitude Metropolitan Rastislav of the Czech Lands and Slovakia with the anniversary of his enthronement:   Your Beatitude, beloved brother and concelebrant at God’s Throne: I wholeheartedly greet you with the anniversary of your enthronement. Being the youngest among…

Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, sent a message of greetings to His Beatitude Patriarch John X of the Great Antioch and All the East on the anniversary of enthronement.   Your Beatitude, Please accept my most sincere greetings with the anniversary of your accession to the…

His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia has sent the following greeting to His Beatitude Patriarch John X of Antioch and All the East:   Your Beatitude, beloved brother and concelebrant at God’s Altar: I cordially congratulate you on the 7th anniversary of your ascent to the old see of the Patriarchs of Great…

A service of thanksgiving prayer, accompanied by the pealing of church bells, will be held on February 28 2020 at 10am in celebration of the 150th anniversary of the issuing of the decree by the Ottoman Sultan on the Bulgarian Exarchate, the Bulgarian Orthodox Church’s governing body, the Holy Synod, has announced. At the close…

Know that there are eight evil thoughts that bring about all that is vile: those of sensuality, lechery, love of money, anger, inappropriate grief, despondency, vainglory and pride. All these wage warfare against every person. The eight evil thoughts If you want to defeat sensuality, cultivate restraint, have fear of God and you will overcome it….

The Russian Orthodox Church allows that its synodal departments could be headed by women, even secular ones. Recently, for the first time in the Vatican, a woman was appointed to a leading position when Francesca Giovanni became the Deputy Minister of the Holy See for Relations with States. “In the future, I think there are…