On April 6, 2020, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Konstantinos Vlasis met, in his office, with the Exarch of the Holy Sepulchre, Archimandrite Damianos, to discuss the procedure for transporting the Holy Light from Jerusalem to Greece. Due to the pandemic, and to safeguard public health, the procedure will differ from the practice of previous…

At the beginning of the Sixth week of Lent, on the eve of the Feast of the Annunciation, the Serbian Orthodox Church Charity organized another charitable action within a series of actions to support the users of the Church Soup Kitchen. Since the start of emergency, about two thousand users of the Church Soup Kitchen…

Οrthodox Metropolitanate of Montenegro and the Littoral is active in supporting the Roma people through numerous manifestations and humanitarian actions, such as in clothes and shoes for poor Roma families, not only in Podgorica, capital of Montenegro, but in Pljevlje as well, where our Metropolitante helped many Romas. They also get help in food and…

The charity organization of the Diocese of Zvornik-Tuzla “The Mother of God the Three-Handed” in co-operation with the Church Community of Tuzla and the Youth Association Renewal distributed protective masks to its fellow citizens  in Tuzla at the  Monument to Mesa Selimovic and Ismet Mujezinovic on April 7, 2020. The action was also supported by Tuzla parish…

The Church of Cyprus will back strict compliance with the lockdown aimed at containing the spread of coronavirus, Archbishop Chrysostomos assured President Nicos Anastasiades on Thursday. Government spokesman Kyriakos Koushos said that the president and the archbishop had met at the Presidential Palace and discussed the government’s decision yesterday to extend the lockdown until the…

At this difficult time, when the governmental authorities are taking all possible measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus infection, I call upon the hierarchs, clergy, monastics and laypeople to intensify your prayer to the Lord for the deliverance of people from the harmful epidemic, and I call upon the arhpastors and pastors to…

His Eminence Metropolitan Evangelos of New Jersey has issued an Archpastoral Message. Read the full text down below: April 9, 2020 To the Devout Orthodox Christians of the Parishes/Ecclesiastical Communities of the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of New Jersey My Beloved in the Lord, As our Nation, our Holy Orthodox Church, our Metropolis and local Parish…

The Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Albania has donated this Thursday 1,000 masks, 1,000 gloves and 110 liters of disinfectant to the Local Police Directorate (DVP) of Tirana. Police officers along with medical staffs are on the front line of the combat against COVID-19 epidemic. Underlining that they got the chance to provide the protective materials…

The state has made difficult decisions in order to allow no exceptions to the gathering of people and the transmission of the coronavirus, Civil Protection Deputy Minister for Crisis Management Nikos Hardalias said during a daily briefing on Thursday.In this context, Hardalias said, speaking after the Health Ministry’s spokesman on novel coronavirus Sotiris Tsiodras, the…