The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, met with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Tuesday in Abu Dhabi, as the Primate of the Ecumenical Throne is in the Gulf State to participate at the annual “Human Fraternity” meeting, while the Greek premier arrived for official contacts with the United Arab…

  Greek Deputy Foreign Minister Kostas Vlassis traveled to the United States this week. While in New York City, the Greek minister, who holds the expatriate Greeks’ portfolio, will meet with Greece’s general consul and will also tour the under-construction St. Nicholas Orthodox Church at Ground Zero, in Manhattan. In Washington DC, the Archbishop of…

  An ongoing public information campaign by the Russian Orthodox Church to dissuade would-be mothers from choosing abortion, and, in general, to promote motherhood, appears to be generating results. Participants at a recent conference heard that recent surveys show an increasing number of people in Russian consider the prospect of an abortion as something negative…

  The Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia, His Holiness and Beatitude Ilia II, this week touched on the coronavirus outbreak, which has dominated headlines and global concern since the beginning of the year. His Holiness and Beatitude referred to another “test”, one that aims to reinforce faith, as he said.

  Members of the Christian Association of Women of Paralimni, on Cyprus, arrived in Greece this week for a pilgrimage, with the first site on their itinerary being the Grammatikos site in eastern Attica prefecture, northwest of Athens proper. While there, pilgrims from the association “St. George”, attended a trisagion memorial service for the victims…

This year, 2020, with the blessing of HAH the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, and with heartfelt gratitude to God as well as a deep sense of pastoral responsibility, we will celebrate the 120th anniversary of Orthodoxy in the Korean Peninsula (1900-2020). During the year 2020, with the help of God, there will be various commemorative events…

On Saturday, February 1, 2020, His Eminence Archbishop Nikitas ordained to the Priesthood the Revd Protodeacon Dr Peter Scorer, at St Anne’s Chapel in Exeter. The newly ordained Priest will continue serving the Community of Exeter, which is part of the 20 Parishes of the Exarchate of Orthodox Parishes of Russian Tradition of the Ecumenical…

His Eminence Jonah Lwanga officiated the closing ceremony of tet Orthodox children’s camp which was for days being held at St Antonios parish Mmonde, Luweero District. In attendance were Children from St Luke- Kabonge, St Dimitri- Bwetyaba, St Mary of Egypt orphanage school and St Antonios parish the hosts. Te camp was made possible with…

The Diocesan Assembly of the Archdiocese of Bucharest of the Romanian Orthodox Church met in its annual meeting on Saturday, February 1 under the chairmanship of His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel, discussing, among other things, the Archdiocese’s social and philanthropic activities over the course of the previous year. In particular, he noted that social and philanthropic…