The Holy Synod of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church, under the chairmanship of His Holiness Patriarch Irinej of Serbia, on Thursday announced that it will seek recourse to the constitutional court in Montenegro in order to render a recently passed law in the small Adriatic country as unconstitutional. The contentious law obliges religious institutions…

A 21-year-old Christian convert in Iran, well known for highlighting the plight of persecuted Christians in the Middle East country, remains missing nearly three weeks after her arrest. According to media reports, Fatemeh Mohammadi, also known as Mary, was among those arrested earlier this month in central Tehran. At the time of her arrest, street…

The pages of the Orthodoxia News Agency on Friday host another devotional lecture by the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi, and specifically on the subject of “The Presence of the Panaghia, the Virgin Mary, on Mt. Athos”. The lecture, part of the Sunday weekly “Lessons from Athos”…

The Greek Orthodox Cathedral of Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, in Tanta, Egypt, reopened on Friday, during a ceremony in the presence of the Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, His Divine Beatitude Theodoros II. The historic cathedral served the faithful of a once flourishing ethnic Greek community, roughly midway between Cairo and Alexandria….

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived today in Kiev for an official visit to the Ukraine, where, among others, he met with the Metropolitan of Kiev and All Ukraine, His Beatitude Epiphanius, the Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. The meeting took place on Friday, January 31, as part of Pompeo’s visit to Kyiv,…

An annual event held by the Greek Orthodox parish of the Holy Apostles, in Dortmund, Germany, in commemoration of the Feast Day of the Three Hierarchs, this year was dedicated to the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I. The event was attended by representatives of several religious communities in Germany, along with…

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 28 January 2020, a session of the Board of Trustees of the Chinese Patriarchal Metochion at the church of St. Nicholas in Golutvino district of Moscow took place at the parish house of the church of “Joy to All Who Sorrow” icon of the Mother of God, Bolshaya Ordynka str. Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk,…

Tennis superstar Novak Djokovic is through to the Australian Open final after beating an injured Roger Federer in a semi-final showdown on Rod Laver Arena last night. Currently ranked number 2 in the world, Djokovic player is a well-known Orthodox Christian, who regularly wears a wooden cross around his neck. He’s known for praying through…