Orthodox faithful and institutions in Albania this month have expressed criticism and even anger over a state-run restoration program for historic cathedrals and chapels around the southeast European country, whose population for nearly four decades endured extreme isolation, repression and poverty under a totalitarian communist regime. The criticism underlines that, in many cases, work is…

A feature posted on the pages of the Orthodoxia News Agency this week details the actions and initiatives of the Holy Archdiocese of Athens to support and back motherhood and families, in general. The Archdiocese of Athens, the largest and most prominent of Orthodox Metropolises in Greece, grants benefits to eligible families, as well as…

The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, extended his best wishes on Wednesday to the Patriarchate’s Metropolitan of Imvros and Tenedos, His Eminence Kirillos, who was hospitalized in the Dardanelles region of European Turkey on Tuesday. According to an announcement by the Ecumenical Patriarchate, His All Holiness was personally briefed over the…

The Church today commemorates the removal of the relics of Ignatius the God-bearer. St. Ignatius was a disciple of St. John the Theologian, and a successor of the Apostles. He became the second Bishop of Antioch. St. Ignatius wrote many epistles to the faithful, strengthening them in their confession, and preserving for us the teachings…

Stories of death and annihilation are usually those associated with the Holocaust. But included are also those stories of humanity, when people across the continent risked their own lives to help a friend, a neighbor — even a stranger. Included in these stories are several high-profile Greek Orthodox Church leaders who risked their own faithful,…

On 26 January 2020, Sunday after the Theophany, His Eminence Vladimir, Metropolitan of Chisinau and all Moldova, celebrated the Divine Liturgy in the parish of St. John the Baptizer in Peresecina, Orhei. The metropolitan was assisted at the service by archpriest Vadim Cheibas, Metropolitan Secretary, archimandrite Filaret (Cuzmin), Monk Superior of the Monastery of Capriana,…

On Friday, January 24, His Eminence Metropolitan Joseph hosted the new Consul General of Lebanon in New York, Mrs. Abir Taha Audi, and her husband Mr. Dori Audi, at Archdiocese headquarters in Englewood, New Jersey, in order to welcome them to the United States and to get to know them better.​ Mrs. Audi earned the…

A tourist fell from the guard-rail of Bagrati Temple in Imereti region. The tourist, aged 18 is a citizen of Russia. Eyewitnesses claimed that the tourist was taking photos. He was taken to Intervention Medical Center. Head of the clinic Maia Rukhadze said that the patient had trauma in his head.   — Source: 1tv.ge

On the edge of the Earth, you are ready to expect anything… but even this church, surrounded by penguins, looks a bit surprising! The Trinity Church, built in 2004, is the southernmost Russian Orthodox church in the world. It’s located on Antarctica’s island of Waterloo, on the territory of the Russian polar station Bellingshausen (named…