The Belarusian Orthodox Church does not intend to prohibit religious processions and other festivities due to the spread of coronavirus, head of the Information Department of the Belarusian Orthodox Church (the Belarusian Exarchate of the Moscow Patriarchate) Archpriest Sergey Lepin told Interfax. “The church is taking safety measures to prevent the coronavirus epidemic, including by…

The Greek Church leadership requested an exemption from coronavirus curfew measures in a letter to Education & Religion Ministry officials on Thursday, to carry on liturgies on a normal schedule, behind closed doors. Before the curfew, the government had allowed only emergency services such as funerals, with a restricted number of attendees, and church visits…

He didn’t want the flowers to go to waste– so Fr. Eugene Pappas thought of a great way to use them while sharing hope with his neighborhood. This past Sunday at Three Hierarchs Greek Orthodox Church in Brooklyn– and churches throughout the world– would have been the Feast of Stavroproskineos, or the veneration of the…

  In fact, what is normal in a world in which one flies East, another flies West and another flies over the cuckoo’s nest? According to the ways of this world, if a normal man (that is, a sinful man) would go into a psychiatric hospital to get rid of the consequences of his sins,…

The night vigil to the glory of the Mother of God, our Lady Theotokos and the Saint hieromartyr miracle worker Charalambos of Magnesia, for healing and protection against the COVID-19 pandemic will be served this Friday, 27th March (Gregorian Calendar), starting with 21:00 (Athos, Constantinopole, Jerusalem, Alexandria, time). The whole of Mount Athos community will…

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  The Autocephalous Church of Greece’s Metropolitan of Nea Ionia and Philadelphia, His Eminence Gabriel, spoke this week to the Orthodoxia news agency, underlining that without the Holy Eucharist there is no Church. At the same time, His Eminence acknowledged that the state’s ban on the partaking of Holy Communion was extreme, but possibly necessary….

  The Russian Orthodox Church has left open the possibility of enacting even stricter measures for its places of worship and affiliated institutions in the vast country, due to the coronavirus pandemic. According to the Metropolitan of Volokolamsk, His Eminence Hilarion, the Moscow Patriarchate is examining whether to limit the number of worshippers in cathedrals…

  The Patriarch of All Romania, His Beatitude Daniel, on Wednesday reminded in his sermon, on the occasion of the Feast of the Annunciation that the Theotokos, the Virgin Mary, is a source of great comfort and strength during these trying times. His Beatitude noted that “… The Virgin Mary has the heart of a…