March 2020 will be celebrated as the Month for Life 2020, “For Life. For Parents. For Children” throughout Romania and the Republic of Moldova. It will culminate on Saturday, March 28, with the March for Life 2020. Thousands participated in the March for Life in 600 cities and towns throughout Romania and Moldova last year,…

  March 2, 2020 The Beginning of the Holy and Great Lent “You may freely eat of every tree of the garden” (Genesis 2:16) The Most Reverend Hierarchs, the Reverend Priests and Deacons, the Monks and Nuns, the Presidents and Members of the Parish Councils of the Greek Orthodox Communities, the Distinguished Archons of the…

  The disciple’s question Father, I suffer terribly from rheumatism, and I am afraid that it is from demons. Tell me if this is so. What is it, then, that I see in dreams, on the wall, some wild beasts? I am very upset because I cannot fast and I am forced to eat a…

Following the initiative for dialogue and reconciliation announced by the Patriarchate of Jerusalem, and His Beatitude Patriarch Theophilos III in November 2019, the Amman Fraternal Familial Gathering was hosted today in the capital of Jordan, with attendance of Primates and Delegations from various Orthodox churches. The purpose of the gathering was to renew dialogue and…

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  The Patriarch of Bulgaria, His Holiness Neophyte, this week received the new ambassador of Turkey to the country, Aylin Sekizok. The ambassador thanked the Primate of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church for receiving her, while expressing her joy over what she called the good and friendly relations between the two countries. nbsp;  

  Turkish mass daily Hurriyet this week took offense with high-profile statements by the Republic of Cyprus’ foreign minister, Nikos Christodoulides, as the latter directly decried the looting and alteration of the Christian cultural legacy in areas of Cyprus still occupied by the Turkish military. An editorial in the newspaper claimed that Christodoulides’s statements were…

  Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Wednesday visited the Ethnological Museum of Thrace, in the northeast border city of Alexandroupolis. While there, the Greek premier praised the institution as a testament of the wider Evros River region, which has for centuries been a beacon of Hellenic culture.  

  Notre Dame University in the United States this week announced that the Ecumenical Patriarch, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, will deliver the principal address and receive an honorary degree at the renowned university’s 175th commencement ceremony, and specifically on May 17. In a statement, Notre Dame president, Rev. John Jenkins noted that “…Patriarch Bartholomew…