Greece’s tourism ministry general secretary, Constantinos Loulis, spoke to the Orthodoxia News Agency and journalist Maria Giachnaki this week regarding the ministry’s initiative to further boost religious tourism to the east Mediterranean country — referring, in fact, to the millennia of cultural and spiritual wealth accumulated by the Orthodox monasteries and convents in the country….

Patriarch Theophilos hopes that the Council of Primates in Amman can become a preparatory ground for further cooperation in maintaining the unity of Orthodoxy. Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem addressed the Heads of the Local Orthodox Churches with a letter in which he gave details of the future Synaxis of Primates in Amman. The full text of…

Metropolitan Emmanuel of France traveled to Riyadh, at the invitation of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, in order to chair the Board of Directors of the International Centre for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue (KAICIID), following his recent election as president. The Secretary General of KAICIID and the Advisor to the Court of His Royal Highness,…

Opposition MPs have called for the dismissal of the managers of RTCG over a documentary about the top bishop in the country that they called inflammatory and ‘shameful’. Parliamentarians in Montenegro from the main opposition Democratic Front, DF, have demanded the resignation of the management of the public broadcaster, RTCG, They made the call after…

The floor of the Basilica of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem is going under renovation. The Foundation Centre for the Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage (La Venaria Reale) in Turin and the Department of Antiquity Sciences of La Sapienza University in Rome are overseeing the project which has been agreed by…

On 17 February 2020, the presentation of the Serbian version of Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk’s book “What Orthodox Christians Believe In” took place at the crypt of the St. Sava Cathedral in Belgrade. The translation was made by Bishop Antonije of Moravici, rector of the Moscow Representation of the Serbian Orthodox Church and published in…

The Church needs to increase the prayers for riddance of coronavirus, for the people and the administrations of its countries due to the epidemic of coronavirus, Metropolitan Sergy, the patriarch’s exarch of Southeast Asia, said. He gave his blessing for a special prayer service. “Now that the offices of many establishments are temporarily closed and…

Continuing his missionary journey to the Holy Diocese of Malawi, on Saturday 15 February 2020, His Beatitude Theodoros II, Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, accompanied by His Eminence Daniel Metropolitan of Aksum and His Grace Fotios Bishop of Malawi, arrived at the Holy Church of the Resurrection, in the Bayani district of…

The funeral Mass of Fr Godfrey O’Donnell (80) the only Irishman to be ordained a priest of the Romanian Orthodox Church in Ireland, took place on Monday at St Columba’s Church, Blakestown Way, in West Dublin. A total of 28 Romanian Orthodox priests from Europe and Ireland took part in the Mass, The Iris Time reports. From Derry, Fr O’Donnell…