The Orthodox Church of Georgia this week announced a closely watched decision not to participate in a Pan-Orthodox meeting being organized in Amman, Jordan later this month by the Patriarch of Jerusalem, His Most Godly Beatitude Theophilos III. In a statement, the Patriarchate of Georgia said the reason that it cannot participate with a…

  A Greek ministry participated with its own pavilion at an international tourism exhibition this week in Sofia, with the aim being to promote and showcase religious tourism and pilgrimages to northern Greece. Macedonia-Thrace Minister Theodoros Karaoglou represented Athens at the exhibition, where he met with local reporters and tourism sector executives. He noted that…

The Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, His Divine Beatitude Theodoros II, celebrated his name day in the far-off southern Africa country of Malawi, and surrounded by the children of the Orthodox parish of St. Catherine, or St. Ekaterini in Greek. The parish is located in one of the most destitute and polluted sites…

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Sharp reactions accompanied the latest Turkish provocation against the island republic of Cyprus, in the eastern Mediterranean, in the wake of a top Turkish official’s threat to re-open the ghost town of Varosha to illegal Turkish settlement and exploitation. Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay blatantly claimed that Varosha belongs to the illegal Turkish Cypriot regime, before…

The Episcopal Council of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Montenegro, led by His Eminence Metropolitan Amfilohije of Montenegro, has submitted proposed amendments to the new “Law on Freedom of Religion or Belief and the Legal Status of Religious Communities” that has caused waves of protests throughout the country since it passed in late December. Several…

His Eminence Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk met with Minister for Innovation and Technological Development Mr. Nenad Popovic at the hovernment building in Belgrade. spc.rs

Often, husbands come and ask us how to behave toward their wives. Of course, this topic is, in the last analysis, a personal theme between you and your spiritual father (priest) but some general problems can be explained which, if resolved, we could avoid a lot of quarrels. The wife must know that she is…

Tbilisi, February 17, Interfax – Georgian Orthodox Church said it has decided not to take part in a meeting between the primates of local Orthodox Churches in Jordan on February 26, proposed by Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem to discuss problems faced by the Orthodox world. The reason the Georgian Church decided not to attend…