Reactions, including street protests, continued in the small Adriatic country of Montenegro on Thursday, a day after the new year commenced, in the wake of ratification of a law last week that the Orthodox Church there considers as extremely detrimental to its interests. The Metropolitanate of Montenegro and the Littoral, which is under the canonical…

A number of events will be held in the Montenegrin Metropolis of the Serbian Church in connection with the adoption of the anti-Church law that empowers the government to confiscate property from the Serbian Church. Among them, all the parishes of the Serbian Metropolis of Montenegro will ring funeral bells every two hours until the…

On Wednesday afternoon, December 19/2019, January 1/2020, after Vespers at the Monastic Church of Saints Constantine and Helen of the Hagiotaphite Brotherhood, the Service of the Holy Unction followed, as a preparation for the forthcoming Christmas Feast. The Service was officiated by H.H.B. our Father and Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos, with six Archbishops as co-celebrants,…

The New Year Day marked the beginning of the Solemn Year of Pastoral Ministry of Parents and Children and the Commemorative Year of Romanian Orthodox Philanthropists. Following the New Year Divine Liturgy presided over by His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel, the general secretary of the Holy Synod, His Grace Bishop Varlaam of Ploiesti, read out the…

His Eminence Metropolitan Evangelos of New Jersey has released his New Year’s Day Encyclical. Read the full text below: The Very Reverend and Reverend Clergy Esteemed Members of the Metropolitan Council, Esteemed Members of the Parish Councils, Philoptochos Sisterhood, Faculty and Students of the Catechetical and Greek Afternoon Schools, Directors and Participants of all Youth…

On Dec. 31, 2019, Bishop Silvester met with the priests in Northern Uganda, in which he even took them through a small insight on liturgical matters in the Orthodox Church. He emphasised on the issue of hard work, team work and as they serve responsibly in their respective parishes in this coming new year, as…

Οn the 1st day of the year 2020, His Grace Bishop Silvester presided over Holy Liturgy at St.Basil Orthodox Church in Gulu together with Priests of Gulu Deanary. Hundreds of Faithful turned up for τηε feast of their patron Saint St. Basil the Great. The Bishop called all to imitate the love and faith of…

Eternity cannot simply be an unchangeable substance, it cannot be like eternal self-sustaining law. Such eternity cannot be inexhaustible and creative. The fact that it is inexhaustible and creative comes from its interiority, which is one of a personal Existence. Eternity must include an inner dimension and freedom of the will. Only then can it…

Many put this question: If I don’t enjoy church, does that mean that I’m going to Hell? Well, this is a worrisome sign because the services are the preview of paradise …or rather they should be. So, the main problem is with us – with our distorted nature which doesn’t want to accept the types…