The first Sunday of Great Lent, called the Sunday of the Triumph of Orthodoxy, was celebrated at the Nativity of the Lord Cathedral in Chisinau with the Divine Liturgy officiated by Metropolitan Vladimir of Chisinau and all Moldova. Assisted at the service by the Cathedral clergy, the arch-pastor prayed for the unity of the Church…

His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and Archbishop Chrysostomos of Cyprus, together with many hierarchs celebrated the Sunday of Orthodoxy at the Ecumenical Patriarchate at the Patriarchal Church of Saint George. — Source: theorthodoxworld.com | Photos: Ecumenical Patriarchate / Nikos Manginas

On February 28, at Tbilisi Theological Academy and Seminary a public lecture, titled “Power and Those Born by Revolution” was held. It was delivered by the member of the Napoleonic International Society, PhD in History, Professor Ivane Menteshashvili. The Rector of Tbilisi Theological Academy and Seminary, PhD in Theology and Philology, Professor, Protopresbyter Giorgi Zviadadze,…

Several churches in Bethlehem including the Church of the Nativity have been temporarily closed for 14 days according to an order from the Palestinian Ministry of Health after some suspected cases at a Bethlehem hotel, RFI reports. Imad Shahadeh, head of the local health directorate, told AFP that a group of Greek tourists had visited the…

The Sunday of Orthodoxy is the first Sunday of Great Lent. The dominant theme of this Sunday since 843 has been that of the victory of the icons. In that year the iconoclastic controversy, which had raged on and off since 726, was finally laid to rest, and icons and their veneration were restored on…

The 13th edition of Days of Orthodox Cinema will open on March 10 with the film Portaitissa of Donetsk by director Natalia Batraeva. The film tells the story of the life under fire of the nuns who find meaning in the service of God and people during the civil war in Ukraine. The screenings – on the initiative…

On Friday evening of the First Week of Lent, the First Stasis of the Salutations to the Most Holy Theotokos was read at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, as part of the Service of the Small Compline and the Canon of the Akathist. This contrite service was officiated by H.H.B. the Patriarch of Jerusalem…

Palestinian officials announce state of emergency as number of infections rises to 16. The city of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank has been placed in lockdown after the first Palestinian cases of the new coronavirus were discovered there and authorities announced a state of emergency. Palestinian Health Minister Mai al-Kaila said on Friday a…

“I am not angry at all, I’ve forgiven everyone from my heart and there is no hardness in me. There is patience in me because I learned how to be patient after having to leave my children behind.” These are the gracious words of Aasia Bibi, the Christian mother-of-five who spent nearly eight years on…