The Metropolitan of Philippopolis, His Eminence Nifon, a representative and Exarch of the Patriarch of Antioch and All the East at the Moscow Patriarchate, this week referred to a Pan-Orthodox assembly being convened next week in Amman, Jordan, by the Patriarch of Jerusalem, His Most Godly Beatitude Theophilos III. When asked if the Patriarch of…

The Serbian Patriarchate’s Bishop of Zvornik and Tuzla, His Grace Fotije, again expressed his concern over the future of the Serbian Orthodox communities in Bosnia-Herzegovina. In a statement, he warned that “…a significant reduction has been recorded in the Serbian population of Bosnia-Herzegovina. Serbs in all parts of the federation have been reduced to the…

Greek culture minister Lina Mendoni this week toured monuments and archaeological sites in the prefecture of Hania, on the large island of Crete. Among others, Mendoni, a noted archaeologist and former ministry official, visited the Venetian Walls in Hania’s harbor, as well as the remnants of the St. Nicholas chapel within the medieval fortress. During…

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…