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The Israeli ambassador to Greece, Yossi Amrani, this week referred to his recent visit to the semi-autonomous monastic community of Mt. Athos, in northern Greece, during an interview with Greece’s national news agency. Amb. Amrani referred to an utterly unique experience, praising Mt. Athos as a “capsule”, as he said, of untouched natural beauty, history, culture, art…

The Orthodox Church in Russia continues to exercise an active role in ongoing discussions regarding constitutional revision, with the Patriarchate of Moscow reiterating its position in favor of the addition of a reference to God in the new Russian constitution. In revisiting the issue, the chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for Church Society and…

Peaceful protest rallies continued over the weekend in the small Adriatic country of Montenegro against a controversial law passed last month, which the Orthodox Church in the country considers as a thinly veiled attempt by the Montenegro government to seize many of its properties and relics. More than 25,000 people gathered on Sunday in the…

The Patriarch of Romania, His Beatitude Daniel, issued a homily over the weekend, where noted that only prayer conducted with humility is received by God, speaking on the occasion of the pre-Lenten period leading up to the Great and Holy Week of Easter. His Beatitude, the Primate of the Romanian Orthodox Church, also referred to…

The western Australian city of Perth will be the latest location on the island continent to host a conference of Orthodox youth, an initiative by the Archdiocese of Australia, which has the blessing of the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I. The year 2020, in fact, has been dedicated to youth and…

One of the priorities of the months-long Greek government appears to be a strengthening of relations with expatriate Greek communities around the world, with the relevant foreign ministry also taking into consideration the very significant role that the Orthodox Church plays in maintaining the Diaspora’s links with the motherland. New Greek Deputy Foreign Minister Costas…

The Church today venerates the memory of Hieromartyr Haralambos. This saint was a priest of Christians in Magnesia, in western Asia Minor. He contested during the reign of Alexander Severus in the early 3rd century. At the time of his martyrdom, St. Haralambos was described as in a very advanced age. He died for his…

Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, sent the following letter of congratulation to His Beatitude Metropolitan Rastislav of the Czech Lands and Slovakia on the anniversary of his enthronement:   Your Beatitude: Please accept my cordial congratulations on the anniversary of your ascension to the Metropolitan throne…