His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia has sent the following greeting to His Beatitude Metropolitan Rastislav of the Czech Lands and Slovakia with the anniversary of his enthronement:   Your Beatitude, beloved brother and concelebrant at God’s Throne: I wholeheartedly greet you with the anniversary of your enthronement. Being the youngest among…

Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, sent a message of greetings to His Beatitude Patriarch John X of the Great Antioch and All the East on the anniversary of enthronement.   Your Beatitude, Please accept my most sincere greetings with the anniversary of your accession to the…

His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia has sent the following greeting to His Beatitude Patriarch John X of Antioch and All the East:   Your Beatitude, beloved brother and concelebrant at God’s Altar: I cordially congratulate you on the 7th anniversary of your ascent to the old see of the Patriarchs of Great…

A service of thanksgiving prayer, accompanied by the pealing of church bells, will be held on February 28 2020 at 10am in celebration of the 150th anniversary of the issuing of the decree by the Ottoman Sultan on the Bulgarian Exarchate, the Bulgarian Orthodox Church’s governing body, the Holy Synod, has announced. At the close…

Know that there are eight evil thoughts that bring about all that is vile: those of sensuality, lechery, love of money, anger, inappropriate grief, despondency, vainglory and pride. All these wage warfare against every person. The eight evil thoughts If you want to defeat sensuality, cultivate restraint, have fear of God and you will overcome it….

The Russian Orthodox Church allows that its synodal departments could be headed by women, even secular ones. Recently, for the first time in the Vatican, a woman was appointed to a leading position when Francesca Giovanni became the Deputy Minister of the Holy See for Relations with States. “In the future, I think there are…

The Holy Cross Church of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Vinnitsa had great cause for celebration recently, as relics of St. Nicholas that had been stolen from the church on January 31 were returned. “We express our gratitude to the National Police of the Vinnitsa Province for their prompt response to the crime and…

On 9th February 2020, the Sunday of the Publican and Pharisee, the Orthodox Church enters the period of Triodion and is beginning the preparation for the Great Lent. The first hierarch of the Orthodox Church of Moldova, Metropolitan Vladimir, celebrated the Divine Liturgy in the Holy Trinity Parish in the town of Pushkino, Moscow Region. Accompanied…

Novak wears a cross from the Hilandar Monastery as his lucky charm, while the blessing he received from late Serbian Orthodox Patriarch Pavle is especially important to him Novak Djokovic’s mother, Dijana Djokovic, spoke in an interview with Sport Klub about her son and many details from his life. She revealed little-known details from Nole’s…