On 5 December 2019, His Beatitude Tikhon, Metropolitan of All America and Canada, Primate of the Orthodox Church in America arrived in Moscow to take part in the celebration of the 25th anniversary of the OCA Representation. The OCA delegation includes Archbishop David of Sitka and Alaska; Archimandrite Andrei (Hoarşte); bishop-elect of Cleveland, auxiliary to…

The Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow received an anonymous bomb threat on Friday, an informed source told Interfax. “The city’s emergency services are heading to the site,” the source said. This is the second such threat received by the cathedral this week, it said. Several courts in Moscow and the office of a…

Representatives of Eastern and Oriental Orthodox churches met Dec. 4, at the headquarters of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America. The meeting of the Joint Commission of Eastern and Oriental Orthodox Churches in the United Stated (Joint Commission) was the continuation of a first encounter that took place on October 8, 2019 at the Armenian…

We learnt enough in order to have confidence in what we think we know but we did not learnt enough in order to accept something else which might contradict our narrow views. Our times are times of mediocrity, of passion for inculture, of laziness, of inability to tackle a task and finish it and of…

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The chairman of the Russian Orthodox Church’s Department for Society and Mass Mediа Relations, Vladimir Legoida, this week reiterated the Moscow Patriarchate’s opposition to a draft bill regarding domestic violence. Legoida, who is also the acting head of the Patriarchate’s press service, echoed a previous statement by the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, His…

A fire caused half a million dollars worth of damage to the Orthodox Church of the Nativity of Christ in Port Adelaide. The cause of the fire is under investigation. According to local media, religious relics and icons inside the church are believed to have been retrieved by emergency personnel.

The issue of the completion of the iconic St. Nicholas Cathedral at “Ground Zero” in Manhattan, at a spot where a destroyed Orthodox chapel by the same name once stood next to the Twin Towers, again surfaced this week, with the Archbishop of America, His Eminence Elpidophoros, referring to issue. He said “… The name…

The Church today venerates the memory of Nicholas the Wonderworker, Archbishop of Myra. The saint lived during the reign of Constantine the Great, and reposed in 330 AD. After a pilgrimage in his youth to Jerusalem, he returned to Myra, and was ordained bishop. He became known for his abundant mercy, providing for the poor…