My dear spiritual Children, While I’m still în charge of my faculties, I’d like to give you some advice. From when I was a child, I was always sinning. When my mother sent me to watch the animals up on the mountain, (my father had gone to America to work on the Panama Canal for…

The feast day of Saint Sebastian of Jackson was liturgically celebrated at Saint Sava Church in Jackson, northern California, on Saturday, November 30/17, 2019. This parish, the oldest one of the Serbian Orthodox Church in America, built in 1894, is the home of its founder’s relics. This gathering was presided by Bishop Maxim of Western…

On Dec. 4, 2019, His Holiness the Bulgarian Patriarch Neophyte became an honorary member of the Slavic Literary and Art Academy. The award ceremony took place during the presentation of the international anthology “Hleb nash nashushtnii” (which in English would be translated – Our daily bread), which included poems by famous Bulgarian and foreign writers…

On the eve of the Normandy format summit, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with representatives of churches and religious organizations of Ukraine. The Head of State thanked the hierarchs for their joint address to the inhabitants of the temporarily occupied territories, as well as for the work the Holy Fathers do for Ukrainians. In the context…

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has invited Russian President Vladimir Putin to visit Belgrade to attend an opening ceremony of the St. Sava Cathedral, which is scheduled for the end of 2020. “I would like to thank the Russian side for their aid in building a magnificent Cathedral of St. Sava. Its central part will be…

On Dec 4, 2019, Feast of St. Barbara, His Grace Bishop Silvester Kisitu presided over the Holy Mysteries of Baptism and charismation at St. Nectarios Orthodox Community in Akonybedo – Gulu district were over 60 souls joined to the Orthodox Christian Faith. The Bishop was assisted by the Area priests, the Dean Gulu Fr. Francis,…

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A 24th meeting between members of a Russian Orthodox Church work group with Russian foreign ministry officials took place on Tuesday in Moscow, at the ministry. The Church delegation was led by the Metropolitan of Volokolamsk, His Eminence Hilarion, while the ministry delegation was headed by Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Yevgeny Ivanov. Hilarion is…

The Archbishop of Tirana and All Albania, His Beatitude Anastasios, on Monday Dec 2, 2019 received the Metropolitan Bishop of Montenegro and the Littoral, His Eminence Amphiliochios, at the old Archdiocese building in Tirana. The meeting comes in the wake of last week’s devastating earthquake in central coastal Albania, which caused the death of scores…