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…

A resolution to a decades-long ecclesiastical thorn in Australian Orthodoxy appears coming to an end. A scheduled visit of the Archbishop of Australia, His Eminence Makarios, next week to the schismatic St. Spyridonas church in Clayton, Melbourne, is expected to mark the parish’s return to communion with the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia. At the…

The Church today commemorates New Hieromartyr Seraphim, the bishop of the Phanar in Greece. In another feature today on Orthodoxia Νews Αgency, the Monk Kirillos speaks about the 18th century monastery of the Nativity of the Theotokos, better known as the Koroni, or crown, monastery. The monastery, located in a verdant spot in the rugged Agrafa…

A photo feature is posted today on the Orthodoxia News Agency showing the subterranean Chapel of St. Barbara, which is located some 240 meters beneath the earth’s surface in a disused salt mine in Romania. Construction was completed in 1992, and comprised the first church built in a salt mine in Europe. Candlesticks and the…

The Church today venerates the memory of Barbara the Great Martyr. St. Barbara was from the city of Heliopolis, in ancient Phoenicia, and lived during the reign of the Roman Emperor Maximian. The daughter of the idolater Dioscorus, she refused to renounce her faith, suffering torture and finally beheading — all at the instigation of…