The Patriarch of All Romania, His Beatitude Daniel, this week received the US ambassador to the Romania, Adrian Zuckerman, at the Patriarchal seat in Bucharest. Amb. Zuckerman referred to a great honor, on his part, to serve as the US envoy to Romania, the country of his birth. He also expressed a desire to cultivate…

The Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, His Holiness Kirill, on Thursday received the visiting President of Moldova, Igor Dodon. The meeting was attended by ambassador of Moldova to the Russian federation, Andrei Neguta, and the chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for Church’s Society and Mass Mediа Relations, Vladimir Legoida. According to reports, the…

The Archbishop of Thyateira & Great Britain, His Eminence Nikitas, received a pleasant surprise earlier this month, when he visited the south England port city of Southampton, where he was greeted, among others, by a young girl dressed in the tradition attire of the eastern Aegean island of Kalymnos, from where the Archbishop hails. His…

The months-old Greek government’s intent to raise spending, by 28 percent, for public investments undertaken by the tourism ministry, comes amid strengthened cooperation between the relevant ministry and the culture ministry, on one hand, and the Churches of Greece and Crete, on the other, in order to boost religious tourism and pilgrimages to the country….

The Church today venerates the memory of Ignatius the God-Bearer, or Theophorus, the second Bishop of Antioch. A disciple of St. John the Theologian, and a successor of the Apostles, St. Ignatius wrote many epistles to the faithful, strengthening them in their confession and preserving for us the teachings of the holy Apostles. Brought to…

The Head of the Sebastia Diocese of the Greek Orthodox Church in Jerusalem Archbishop Atallah Hanna was reportedly hospitalised yesterday after being poisoned by chemical substances, according to Quds TV. Reports said the Archbishop was rushed to hospital after an Israeli gas canister was fired into his church in Jerusalem. He is expected to make…

Thousands of supporters of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Montenegro are expected to attend a protest rally on Saturday in Niksic against what the church calls a plot to rob it of its property. Tensions in Montenegro could be heightened after the Serbian Orthodox Church holds an assembly and a protest rally in Niksic on…

St. Nicholas, a bishop recognized as a saint in the Orthodox world, was remembered by the Russian Orthodox community Thursday in Turkey’s Mediterranean city of Antalya, where his tomb is believed to be located. The saint is more internationally known as the inspiration for Santa Claus. Georgiy Sergeev, Turkey’s representative of the Moscow Patriarchate, presided…

Authorities in Greece recorded 591 acts of violence against spaces of religious significance in 2018, an increase of 6 percent compared with the year before that, though incidents against Jewish spaces almost doubled. According to an annual report published on Thursday by the Ministry of Culture and Religious Affair’s special secretariat, the overwhelming majority (596…