The Russian television station Kul’tura is set to broadcast a documentary entitled “Orthodoxy and Albania”, on the occasion of the 90th birthday of the Archbishop of Tirana and All Albania, His Beatitude Anastasios. The documentary, produced by the Moscow Patriarchate’s department of external Church relations and its chairman, the Metropolitan of Volokolamsk, His Eminence…

In Russia, His Holiness Kirill this week participated in events commemorating national unity day, joining Russian President Vladimir Putin and other dignitaries in laying a wreath at the monument of national heroes Kuzma Minin and Dymitr Pożarski in Red Square.

The First Secretary of the Metropolis of Messinia, in extreme southwest Greece, Archimandrite Filippos Hamaryias, this week visited the French naval support vessel Loire, representing the Metropolitan of Messinia, His Eminence Chrysostomos, and following an invitation by the vessel’s commander, Stéphane Le-Ven The vessel docked at the port of Kalamata after participating in a military…

  Members of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece’s permanent Holy Synod convened for a second straight day on Tuesday, while no announcement was made after Monday’s session. The Holy Synod’s sessions will conclude on Wednesday. Although the issues on the agenda are considered as routine, the Holy Synod convened in the wake of a…

An inspiring event was held at the Athens Concert Hall – the Megaron – on Monday evening to unveil a commemorative edition of the book “Monastic Wisdom; The Letters of Elder Joseph the Hesychast”, published by the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi on the occasion of the 60 years since the Elder’s repose. Numerous…

A pro-government daily in Turkey, Yeni Safak, this week again raised the specter of the Hagia Sophia being re-converted into a mosque. According to a front-page headline in the mass circulation newspaper, Turkey’s council of state is expected to rule on whether the iconic Church of the Holy Savior of Chora, part of an eponymous…

On 4 November 2019, the feast day of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia celebrated the Divine Liturgy at the Patriarchal Cathedral of the Dormition of the Mother of God in the Moscow Kremlin. That same day a national holiday– National Unity Day is…

The pilgrimage center of the Moscow Patriarchate has published a preliminary list of dioceses that the Church does not bless its faithful to visit on pilgrimage. Following the Bishops’ Council of the Greek Orthodox Church on October 12, the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church announced that it would maintain communion with those hierarchs…

There was a young monk/brother who was puffed up with pride about his abilities. He was very strong, with a lot of dexterity and, hence, he could work a lot and, also, do a lot of prostrations. The fathers counseled him that he didn’t do well to be so proud—but he continuously answered them, saying,…