Forty-two hierarchs of the Holy Synod of the Georgian Patriarchate convened on Thursday in Tbilisi under the chairmanship of the Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia, His Holiness and Beatitude Ilia II, to consider what the Church considered as insulting statements by the Reverend Petre, the now former Metropolitan of Chkondidi, against the Catholicos-Patriarch. Reverend Petre was…

  A new book was issued this week by the Moscow Patriarchate’s synodic department for charity, dealing with the issue of alcoholism and detoxification. The book describes the reasons behind alcohol addiction and offers theological interpretations, including excerpts of addresses by the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, His Holiness Kirill, along with suggestions to…

  The Archbishop of Albania, His Beatitude Anastasios, this week received members of delegation from Athens’ Professional Chamber of Commerce. Still in Europe, the proto-presbyterian of the Ecumenical Throne, Fr. Nicholas Xenos, has assumed the post of General Archieratic Commissioner for the Holy Metropolis of France. Fr. Nicholas, who hails from the Ionian island of…

A massive advertising campaign continues on the world’s foremost social media platforms to promote tourism to Turkey, a campaign that has included repeated and admiring references to Hellenic and Orthodox Christian monuments and artifacts in the country, but ones that it envelopes with the term “Turkish treasures”. In a related development, Turkish Culture and Tourism…

The Church today venerates the memory of Cosmas and Damian, the Holy Un-mercenaries of Asia, and their mother Theodota. Born in southeast Asia Minor in the third century AD, they became well-known physicians, healing illnesses and maladies without requesting payment. Because of this, they are called “Unmercenaries”, or “silver-less”.

The permanent Holy Synod of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece will convene on Monday, amid the 163rd synodical period, in order to consider issues on the agenda.   Photo: Christos Mponis

Greece’s relevant education and religious affairs minister on Friday said the ministry will proceed with revisions in a legal framework covering the teaching of religious classes in public primary and secondary schools, following the announcement of a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights, a day earlier, on the current procedure that allows parents…

A new documentary film on the Orthodox Church in Pakistan will premier in Moscow tomorrow. Prominently featured in the film is Fr. Joseph Farooq, a favorite OrthoChristian contributor. The film by Leonid Savin, “Punjabi Cross,” dedicated to the first community of the Russian Orthodox Church in Pakistan, was shot this year in the city of Sargodha,…

They will sign a document on being included in the jurisdiction of the Russian Orthodox Church. A delegation of the Archdiocese of Russian Orthodox churches in Western Europe will visit Moscow on Friday to sign a document on being included in the jurisdiction of the Russian Orthodox Church, Archbishop John (Renneteau) of Dubna told TASS…