German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier will pay an official visit to Georgia on October 6, the Georgian president’s press office reports. Steinmeier will visit the country with his wife Elke Budenbender and hold his first meeting with Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili at the Atoneli Presidential Palace. He is also scheduled to meet with Georgian PM Giorgi…

The 6th International Interreligious Youth Forum began its work in Manas, Republic of Dagestan, on 30 September 2019.  It was organized by the Russian Orthodox diocese of Makhachkala, the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of the Republic of Dagestan (SAMRD) the Council of Jewish Communities in Dagestan, and the Ministry for ethnic policy and religious affairs of…

The agenda of events for 2020 and the possibilities to enhance cooperation were discussed, on Thursday, Oct. 3, 2019, at a meeting between CROCEU and EPP representatives, in Brussels. Mr. Romain Srasser, Head of the Intercultural and Religious Dialogue Unit of the EPP Group in the European Parliament presented the current work and future projects…

His Beatitude Hieronymos II, Archbishop of Athens and All Greece celebrates on 04 October 2019 his 38th anniversary of episcopal consecration. His Beatitude Hieronymos II born Ioannis Liapis in Oinofyta, Boeotia, in 1938, is a graduate of the Faculty of Philosophy and of the Faculty of Theology of the University of Athens and holds degrees…

Not a single Orthodox church has recognized the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, according to Russia’s top diplomat. The United States is pressuring Orthodox churches in the Middle East and North Africa into recognizing a new church structure in Ukraine — the so-called Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU), Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told the 16th…

A delegation of the Holy Community of Mount Athos, consisting of Hieromonk Nikodemus Lavriotis, Monk Nikodemos Agiopaulitis and Hieromonk Sisoes Xenophontinos, worked with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew on Wednesday, October 2, in order to determine the final details of the program of the visit of His All-Holiness to Mount Athos, which will be from October 19…

If God sees that the intellect has entirely submitted to Him and puts its hope in Him alone, He strengthens it, saying: ‘Have no fear Jacob my son, my little Israel’ (Isa. 41:14), and: ‘Have no fear: for I have delivered you, I have called you by My name; you are Mine. If you pass…

On Friday, 4 October, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs for Diaspora Greeks, Antonis Diamataris, will carry out a visit to Jerusalem, where he will meet with His Most Godly Beatitude Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem. During his stay, he will visit the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the Yad Vashem World Holocaust Remembrance Center,…

His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I visited Stockholm, where he presided over the celebrations commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the establishment of the Holy Metropolis of Sweden and All Scandinavia, the 130th anniversary of the construction of the St. George Cathedral of Stockholm – which is currently undergoing the first phase of its complete exterior…