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Debate continued for a second day in Greece’s Parliament over constitutional revision, with Church-state relations and the issue of a civil oath the focus of Tuesday’s session. Speaking before the plenum, the rapporteur for ruling New Democracy (ND), Costas Tzavaras, rejected proposals by the main opposition SYRIZA party concerning a separation of Church and state,…

  The initiative “Week for Life” will once again take place in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg. The initiative aims to sensitize public opinion over the issue of abortion, as well as to offer support to women and their families so that the former continue their pregnancy and raise their offspring. The initiative has the…

  The Archbishop of Australia, His Eminence Makarios, was greeted this week at the St Euphemia Greek Orthodox College, in the Sydney suburb of Blackstone, by young student Iliana Tzanetakou, who played the Crete lyra and sang traditional Cretan songs for the Archbishop, who hails from the large Aegean island. Makarios met and talked with…

  The Archdiocese of Athens is set to establish an independent IT and digital applications service, with the relevant decision already published in the Greek government gazette. The service will represent the Archdiocese in international and Greek fora and in events focusing on IT and telecoms applications, as well as in dealings with both the…

  The Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, His Beatitude Ieronymos, on Tuesday received the Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, His Most Divine Beatitude Theodoros II. The Primate of the Alexandria Patriarchate is currently visiting Athens. A day earlier, Theodoros was received by Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis at the Maximos Mansion government house….

  The number of Christians in China, the world’s most populous country, continues to grow, despite official discouragement in some parts of the vast country. China’s biggest printing house announced that the number of new Bibles printed in the country exceeded 200 million copies, and that is just for current year. Roughly half the Bibles…

  A ruling by the European Court of Human Rights this month, which stopped the deportation, from Switzerland, of an Afghan Christian convert, may serve as a precedent for the protection and rights of Christians in the Middle East and other countries where Christians face persecution. According to the court’s ruling, the Christian man would…

  Patron Saint-day of Novi Sad – The restoration of the church of Saint George the Great Martyr was marked with the Holy Hierarchal Liturgy and a solemn academy. His Grace Bishop Irinej of Backa officiated the Holy Hierarchal Liturgy with concelebration of His Grace Bishop Isihije of Mohacs and the clergy of the Diocese…