A great event was held on Sunday at the Ćelije Monastery of the Archangels Michael and Gabriel in honor of several significant anniversaries in the life of the Serbian Orthodox Church. The Serbian Church has been celebrating the 800th anniversary of its autocephaly throughout the year, and it was nited on Sunday with the 125th…

The Church has joined the ‘Let’s do it, Romania!’ campaign and summoned teams of young students from the theological seminaries across Romania to help out with the clean-up day. Over 180,000 Romanians, most of them students but also volunteers of all ages, have said yes to this year’s national environmental action. On Saturday, Sept. 21,…

On the Repose of the Holy Apostle and Evangelist John, His Beatitude John X, Patriarch of Antioch and all East, celebrates his name day. His Beatitude John X was born in 1955 in the city of Lattakia, Syria. His father Mounah Yazigi was from Lattakia, a teacher of the Arabic language. His mother Rosa Moussi…

The former Romanian football player Mihai Neșu held a teleconference call about success from a Christian perspective with the over 1,400 young people who gathered in Iași at the end of August for a local Youth Meeting. The former FC Utrecht defender stressed that Orthodoxy is ‘the perfect map to succeed in life,’ adding that…

On Wednesday, September 12/25, 2019, the Holy and Sacred Synod of the Patriarchate of Jerusalem chaired by H.H.B. Father and Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos decided the following; Appointed the Most Reverend Archbishop Aristovoulos of Madaba Archivist and President of the Pastoral Committee of the Russian-speaking flock, while the recently appointed Archimandrite Artemios will remain an…

Catherine Holder, a Hellenic College senior from Centennial, Colorado, has been named the winner of the Hellenic College Humanities Paper Prize. The prize is awarded annually by the faculty of the Literature and History program. Catherine won the award for her outstanding work in two areas within the field of humanities, scholarship and creative writing,…

Theologists are reportedly proposing that the study of religion in schools should be divided between chapters that seek to develop students’ Orthodox Christian conscience and ones that seek to educate them on religion. The proposals were made after the reforms introduced by the previous government in 2017, which stated that religion must not be taught…

With the blessing of the new College Dean, His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia, St Andrew’s College held its third biennial Theology Symposium on 20-21 September, 2019. The theme of this year’s Symposium was: ‘The Importance of Christology for the 21st Century’ and the two keynote speakers were, the Very Reverend Professors Demetrios Barthrellos and Gerald O’Collins. It…

  One of Russia’s oldest surviving churches has reopened after a two-year process of restoration. The 13th-century Church of St. Nicholas on the island of Lipno was built after the Mongol invasion, and it was painted soon after its construction in 1292. Unique frescoes of the 13th century and later paintings have survived to the…