‘Profess your faith in deeds,’ Metropolitan Irineu of Oltenia said when he addressed the over four thousand young Christians who gathered in Craiova for the annual Meeting of Orthodox Youth (ITO 2019). The Metropolitan offered Jesus Christ as an example of humility, noting that ‘when He came to the world, He did not place Himself…

Over 4,000 young Christians from all across the world attended the opening ceremony of the Romanian Patriarchate’s annual International Meeting of Orthodox Youth (ITO 2019) at Mihai Viteazul Square in Craiova on Thursday, Sept. 5, 2019. Addressing those present was Patriarch Daniel who said that through faith, hope and love, young people form ‘a chalice…

LONG BEACH, CA – The Young Adult League (YAL) extended a very warm welcome to His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America at their 2019 conference which was organized by the Metropolis of San Francisco in Long Beach, CA. Archbishop Elpidophoros was met at the airport by Metropolitan Gerasimos of San Francisco, a group of clergy,…

he St. Panteleimon’s Monastery (Greek: Άγιος Παντελεήμων, Agios Panteleimon; Russian: Ρωσικό, Rossikon)) is one of the twenty monasteries located on the peninsula of Mount Athos in northeastern Greece. The monastery is on southwestern side of the peninsula. St. Panteleimon’s has been inhabited for the past one-hundred-plus years by monks of Russian origin and is referred…

The Secretary of Commerce of the USA, Wilbur Ross, visited the see of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in the Phanar today, Sunday, September 8, 2019, and was welcomed with the honors set forth in the Patriarchal Protocol. Secretary Ross was accompanied by his wife and the new US Ambassador to Ankara, David Satterfield, as well as…

His Grace Bishop Irinej of Eastern America celebrated on 5 September 2019, on the feast day of Holy Martyr Irenaeus of Lyon, the name day in the church of Saint Elephterios in New York City. His Grace Bishop Irinej officiated the Holy Hierarchal Liturgy with the concelebration of the clergy of the Diocese of Eastern…

Even though Christians can fast and pray, they can bear all kinds of evil in their hearts, which can only be avoided thanks to the fear of God, the UOC hierarch said. The modern world like the Titanic is plunged into abysses of filth, and only the Church and the family remain the last outpost…

His Grace Bishop Milutin of Valjevo consecrated a newly-built monastic residence in the Celije monastery belonging to a new church dedicated to Saint Sava, Saint Justin The Martyr and Saint Mary the Egyptian with the concelebration of the diocesan clergy and monks, as well as with prayerful presence of abbess of Celije Mother Glikerija and…

The General Assembly of the Archdiocese of Russian Churches in Western Europe, formerly an Exarchate of the Patriarchate of Constantinople, convened in Paris today under the chairmanship of Archdiocesan hierarch His Eminence Archbishop John of Chariopoulis. As previously reported, the clerical and lay delegates gathered to vote on the future of the Archdiocese, and the…