‘We are blessed when we see young people in the church getting to know each other better, praying together, chanting together, discovering spiritual and cultural values every year with new freshness,’ the Patriarch of Romania said on Thursday being welcomed in Craiova for the opening of the International Meeting of Orthodox Youth. Patriarch Daniel was…

The Berlin Philharmonic, one of the world’s top orchestras, opened the 2019 edition of the George Enescu Festival at Bucharest’s Palace Hall in the presence of His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel. The twenty-fourth edition of “George Enescu” International Festival is the most complex so far and is defined by diversity and balance, as regards the structure…

Bishop Iakovos of Miletoupolis has been appointed by Australia’s Greek Orthodox Archbishop Makarios, as the inaugural Bishop of Brisbane. It is the second time he has made history in Australia; Bishop Iakovos was the first ever Australian-born to be ordained as an Orthodox Bishop. Writer Dean Kalimniou took to Facebook to pay tribute to the…

Elder Arsenie (Boca), perhaps Romania’s most beloved elder of the 20th century, will be considered for canonization by the Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church. Meeting under the chairmanship of His Eminence Metropolitan Laurențiu of Sibiu and Transylvania at the headquarters of the Diocese of Deva and Hunedoara yesterday, the Metropolitan Council of the…

On Thursday morning, August 23/ September 5, 2019, the Patriarchate celebrated the Apodosis of the Feast of the Dormition, namely the completion of nine days after the actual Feast (August 15/28) and at the same time the return of the icon of the Dormition from Theotokos’ Tomb to the Metochion-chapel of Gethsemane, opposite the Church…

Archaeologists believe they might have discovered the true location of the town of Emmaus, where Jesus was said to have first appeared before two of his disciples after His resurrection. As reported by Haaretz, scholars on a Franco-Israeli expedition in Kiriath Yearim that began in 2017 have found a massive, ancient wall of a Hellenistic-era fortress…

Several churches, aid groups and private individuals across the U.S. are now coming together to help the Bahamas recover from the devastation of Hurricane Dorian that Deputy Prime Minister Peter Turnquest said will require “hundreds of millions, if not billions” to rebuild. “We have had catastrophic damage to both the public and private infrastructure that…

The religious restrictions imposed by the government of China are some of the harshest on earth. However, they don’t only affect adult believers — many of the most restrictive policies aim to stifle the faith of young followers of Jesus. “One of the rules that have always been in their law is that you cannot…

A court in Kosovo’s capital, Pristina, convicted four people on September 4 for planning terrorist attacks on international peacekeepers, Orthodox churches, and night clubs as well as abroad in France and Belgium. They were handed prison terms ranging from one to 10 years. Two others were ordered to serve shorter terms for failing to inform…