To honor the important work that many charities do, in 2012 the United Nations decided to nominate an annual International Day of Charity as an official day of recognition and celebration on September 5. The reason the date was chosen is because it is the anniversary of the death of Mother Teresa of Calcutta. This…

  A feature is posted today on the pages of the Orthodoxia news agency featuring the Panagia Kakaviotissa Chapel, which is located atop a mountainous cave on the northeast Aegean island of Limnos, and near the village Evgati. Orthodox monks from the nearby island of Aghios (saint) Efstratios arrived on the bigger isle in the…

  Chinese authorities recently announced an expansion of a controversial law against proselytizing or imposing one’s faith on minors in the country. Essentially, Beijing now aims to outlaw Sunday schools and other education programs by Churches in the country, and by extension, to even prohibit baptisms of minors. In many cases, police have already pasted…

  Discussion on the issue of “Theology in the Education System: The Road towards Formulating a Personality”, was held at the Russia Today news agency’s headquarters, with the participation of the Metropolitan of Volokolamsk, His Eminence Hilarion. The Metropolitan, who also heads the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external Church affairs, declared that our era now…

  Nearly 180 Roma pupils in the Pata Rat settlement were recently supplied with rucksacks, school supplies and religious textbooks – part of efforts by the local Romanian Orthodox Church to keep children at risk in classes. The materials were collected and allocated as part of an initiative by the Orthodox Metropolis of Cluj and…

  Reactions arose this week in Greece following a decision by the Hellenic Data Protection Authority (HDPA), an independent watchdog authority in the country, which ruled that the listing of a secondary pupil’s religious affiliation and citizenship on diplomas, certificates and on a ministry IT system is unconstitutional. The authority also claimed that the listing…

  Instances of intolerance and jihadi-fuelled religious fanaticism continued to be reported around Europe this year. In April, caretakers at a local cemetery and Catholic chapel in a small Italian small city covered crucifixes, ostensibly in an attempt to “…not offend” people of other faiths, the newspaper Il Giornale reported. The result was political outrage…

September 4, 2019 – the Supreme Church Council of the Russian Orthodox Church began its session at the Supreme Church Council Hall of the Cathedral Church of Christ the Saviour. The session is chaired by His Holiness Kirill, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia. The Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church addressed himself to the…

St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary [SVOTS] has announced a job opening for a full-time librarian for the Seminary’s Father Georges Florovsky Library. The position opened September 1 following the retirement of longtime Seminary Librarian Eleana Silk. Silk had worked for SVOTS since 1985. The new librarian will take charge of the Florovsky Library and be…