Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, Theodoros II is expected to visit Cyprus to attend the annual camping of the Youth of the Orthodox Churches in the Middle East, that takes place in Cyprus. The initiative gathers together young people from various countries, including Egypt. Patriarch Theodoros will visit the Archbishopric camp site…

Throughout the Diocese of Slavonia, memory prayer services for the killed by the Ustashas in 1942 were peformed. Prayer gatherings took place in Kusonje, Japaga, Branesci, Dereza and Tornj. On August 13, 1942, the Orthodox Serbs of the Slavonian town of Kusonje were taken by the Ustashas and brought into the church of St. Great…

16 years passed since the suffering of Serbian children at Gorazdevac by August 13, 2019. Ivan Jovicic and Panto Dakic were killed by automatic weapons while swimming in the rural Bistrica River during a summer holyday. Four more children were seriously injured. No perpetrators were found and legal investigation process was suspended in 2010. On…

Watch the Divine Liturgy that took place at the Cathedral of the Annunciation of the Theotokos in Athens, Greece on Sunday, August 18, 2019: 

Recalling that Romania is known as ‘the Garden of the Mother of God’ on Thursday, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel invited believers to take care of this garden and cultivate ‘the flowers of faith, hope and humble and merciful love’. ‘We are in the Garden of the Mother of God, which is full of monasteries and…

Bishop Nikodim: “Let’s gather around the holy churches that our noble ancestors built in almost impossible conditions and left us as a testament!” On the occasion of the celebration of the four centuries of existence of the church of the Translation of the relics of Saint Nicholas, Their Grace Bishops: Longin of Novogranica and Midwestern…

Romania Archbishop Dr. Timothy (Sevic) of Arad received a high decoration of the Serbian Orthodox Diocese of Timisoara On the feast of the Dormition of the Mother of God celebrated according to the new calendar on August 15, 2019, on the occasion of the church patron saint day of the Sacred Monastery of Hodos-Bodrog, Divine…

On August 15, 2019, the Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, the Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine Epiphanius met with First Vice President of the Ukrainian World Congress Stefan Romaniw and Director of the UWC Mission to Ukraine Serhiy Kasyanchuk. “During the working meeting, the parties discussed holding joint events to expand cooperation between…

Bulgarian archaeologists have discovered the tomb of a previously-unknown 14th-century aristocrat, a descendant of the Byzantine Palaiologos dynasty, at the Kaliakra fortress on Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast, the National History Museum said on August 15. The tomb was found by a team headed by the National History Museum’s director, Associate Professor Boni Petrunova, who has…