The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, this week greeted 25 general consuls of a same number of countries with consulates in the Bosporus metropolis, during their visit to the Patriarchate’s Holy Trinity Monastery on the small Marmara Sea isle of Halki. The Ecumenical Patriarch received the foreign diplomats at the…

  Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis arrived in Cairo today for the seventh Egypt-Greece-Cyprus summit meeting. While in the Egyptian capital, Mitsotakis visited the St. George Orthodox Cathedral in the city, where he was welcomed by the Auxiliary Bishop of Babylonos, His Grace Theodoros.

The permanent Holy Synod of the Church of Greece continued to convene this week, as Friday looms as the day when Church hierarchs will vote to fill the vacancies of the Metropolises of Fthiotida, Kalavryta and Limnos-Aghios Efstratios. As previously reported, an extraordinary Holy Synod session has been scheduled for Saturday to discuss an expected…

  The Church venerates the memory of two women saints, Pelagia and Taisia. Sts. Pelagia and Taisia were pagans living in unrestrained prodi-GA-lity, who led many to perdition, before finding and wholly accepting Christ as their Lord and Savior.

  Hundreds of believers attended the Divine Liturgy celebrated in Romanian language last week at the Blachernae Church in Constantinople where St Andrew the Fool for Christ witnessed the Theotokos entering the church, surrounded by angels and saints. The feast of the Protection of the Theotokos celebrates the appearance of the Mother of God at…

  On October 4, 2019, the Moscow Synodal Choir concluded its tour in Germany with a recital of church music at the Catholic church of St. Joseph in Dusseldorf. The choir sang classical church compositions by the 19th and 20th century Russian composers, among them G. Sviridov’s “Holy Love”, “N. Vedernikov’s “In Flesh Thou Didst…

The Metropolitan Cathedral in Iași, Romania has entered a new era of its existence. After 30 years of extensive consolidation and restoration work, the church, dedicated to St. Parascheva, the Presentation of the Lord, and St. George, has finally opened without scaffolding, fully revealing its grandeur and beauty, and just in time for the annual…

  The Ecumenical Patriarch, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, this week sent his personal best wishes for a speedy recuperation to the ailing Metropolitan of Kos and Nisyros, His Eminence Nathaniel.

  Orthodoxy and Hellenism continue to persevere in one of the remote corners of sub-Saharan Africa. Archimandrite Timotheos Duba, of the Alexandria Patriarchate, continues to minister to a handful of Orthodox faithful at the parish of St. Nicholas, in the eastern Congo town of Bunia. The parish over the weekend organized a soup kitchen for…