The devil uses a similar technique with us when we want to attack something. So, we must know how to defend. It depends on us to do it. By searching the inspired Scripture thoroughly, we shall find this to be a usual habit, as we may say, of the evil one. At the beginning, he…

On August 8, 2019, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate department for external church relations (DECR), with a blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, arrived in the Philippines. At the Manila airport, the DECR chairman was met by Metropolitan Sergiy of Singapore and South-East Asia, Patriarchal Exarch…

On August 9, 2019, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate department for external church relations (DECR), who is in the Philippines with a blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, met with the Hon. Alan Peter Cayetano, Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Philippines. They discussed…

Numerous clerics, theology professors and mourners bid a last farewell to the reposed Metropolitan of Tyroloi and Serention, Panteleimon, who was buried in a cemetery behind the main Church at the Holy Patriarchal & Stavropegic Monastery of Vlatadon, in Thessaloniki’s Ano Poli district.  

The Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church, His Holiness Irinej, presided at a Divine Liturgy at the Ružica Cathedral within the Belgrade Fortress, on the Feast Day of St. Paraskevi, which the Serbian Church commemorates based on the Julian liturgical calendar. The Patriarch noted that “… This Church is a place of prayer and repentance….

A memorial service was held this week at the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Tbilisi, Georgia, for the fallen during a five-day war with Russia in August 2008.

The Orthodox Diocese of Kisumu in western Kenya continues its very prolific missionary work, despite the difficult conditions it faces. Among others, a youth seminar attended by dozens of young people was held for three days this week in the wider Nyanza province, Kenya’s Great Lakes region. Participants also had the opportunity to meet and…

Archbishop of Australia, His Eminence Makarios, this week assured pupils and teaching staff at the St. John’s Greek Orthodox College in Melbourne that the preschool to grade 12 academy will continue its unhindered operation. Thousands of second- and third-generation Greek-Australians have graduated from the specific academy over the decades. During his pastoral visit to the…

Chinese officials continued to exercise censorship on well-known literary classics that include references to Christianity. The latest instances include the removal of the word “God”, “Bible” and “Christ” from the well-known novel ” Robinson Crusoe”, and the short story “The Little Match Girl”.