His Eminence Metropolitan Jonah Lwanga today presided over Holy liturgy in commemoration of the Elevation of the Venerable and Life-Giving Cross. The staff at Holy Cross Orthodox Mission Hospital Namungoona gave their offerings in celebration of the feast day of the Hospital.  

Reading Saint Helen, the mother of Saint Constantine the Great, when she was already advanced in years, undertook, in her great piety, the hardships of a journey to Jerusalem in search of the cross, about the year 325. A temple to Aphrodite had been raised up by the Emperor Hadrian upon Golgotha, to defile and…

One of the two Archangels flanking Romania’s largest mosaic depiction of the More Spacious than the Heavens Icon of the Mother of God was successfully installed on the half-dome that stands above the altar of the National Cathedral in Bucharest. The members of the Church Painting Committee of the Romanian Patriarchate spent their Friday analysing…

Conservations works at Agia Triada Basilica mosaics and Agios Philon church, in Karpasia, in the Turkish occupied part of Cyprus, have been completed and a ceremony to mark their completion will take place on September 21st, in the presence of a high-ranking EU official. Greek Cypriot co-chair of the bicommunal Technical Committee on Cultural Heritage,…

At the initiative of and with the blessing of its hierarch, His Eminence Archbishop Casian, the Romanian Archdiocese of the Lower Danube again undertook the tradition of donating backpacks and important school supplies to needy children at the beginning of the school year. According to the diocesan website, in the week before school started, 4,000…

Archbishop Elpidophoros of America appointed Archimandrite Athenagoras Ziliaskopoulos chaplain at Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology in Boston, in charge of the worship life of the School and the orderly functioning of the Chapel. It is the first appointment of Archbishop Elpidophoros at the School of Theology, which he has officially announced that he…

One hundred and seventy-nine clergymen, monks and laypeople sent an open letter to the Primate and episcopate of the Orthodox Church of Greece, expressing their concern and alarm over the uncanonical granting of autocephaly to the Ukrainian schismatics. The text of the letter is given below. The Greek original with the list of signatories can…

The OCU and the UGCC are moving in the same direction, both stand on a patriotic basis but the key to their unification lies not in Ukraine, said Metropolitan Epiphany. It is necessary to look for common ground, which in the future may develop into good cooperation, for which the OCU and the UGCC plan…

Priests in an aircraft have “love-bombed” the Russian city of Tver with holy water, in an effort to purge its citizens of drunkenness and casual sex. Father Alexander Goryachev has boarded a plane every September since 2006 to mark the Russian Orthodox Church’s Day of Sobriety, and flown over Tver armed with icons in the…