The Bulgarian Orthodox Patriarchate this week organized a seminar for journalists covering ecclesiastical issues. In Tbilisi, the Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia, His Holiness and Beatitude Ilia II, met with Georgian expatriates. The meeting was organized at the initiative of the Diaspora House organization. Georgian emigrants, who arrived from the US, Canada, Spain, Germany, Greece, Italy…

The Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem on Tuesday was removed from UNESCO’s list of endangered world heritage sites, following extensive restorations at the Holy Site. The Church was named as a UNESCO world heritage site in 2012 and placed on its endangered list the same year due to its poor condition. UNESCO said Church…

New Democracy (ND) party president Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Wednesday pledged that his center-right party will not proceed with any revisions to the iconic Article III of Greece’s constitution, assuming the party comes in first in Sunday’s general election and forms a government. The specific article, which defines relations between the Greek state and the Autocephalous…

Award-winning actor, talented musician and devout Orthodox Christian Jonathan Jackson will be the special guest speaker at the 2019 Young Adult League Conference to be held over Labor Day Weekend in Long Beach, CA. On Friday, August 30, Jonathan will be the special guest speaker and he will share his personal journey to Orthodoxy, living…

Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia, His Holiness and Beatitude Ilia II hosted Georgian emigrants. The meeting was organized at the initiative of the Diaspora House organization. Georgian emigrants, who arrived from the US, Canada, Spain, Germany, Greece, Italy and other countries, thanked the Georgian Patriarch for hosting and underlined that the Georgian communities and summer schools…

It is a 17th century icon of St. Phanourios. This Cretan icon by Silvestros Desos is based on a 15th work by the great Cretan iconographer Angelos Akotantos, also known for being the first to sign his icons. The icon acquired by the Louvre must be restored. Saint Phanourios, celebrated on August 27, is the…

The Bishop of Raška-Prizren Teodosije served today holy liturgy at St. Demetrius in Kosovska Mitrovica thus providing spiritual support to the faithful people in this area. In a conversation with the clergy and the believers, the Bishop was briefed on the latest humanitarian situation, which, according to the testimony of the faithful, is the worse…

The new Archbishop of Australia, His Eminence Makarios, will arrive in Melbourne on Aug. 3, a metropolis that hosts one of the biggest ethnic Greek communities outside Greece. Makarios was enthroned as the Primate of the Greek Orthodox Church in Australia last weekend during an enthronement ceremony in the Archdiocese cathedral of the Annunciation of…

An Orthodox priest in the Medan region of northern Sumatra, Fr. Chrysostomos Manulu, has overseen for the past 18 years a major humanitarian and missionary effort, establishing a hospital, 10 Orthodox churches, six schools and a seminary that teaches ancient Greek, among others. Fr. Chrysostomos details the missionary work in the specific Indonesian region in an…