The new staffroom that will allow professors to socialise and prepare their lessons was opened at ‘Patriarch Justinian’ Faculty of Orthodox Theology in Bucharest during a blessing service held by His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel on Tuesday. The inauguration took place in the presence of the faculty staff and students. Addressing those present, Patriarch Daniel referred…

On June 27, 2019, with a blessing of Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate department for external church relations (DECR), the Interreligious Working Group for Humanitarian Aid to the Syrian Population under the Presidential Council for Cooperation with Religious Associations held its 8th meeting at the DECR grand hall. The meeting was…

On June 27-28, 2019, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate department for external church relations (DECR), continued his pilgrimage in the steps of St. Paul. Passing through Drama, Metropolitan Hilarion paid a visit to Metropolitan Pavlos of Drama, saw the Cathedral of the Transfiguration under construction and other churches and church establishments…

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The discovery of a baptismal font during the restoration work of the Church of the Nativity in the biblical city of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank will pave the way to learn more about the history of the church, announced on Saturday, June 22, Ziad al-Bandak, head of the Presidential Committee for the Restoration…

  In Kosovo and Metohija, a memorial service for the fallen was held on Thursday in the courtyard of the St. John the Baptist Orthodox Church in the village of Zaton, in the Belo Polje district. The service was attended by the Serbian Orthodox Bishop of BuDI-mlija-Niksic, His Grace Ioannicus.

  The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, on Thursday attended the inauguration of an ethnography section at the Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum in the Sultanahmet district. The event was also attended by Turkey’s tourism and culture ministry, as well as the local prefect.

  Members of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece’s Holy Synod concluded their sessions on Friday, with Church hierarchs briefed on the overall outlay provided by the Church for humanitarian work, such as the allotment of a stipend to families with at least three children in the border province of Thrace – the latter being…

  The enthronement ceremony for the new Archbishop of Australia, His Eminence Makarios, is set for Saturday morning – local time – at the Cathedral of the Annunciation of Our Lady, in the Sydney suburb of Redfern. Numerous Orthodox hierarchs from around the world have already arrived in Australia for the enthronement ceremony. The Ecumenical…