Tufenkian Charitable Foundation, Artsakh’s Ministry of Culture, Youth and Tourism and Armenian Apostolic Church recently completed the restoration of Saint Stepanos church in the village of Hochants in liberated Kashatagh region. Today, during the official opening ceremony of the church, Pargev Archbishop Martirosyan, the leader of Artsakh Diocese of Armenian Apostolic Church has re-consecrated the…

After a long school year, and end of the year finals and exams there is no better way to celebrate and begin the summer adventure than with your best friends and a well-organized church camp. Our congregation here at St. Sava Serbian Orthodox Church in St. Petersburg Florida knowing how much both our children and…

Emotions ran high on Wednesday afternoon with the arrival of the icon of the Panaghia Paramythia, known as Vatopedi Mother of Consolation or Comfort, at the Cathedral of the Arch-angels in the southern Greece coastal town of Nea Epidavros. The miraculous 8th century icon of the Virgin Mary was conveyed from Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi by the Elder Archimandrite…

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Experts from Russia’s culture ministry arrived this week in Sofia, Bulgaria to assist in efforts to conserve the historic frescoes at the St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, the patriarchal church of the Patriarch of Bulgaria. The delegation was dispatched to Sofia after a proposal by Russian Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev, who had visited Bulgaria last March….

The Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church, His Holiness Irinej, this week bestowed the ecclesiastical medal of the Order of St. Sava to the Russian ambassador in Serbia, Alexander Chepurin. A relevant ceremony was held at the Patriarchal seat, in the presence of members of the Patriarchate’s Holy Synod and Russian diplomats.  

The Patriarch of All Romania, His Beatitude Daniel, presided at the blessing of the new administrative facilities of the theological seminary in the Romanian capital.

The Archbishop-elect of Australia, His Eminence Makarios, this week met with Greece’s general consul in Australia, Christos Karras, and the embassy’s commercial liaison, Katia Gigiza. On Tuesday, His Eminence received the Metropolitan of Paphos, His Most Reverend Georgios. The latter will represent the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Cyprus in Makarios’ enthronement ceremony, set for Saturday,…

The Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, Ieronymos, on Wednesday received visiting Russian Orthodox Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, the head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations (DECR). His Eminence Hilarion conveyed the best wishes of Russian Patriarch, His Holiness Kirill, to the Primate of the Church of Greece. Hilarion is on an…