On Saturday, 17 August, His Eminence Metropolitan John of Pergamon gave a lecture at the University of Notre Dame’s London Global Gateway on the topic of “Patristic Anthropology and the modern world”. His Eminence Archbishop Nikitas was represented by the Very Revd Archimandrite Chrysostomos Tympas. Present were His Eminence Metropolitan Kallistos, Very Rev Prof. Andrew…

On Saturday August 17, 2019, His Grace Bishop Silvester paid his second pastoral visit to the Holy Resurrection Orthodox Church in Namayingo district where he officiated the mystery of Holy Baptism. This parish is under the spiritual guidance of Rev. Fr. Josephate Ojambo who also serves as the Secretary General of the Diocese of Gulu…

He called on the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres to be rigorous and also inspired by the principles of justice. The Cypriot Archbishop Chrysostomos, at the end of the mass at the Chrysoroyiatissa Monastery, referred to the Cyprus issue, addressing the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres. “I believe we and the Turkish-Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci,…

Thirty new conservation projects of Cyprus’ cultural heritage, throughout the island, are in the pipeline, with Takis Hadjidemetriou, the Greek Cypriot Head of the Technical Committee on Cultural Heritage, saying that the bicommunal team is moving ahead with its programming for 2020. Speaking to CNA, Hadjidemetriou also announced that an official ceremony will be held…

Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, Theodoros II is expected to visit Cyprus to attend the annual camping of the Youth of the Orthodox Churches in the Middle East, that takes place in Cyprus. The initiative gathers together young people from various countries, including Egypt. Patriarch Theodoros will visit the Archbishopric camp site…

Throughout the Diocese of Slavonia, memory prayer services for the killed by the Ustashas in 1942 were peformed. Prayer gatherings took place in Kusonje, Japaga, Branesci, Dereza and Tornj. On August 13, 1942, the Orthodox Serbs of the Slavonian town of Kusonje were taken by the Ustashas and brought into the church of St. Great…

16 years passed since the suffering of Serbian children at Gorazdevac by August 13, 2019. Ivan Jovicic and Panto Dakic were killed by automatic weapons while swimming in the rural Bistrica River during a summer holyday. Four more children were seriously injured. No perpetrators were found and legal investigation process was suspended in 2010. On…

Watch the Divine Liturgy that took place at the Cathedral of the Annunciation of the Theotokos in Athens, Greece on Sunday, August 18, 2019: 

Recalling that Romania is known as ‘the Garden of the Mother of God’ on Thursday, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel invited believers to take care of this garden and cultivate ‘the flowers of faith, hope and humble and merciful love’. ‘We are in the Garden of the Mother of God, which is full of monasteries and…