Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia, His Holiness and Beatitude Ilia II will bless the entrants today. The Georgian Patriarchate spreads information about it. The Patriarch will bless the entrants at the Holy Trinity Cathedral. Unified National Exams will start on July 1 and will last until the end of the month. – Source: 1tv

We insist on a new competition for the project for the renovation of Zone 4 “Golden Sofia” from the central city part. This is stated in a position of the municipal councillors of BSP “Left Bulgaria” in the Sofia Municipal Council. “The repairs of landmarks and main roads in the Sofia centre, which Sofia Municipality…

Every year, a lottery game is organized, with the benefits going to a selection of buildings in need of funds for repair and renovation. Saint Alexander Nevsky and Protection of the Mother of God Church in Biarritz is part of the 103 sites selected for the 2019 Loto du Patrimoine unveiled on June 11 by…

In a new Ancient Faith Ministries documentary titled “The Equal of Martyrdom,” Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick goes on pilgrimage to encounter Fr. Nicola Yanney, an early 20th century Orthodox missionary in America. Father Nicola was the first priest ordained by St. Raphael of Brooklyn, whose missionary territory included most of the Great Plains. Through interviews, research, and prayer in Kearney, Nebraska, Fr. Andrew explores…

The head of the OCU is convinced that the state of Universal Orthodoxy “basically depends on recognition of the OCU’s autocephaly”. Anyone who does not recognize the autocephaly of the OCU questions the whole mechanism by which other Churches received autocephaly. About this in an interview with Ukrinform said the head of the new religious…

On Saturday, June 2/15, 2019, the Saturday of Souls, the Patriarchate held the commemoration of those who have slept in the Lord, the Hagiotaphite Fathers of all past centuries, of the memorable Patriarchs, Archbishops, Hieromonks, Hierodeacons and Monks. For the repose of the souls of all the above, Vespers was held in the evening where…

Italian director Franco Zeffirelli, famed for operas, films and television, has died in Rome at the age of 96. Zeffirelli’s son Luciano said his father died at home at noon on Saturday. “He had suffered for a while, but he left in a peaceful way,” he said. Zeffirelli delighted audiences around the world with his…

His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America will be enthroned as the seventh Archbishop of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America on Saturday June 22, 2019 at 11:00 a.m. ET, at the Archdiocesan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in Manhattan (337 East 74th Street, NYC). Archbishop Elpidophoros was elected unanimously by the Holy and Sacred Synod…

At the meeting, Epiphaniy assured the nationalists that the autocephalous OCU is no worse than other Churches and is not subject to foreign centers. On June 13, 2019, “Metropolitan of Kiev and All Ukraine” Epiphany met with the leaders of the Ukrainian national-patriotic forces, with whom he discussed issues of state-church relations and the situation…