The delegation of the State Agency for Religious Issues continues a working visit to the State of Romania. Within the visit, the Deputy Chairman of the agency Giorgi Ukleba held a meeting with the head of the Anthim the Iberian Monastery of Bucharest, the Bishop Varlam of the Romanian Orthodox Church. At the meeting, Giorgi…

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A video showing the majestic images and natural beauty of the Meteora rock formations is posted today on the Orthodoxia news agency.     

Two significant decisions were taken on Wednesday by Ecumenical Patriarchate’s Holy Synod, with the Ecumenical Patriarch, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, presiding. Holy Synod members elected the Metropolitan of the Dardanelles, His Eminence Nikitas, as the new Archbishop of Thyateira and Great Britain. His Eminence Nikitas has served as the director of the Patriarch Athenagoras…

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on Monday received a Church delegation led by the Metropolitan of Minsk and Zaslav, and Exarch of All Belarus, His Eminence Pavel. The Belarus Metropolitan arrived in the Caucasus country at the invitation of the Catholicos of All Armenians, His Holiness Karekin II — and with the blessing of the…

  A 40-day memorial service will be held for, reposed in the Lord, Archimandrite Elder Emilianos, the former abbot of the Athonite Simenopetra Monastery — at the same monastery on June 17 through June 19, as well as at the Annunciation Convent in Ormylia, in south-central Greece.

  The Patriarchate of Romania this week expressed its deep displeasure with a theatrical performance in the country that insults and denigrates religious symbols. In an announcement, the Patriarchate of Bucharest said the performance’s main intent is to insult religious symbols in the country, with the message intentionally blasphemous.    

  A tour of the Monastery of St. Ioannis Prodromos (Greek for St. John the Baptist) on the Ionian island of Lefkada, is posted today on the webpages of the Orthodoxia news agency. The Monastery, near the Livadi Karyas site on the island, is experiencing a renaissance, with new monks arriving to re-establish its former…

A theft of offerings from the main cathedral (Catholicos) at the historic Monastery of Iviron, on the semi-autonomous monastic community of Mt. Athos, was reported overnight on Thursday, with subsequent reports noting that five suspects subsequently abandoned the items in a forest near the Monastery and fled to a nearby gorge. A large police detail…