On Saturday, June 30/ July 13, 2019, the Patriarchate celebrated the Feast of the Synaxis (Gathering) of the Holy Apostles at their Holy Monastery in Tiberias, which is located at the centre of the Israeli town of Tiberias, on the north-west side of the Tiberias sea. On this Feast the Church holds the Synaxis, the…

With the Tomos bestowed, historical justice was restored, which Ukrainians had sought for many years, said Pat. Bartholomew at a meeting with the delegation of the OCU. On July 12, 2019, the OCU delegation visited Istanbul, where it met with Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, the OCU website reports. The delegation included the deputy head of…

Unknown persons demolished and destroyed more than twenty tombstones in the Orthodox cemetery in Lipljan on the night between Friday and Saturday, RTV Gracanica reported. The president of the Serbian community in Lipljan, Jovica Miric confirmed for RTV Gracanica that over twenty tombstones were destroyed. This is not the first time that this Orthodox graveyard…

After journalists’ questions about offensive statements against the Ecumenical Patriarchate, which were allegedly made recently by a member of the autonomous presence of the Patriarchate of Moscow in Ukraine, the Director of the Press and Communication Office of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, Nikos Papachristou, said: Allegations or information from anyone claiming that the Ecumenical Patriarchate, in…

On the feast day of Holy Apostles Peter and Paul, His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch officiated the Holy Hierarchal Liturgy in the church dedicated to these saints in Topcider. The Patriarch was concelebrated by protopresbyter-staurophor Petar Sailovic and Djordje Trajkovic, protopresbyter Branislav Jelic, presbyters Arsenije Arsenijevic and Vukasin Milicevic, as well as deacons Aleksandar Sekulic…

With the blessing of His Eminence Metropolitan Vladimir of Chisinau and Moldova, the Divine Liturgy on the Fourth Sunday after Pentecost was celebrated in the Central Cathedral in Chisinau by the Metropolitan Vicar Bishop Ioan of Soroca. His Grace Ioan was assisted at the service by archpriest Vadim Cheibas, Metropolitan Secretary and Dean of the…

A newly recently documentary, “Building Hope,” features teens from St. Ignatius Antiochian Orthodox Church in Franklin, Tennessee participating in a homebuilding project sponsored by Project Mexico and St. Innocent Orphanage.  Directed by Adam Lowell Roberts, this documentary follows five teenagers as they build a house in Mexico for a homeless family. The movie was produced by the…

The Greek Orthodox Church will next week petition against a final ruling of Israel’s Supreme Court which approved the sale of church property in East Jerusalem’s Old City to pro-settlement group Ateret Cohanim. Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported that the petition will argue that the sale of the property was based on bribery and the…

There has been a “dramatic decline” in Britain’s Christian identity over the last 35 years – with a “substantial increase” in atheism, a state-of-the-nation survey has suggested. Slightly over one-third (38%) of the 3,879 people polled for the British Social Attitudes report described themselves as Christian, down from one-half (50%) in 2008, and nearly two-thirds…