The Bishop of Raška-Prizren Teodosije served today holy liturgy at St. Demetrius in Kosovska Mitrovica thus providing spiritual support to the faithful people in this area. In a conversation with the clergy and the believers, the Bishop was briefed on the latest humanitarian situation, which, according to the testimony of the faithful, is the worse…

The new Archbishop of Australia, His Eminence Makarios, will arrive in Melbourne on Aug. 3, a metropolis that hosts one of the biggest ethnic Greek communities outside Greece. Makarios was enthroned as the Primate of the Greek Orthodox Church in Australia last weekend during an enthronement ceremony in the Archdiocese cathedral of the Annunciation of…

An Orthodox priest in the Medan region of northern Sumatra, Fr. Chrysostomos Manulu, has overseen for the past 18 years a major humanitarian and missionary effort, establishing a hospital, 10 Orthodox churches, six schools and a seminary that teaches ancient Greek, among others. Fr. Chrysostomos details the missionary work in the specific Indonesian region in an…

The Serbian Orthodox Church and the Diocese of Raška-Prizren, based in Gračanica, this week warned of a looming humanitarian crisis involving the remaining Serbian population in north Kosovo and Metohija, while also calling for immediate relief. According to an announcement, the situation for the remaining Christians in the province is worse than even during the…

Two factors have defined Greek life for at least the past century: religion and emigration. Now, a new startup, Do My Tama, is helping ex-pats stay connected to their faith and families by offering to perform religious devotions, virtual pilgrimages and other religious services. Unlike many Western European countries, where the percentage of the pious…

The World Heritage Committee, meeting in Baku since 30 June, today decided to remove the Birthplace of Jesus: the Church of the Nativity and the Pilgrimage Route, Bethlehem (Palestine) from the List of World Heritage in Danger. The Committee said its decision was due to the high quality of work carried out on the Nativity…

“We are hurt by what is going on in Ukraine, we pray for the unity of Orthodoxy but for the right unity, the unity in the canonical Church. We wish that the Ukrainian Orthodox Church could continue her salvific journey without political obstacles”, said Metropolitan Timotheos of Vostrol (Patriarchate of Jerusalem) after the Divine Liturgy…

Metropolitan Iosif ow Western and Southern Europe on Tuesday said that ‘Saint Stephen transfigured this world through prayer, faith, humility, love of his family and nation, which became his family’. ‘In everything he did, he searched for Christ the Lord,’ the Romanian Orthodox Metropolitan of Western and Southern Europe said during the patronal feast of…

On June 27-29, 2019, the Archbishop Anthony (Medvedev) Memorial Library at the headquarters of the Western American Diocese hosted a regular session of the Synod of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, which coincided with the 25th-anniversary celebrations of the canonization of St John of Shanghai and San Francisco the Miracle-worker. The…