Patriarch Daniel in his Children’s Day message urged parents to spend more time with their children and help them cultivate faith, hope, love and the freedom to do good to others. The Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church dedicated the first Sunday following the International Children’s Day (June 1) to parents and children, in…

During his homily on Sunday, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel stressed that ‘Christ the Lord calls all nations and all persons to salvation.’ ‘Our Saviour Jesus Christ broke or abolished the mental and cultural barriers between Samarians and Jews, and healed the Jews from the complex of their superiority to the Samarians, and the Samarians from…

Scores of residents of Deftera village on Wednesday prevented the construction of a petrol station just a few metres from the cave that houses a church dating to the 1st century AD and threatened more serious protests unless plans to build there were scrapped. Local residents and members of the Green party gathered at the…

With a new state religious holiday, the ruling party is following a well-established pattern in Georgian politics by kowtowing to the church. Legend has it that after Jesus ascended to heaven, the Virgin Mary and the disciples drew lots in Jerusalem to pick the lands where they would spread the word of Christ. Mary drew…

Known as the “Peal of the Moscow region,” the Bobrenev Monastery of the Nativity of the Theotokos, built in the 14th-century by Prince St. Dmitry Donskoy, is set to undergo restoration. Thousands of pilgrims travel to the monastery every year to venerate the wonderworking Feodorov Icon of the Mother of God, reports 360tv.ru. The monastery’s…

His Holiness Pope Francis will pay a visit to our country on May 31 – June 2, 2019 at the invitation of the President of Romania, the state authorities and the Catholic Church in Romania. The schedule of the visit to the Romanian Patriarchate includes a meeting with His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel and the members…

The analysis of the recent developments around Davit Gareji desert leaves an impression that there is another force, which wants to create a serious problem between Azerbaijan and Georgia, unfortunately, this force finds support in the both countries, – reads the statement of the Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia, Ilia II. In the statement, which was…

It is necessary to keep calm; It is necessary to show more robustness and civic responsibility, we particularly call on the clergy and the parish, – reads the statement of the Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia, Ilia II. In the statement, which was introduced by Archpriest Mikheil Botkoveli on Monday evening, the Patriarch underlines that the…

At the invitation of His Beatitude, Metropolitan Tikhon, His Grace, Bishop Matthew of Sourozh, Interim Administrator of the Patriarchal Parishes in the USA, joined the members of the Holy Synod of Bishops of at a session devoted to ongoing plans for celebrations marking the 50th Anniversaries of the Granting of Autocephaly and the Glorification of…