Metropolitan Meletios of Carthage arrived in Ukraine to festivities on the occasion of His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry’s Name Day. On June 24, 2019, a representative of the Patriarchate of Alexandria, Metropolitan Meletios of Carthage, arrived in Kiev, according to the Department for External Church Relations of the UOC. Metropolitan Meletios of Carthage arrived in Ukraine…

The Russian Orthodox Church seeks to stop the practice of blessing weapons of mass destruction under rules that could be approved later this summer, a senior church official has said. Over the years, Russian priests have been called to bless everything from tanks and missiles to cats and metro cars. Members of a Church council…

On Sunday of All Saints, June 10/23, 2019, the Church celebrated the feast of all the Saints, Apostles, Martyrs, Confessors and Righteous, who are the fruit of the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. If the Comforter had not had come, the Church itself would not have existed, nor would it have this numerous richness of…

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The Moscow Patriarchate’s head of external church relations, Russian Orthodox Metropolitan of Volokolamsk, His Eminence Hilarion, arrived in the southern Greece city of Corinth this week, where he was received by the Metropolitan of Corinth, His Eminence Dionysius. Hilarion, who is also a permanent member of the Russian Church’s Holy Synod, is accompanied by Archpriest Igor Yakimchuk, DECR secretary…

An unprecedented sacrilege took place over the weekend in the southern Albanian town of Tepelene, as the city’s mayor held a campaign gathering inside the historic Cathedral of the Prophet Elijah, in the village of Lekli. The politician, who belongs to the ruling party, later boasted of the event on social media. Local media referred to…

The Serbian Orthodox Bishop of Osijek-Polje and Baranja, His Grace Heruvim, this week toured cathedrals under renovation or construction in his eastern Croatia jurisdiction, including the Cathedral church of Holy Great Martyr Demetrius in Dalj. A Church delegation later arrived in the city of Vukovar, where the Cathedral of St. Nicholas had been previously confiscated,…

The Holy Synod of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece on Monday issued a press release warning against the activity of a neo-protestant group called “Greek Missionary Union”. In a statement, the Holy Synod noted that “…Orthodox Christians, as members of the one and only Body of Christ, the Church, have no need of inchoate…

The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, concelebrated the Divine Liturgy at the Cathedral of the Assumption of the Virgin, in the town of Avanos, in Cappadocia, central Turkey — with the Primate of the Orthodox Church in America, Metropolitan Tikhon. Worshippers included ethnic Greeks in Turkey and pilgrims from Greece.