The Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, His Divine Beatitude Theodoros II, concluded his visit last week to the Diocese of Arusha and Central Tanzania with a tour of the Kidamali mission center, before returning by plane to Dar es Salaam last Tuesday. The Patriarch of Alexandria was later received in the Tanzanian metropolis by…

Stories continue to emerge of non-Christians, who fled Middle East and central Asian war-zones over the past years to seek refuge in EU member-state Greece, and who subsequently found Christ and converted to Christianity. One man from Afghanistan, Ahmet, recounts how as a radical Muslim and Taliban insurgent he decided to abandon violence and his…

The UN special commission has examined the facts of intolerance and discrimination on religious ground against UOC believers. From May 20 to 24, 2019, the 28th session of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (CCPCJ) was held in Vienna. Among other issues, it examined the information submitted by the NGO “Public Advocacy” on…

Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia has arrived in Strasbourg where he will consecrate the Church of All Saints and meet with the leadership of the Council of Europe. Priest Alexander Volkov, the spokesman for the Russian Orthodox Church leader, told Sputnik that the Church of All Saints in Strasbourg would be consecrated on…

Conservation works began on Tuesday at the Saints Andronikos and Athanasia church in the occupied village of Kythrea. Greek Cypriot co-chairman of the bicommunal Technical Committee on Cultural Heritage, Takis Hadjidemetriou, told CNA that the works will cost 270,000 euros and that they will be concluded within 2019. He noted that the church is ready…

This government does not protect the interests of the country, does not perform its primary duty to protect our territorial integrity, – Archimandrite Kirion told journalists in Davit Gareji when speaking about the construction of a road by the Azerbaijani side. According to the Archimandrite, the Azeri side has almost completed the procedure of the…

With the official return of the stolen reliquary of St. Mamas, the Cypriot patron saint of the Monastery of Morfou, Hargesheimer Kunstauktionen Düsseldorf could make a small contribution to the return of lost art treasures on May 14. Frank and Susanne Hargesheimer, Managing Director of the auction house of the same name, is keen to…

No one has the right to judge what is right and what is wrong in the text of the Tomos, noted Met. Emanuel of France, commenting on Filaret Denisenko’s statements. The text of the Tomos, which laid the foundations of the new autocephalous Church, is not the result of negotiations between the two parties but…

His Holiness Serbian Patriarch Irinej arrived to the church of Saint Great-martyr George in Budapest, in the evening on Friday, May 24, 2019, where he was welcomed by Bishop Lukian of Buda with clergy and a great number of people, who gathered to greet their Archhierarch. His Grace Bishop Dr. Irinej of Bachka and his…