Watch our special news bulletin in English for Saturday, June 22, 2019 with Charilaos Tzannis:
On 20 June 2019, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations (DECR) met with H.E. Carsten Søndergaard, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Kingdom of Denmark to the Russian Federation. They were joined in the meeting by deacon Andrei Titushkin of the DECR secretariat for far abroad countries….
Much has been written recently as a result of the Ukrainian issue, both positively and negatively, from whichever side one looks at it. In particular, there has been very harsh criticism of the Ecumenical Patriarchate. Prompted by this, it has been necessary for me to write articles so as to explain some aspects of the…
The great patron saint of Ireland will soon be the patron saint of roughly 170 disabled children in a village in Belarus. Construction on the Church of St. Patrick at the Vesnovo boarding school for disabled children in the village of Vesnovo in central Belarus is already underway, while the laying of a memorial capsule at the…
The new archbishop of America, Elpidophoros, who will be enthroned on Saturday, is seen addressing members of the Greek Orthodox Church and diaspora in New York on Friday. The archbishop declared that his top priority will be the swift completion of restoration works on the Saint Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church at Ground Zero in Manhattan….
The Interparliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy has released a statement about the actions of some members of the Georgian Parliament. You can read the full statement below: The Interparliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy (I.A.O) strongly condemns the unlawful actions of some members of the Georgian Parliament, which took place on the 20th of June 2019 during the…
Vladimir Legoida, spokesman of the Moscow Patriarchate, has blamed protests in Georgia over Russia’s participation in an Interparliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy in Tbilisi on political divisions inside this former Soviet country. “There are no rifts inside the assembly that could have led to this … Events of the past day are rooted in social and…
During a press conference to present the report on Friday, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and the US Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom Sam Brownback referred to the issue of Halki seminary The US State Department sent two messages to Turkey regarding the reopening of the Theological School of Halki in its annual report…
On Friday the 21st of June His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia attended a warm welcome dinner at Le Sand Pavilion organised by His Grace Bishop Seraphim of Apollonias and clergy. It was an opportunity for the Archbishop to meet all the clergy of NSW and the Presviteres. Very Rev. Nektarios Zorbalas welcomed His Eminence…