Thousands of young people, excited with the love of the country, came out on Rustaveli [avenue] to protect the dignity of their homeland and expressed their fair indignation due to the presence of the member of the Russian Parliament, who supported violation of the territorial integrity of Georgia, the Georgian Patriarchate said in a statement…

Representatives of the small indigenous Chulym people of Siberia of Turkic origin, whose name comes from the Chulym River (a tributary of the Ob), mainly live in the Teguldet region of the central Russian Tomsk Province. According to a 2010 census, the number of Chulyms living in Russia does not exceed 360. The Chulym ethnic…

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  The Georgian Orthodox Church on Friday called for self-restraint and the avoidance of violence, following violent clashes outside the country’s Parliament in Tbilisi on Thursday evening. Protesters were angry over the visit of Russian lawmaker Sergei Gavrilov, who was taking part in an Inter-parliamentary assembly on Orthodoxy – a body set up by the…

The Metropolitan of Kitiou, His Eminence Chrysostomos, announced his resignation this week, in an emotional address to congregants on the eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus. In a statement, he said “…If I purposely or inadvertently caused sadness or dismay to anyone, I apologize and, at the same time, offer my forgiveness to anyone that may…

  The reopening of the historic Sts. Constantine and Helen Orthodox Cathedral in Cairo, Egypt, is set for the end of September. The iconic and historic cathedral is indelibly linked with Hellenism in the Egyptian metropolis for more than a century.

  The Archbishop-elect of America, His Eminence Elpidoforos, continued his whirlwind itinerary of meetings and contacts with Church hierarchs and members of ethnic Greek communities this week, after arriving in New York City on Wednesday. Elpidoforos, who will be enthroned on Saturday at the Holy Trinity Orthodox Cathedral in Manhattan, gave a press conference on…

President Milo Djukanovic rejected calls to scrap a draft law that includes a register of religious buildings owned by Montenegro before 1918, which the Serbian Orthodox Church claims is a pretext for disputing its property holdings. President Milo Djukanovic said on Monday that he will not allow anyone to take away what belongs to Montenegro…

On June 19, 2019, the commemoration day of his heavenly patron – St. Hilarion the New and the 32th anniversary of his monastic vows, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, DECR chairman and rector of the Ss Cyril and Methodius Institute of Post-Graduate Studies (CMI), celebrated Divine Liturgy in the church of Holy Martyrs Michael and Theodore…