Watch our news bulletin in English with Charilaos Tzannis:  

Remember that a family is happy when it is legal, and legal family consists of a man and a woman – Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia, His Holiness and Beatitude Ilia II said in Sameba (Holy Trinity) Cathedral in Tbilisi when addressing participants of the public marching organized on the occasion of Family Purity Day marked…

On Thursday afternoon, May 3/16, 2019, a Seminar under S.V. Stepashin, Chairman of the district and foreign departments of the Imperial Orthodox Palestinian Society, took place at Sergei Hotel which is adjacent to the Russian MISSIA of the Moscow Patriarchate, on the occasion of the two-hundred-year anniversary of the diplomatic support of the Russian presence…

Developments next week are judged as vital for Church-state relations in Greece, as well as relations between the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the Mother Church of Orthodoxy, with the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece. A closely watched session of the Church of Greece’s permanent Holy Synod reconvenes on Wednesday, and is set to continue until…

The new Archbishop of America, His Eminence Elpidoforos, this week had his first contact with Greek Orthodox clergymen in the United States, addressing some 400 clerics via a video-conference. According to a report in the expatriate newspaper The National Herald, the video conference lasted roughly an hour. Active and retired Orthodox clerics heard the new…

The issue of the schismatic Orthodox Church in the newly renamed Republic of North Macedonia, known for centuries as the Archbishopric of Ohrid, re-emerged on the forefront this week — with the Ecumenical Patriarchate referring to a standing appeal by the latter. The Church of Constantinople said the appeal is under examination. In a related…

Construction on a new Orthodox cathedral in the city of Yekaterinburg has been temporarily halted, following stepped up demonstrations by local residents, who oppose the loss of green space where the church is being built. The matter reached all the way up to Russian President Vladimir Putin, who said that “… everyone has a right…

More disturbing reports surfaced this week of attacks against former Muslims who converted to Christianity in the east African country of Uganda. The reports come as the Metropolitan of Kampala and All Uganda, His Eminence Jonas, this week announced the creation of a second Orthodox diocese in the country. One convert to Orthodox Christianity was…

More than 500 couples who had already started families but had no Church wedding participated in mass wedding ceremonies yesterday, reports the site of the Georgian Patriarchate. The services were held with the blessing of His Holiness Catholicos-Patriarch Ilia II of Georgia. The organizational work was undertaken by the Society of Chokhonetsev of Georgia, founded by…