The House Transport Committee on Friday urged a company building a petrol station near a cave housing the church of Panayia Chrysospiliottisa in Kato Deftera not to resume construction until parliament had been fully briefed. Committee chairman Yiorgos Prokopiou said it would be best if the petrol station was built on another plot nearby. A…

BALTIMORE, MD – International Orthodox Christian Charities (IOCC) announced on June 4 a fundraising push for ongoing work in Ethiopia, aiming to raise $135,000 to continue combatting the tropical disease podoconiosis and to expand health services in underserved, isolated areas of the country. Since 2010, IOCC has worked to alleviate podoconiosis in Ethiopia. Parallel strategies…

For the first time, the Romanian Orthodox Metropolis of Western and Southern Europe is organizing a summer camp for children in France! This camp is for children from 8 to 15 years old. It will be held from August 12-19, 2019 in an exceptionally beautiful place located in the mountains of Vercors (La Servagère). The…

On Thursday, June 6, 2019, on the commemoration of the Holy Ascension of Our Lord , His Eminence Metropolitan Jonah Lwanga presided over a meeting with the clergy from the Orthodox Church deaneries of Central and All western Uganda. This instrumental meeting was organized with the aim of discussing on the various ways in which…

His Eminence Metropolitan Daniil of Vidin has been perhaps the most outspoken hierarch of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church on the ongoing Ukrainian crisis situation. Along with two other metropolitans, he called for the Synod to call for a pan-Orthodox council, and he was the first Orthodox hierarch to publicly denounce the “unification council” on December 15 by which…

On 5th June 2019, in Geneva, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, met with Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, General Secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC). At the beginning of the meeting, Metropolitan Hilarion conveyed to the WCC General Secretary warm greetings from His Holiness…

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The Saint Maxim the Greek Institute, with the support of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopaidi, is introducing the ‘Evyenios Voulgaris’ Scholarship Programme. Evyenios Voulgaris (1716-1806) served as principal of the Athoniada School, which had been established by the Holy Monastery of Vatopaidi. In his day, he was the greatest and most important Greek…

With great concern, the Diocese of Raška-Prizren has received information about an announcement specifying the beginning of construction work on the site of an old Serbian medieval church, that of St. Nicholas, which was the cathedral church for the Serbian Orthodox bishops of Novo Brdo and Gračanica, and which is located near the Novo Brdo…