The body of reposed in Christ Elder, Emilianos Simono-petritis lay in state at the Holy Convent of the Annunciation in Ormylia, located in the northern Greece prefecture of Halkidiki. The Elder Emilianos (born Alexandros Vafiadis) was the Abbot Archimandrite of the Holy Monastery of Simono-petras, and the spiritual father of the Holy Convent of the…
A number of first-time launches and a range of shows will celebrate International Museum Day and annual Night at the Museum date this month at Vardzia, an iconic medieval cave city monument in Georgia’s south. The site of the 12th century monastery complex, under preparations to be nominated for the UNESCO World Heritage list, will…
On Wednesday May 8, 2019, the Georgian parliament approved the changes proposed to be made into Labor Code of Georgia. May 12, which was previously declared as Saint Andrew the First-Called Day, was also announced to be Day of Georgia’s Allotted to Virgin Mary. The Government’s Parliamentary Secretary Natia Mikeladze presented the proposed changes to…
Iconographers from the St. Andrei Rublev workshop at Holy Trinity Church in Kursk transferred a newly-painted copy of a 13th-century Syrian icon of the holy Martyrs Sergius and Bacchus to representatives of Rossotrudnichestvo (The Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States, Compatriots Living Abroad and International Humanitarian Cooperation) on Monday. From there, the icon…
His Beatitude Onufry performed a memorial service for those who fell during the Great Patriotic War at the Monument of Eternal Glory in the city of Kiev. On May 9, 2019, on the Victory Day over the Nazi invaders, at the stele on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in the territory of the Park…
A memorial day for the victims of the Jasenovac camp, where 700,000 Serbs, Jews, Roma and anti-fascists were killed. At the event, organized by the governments of the Republics of Srpska and Serbia, it was announced that a joint Memorial Center was to be built in memory of victims of the Jasenovac Golgotha. -This is…
A casket with the relics of saints originally from St Mamas church in Morphou will be returned to its rightful owner, the Metropolis of Morphou, on May 14 a German auction house announced on Monday. The official and public handover of the reliquary to the representative of Metropolitan Neophytos of Morphou, the Archimandrite Fotios Ioakeim,…
Andrei Tiberiu Maria, better known by his stage name Smiley, is a Romanian singer and songwriter who hosted Romania’s Got Talent TV show for seven consecutive seasons and was a coach on the panel of The Voice Romania music competition. In a message posted Sunday on his Facebook account, Smiley wrote about his values and…
The Patriarch of the Holy City of Jerusalem and all Palestine and Jordan, Theophilus III, expressed his appreciation and gratitude on behalf of himself, members of the Holy Synod, the Brotherhood of the Holy Sepulchre, the clergy and members of the Greek Orthodox Church of Jerusalem for His Majesty King Abdullah II who made a…