Turkish President Tayyip Recep Erdogan on Wednesday took to his personal Twitter account to issue more threats against Hellenism — on the day that marked the 566th anniversary of the Fall of Constantinople in 1453. The increasingly authoritarian Turkish leader again denied the existence of the Armenian and Pontian Greek genocides of the early 20th…

The Church today, May 30, venerates the memory of St. Emilia, the mother of St. Basil the Great. Emilia was the daughter of a early Christian martyr and lived in the Asia Minor city of Caesarea in the 4th century AD. Ten children were born to the Emilia and the elder Basil, her husband: five sons…

The reliquary with a part of the Holy Cincture (Holy Belt) of the Mother of God from Kato Xenia Monastery arrived at St Parasceva Church in Voluntari on Thursday morning, May 30. The delegation from Greece was welcomed by Fr. Cristian Burcea, dean of Ilfov Nord Deanery, in the presence of many believers. The Holy…

Patriarch Daniel in his Children’s Day message urged parents to spend more time with their children and help them cultivate faith, hope, love and the freedom to do good to others. The Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church dedicated the first Sunday following the International Children’s Day (June 1) to parents and children, in…

During his homily on Sunday, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel stressed that ‘Christ the Lord calls all nations and all persons to salvation.’ ‘Our Saviour Jesus Christ broke or abolished the mental and cultural barriers between Samarians and Jews, and healed the Jews from the complex of their superiority to the Samarians, and the Samarians from…

Scores of residents of Deftera village on Wednesday prevented the construction of a petrol station just a few metres from the cave that houses a church dating to the 1st century AD and threatened more serious protests unless plans to build there were scrapped. Local residents and members of the Green party gathered at the…

With a new state religious holiday, the ruling party is following a well-established pattern in Georgian politics by kowtowing to the church. Legend has it that after Jesus ascended to heaven, the Virgin Mary and the disciples drew lots in Jerusalem to pick the lands where they would spread the word of Christ. Mary drew…

Known as the “Peal of the Moscow region,” the Bobrenev Monastery of the Nativity of the Theotokos, built in the 14th-century by Prince St. Dmitry Donskoy, is set to undergo restoration. Thousands of pilgrims travel to the monastery every year to venerate the wonderworking Feodorov Icon of the Mother of God, reports 360tv.ru. The monastery’s…

His Holiness Pope Francis will pay a visit to our country on May 31 – June 2, 2019 at the invitation of the President of Romania, the state authorities and the Catholic Church in Romania. The schedule of the visit to the Romanian Patriarchate includes a meeting with His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel and the members…