The analysis of the recent developments around Davit Gareji desert leaves an impression that there is another force, which wants to create a serious problem between Azerbaijan and Georgia, unfortunately, this force finds support in the both countries, – reads the statement of the Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia, Ilia II. In the statement, which was…

It is necessary to keep calm; It is necessary to show more robustness and civic responsibility, we particularly call on the clergy and the parish, – reads the statement of the Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia, Ilia II. In the statement, which was introduced by Archpriest Mikheil Botkoveli on Monday evening, the Patriarch underlines that the…

At the invitation of His Beatitude, Metropolitan Tikhon, His Grace, Bishop Matthew of Sourozh, Interim Administrator of the Patriarchal Parishes in the USA, joined the members of the Holy Synod of Bishops of at a session devoted to ongoing plans for celebrations marking the 50th Anniversaries of the Granting of Autocephaly and the Glorification of…

Sessions of an international congress, under the auspices of Ecumenical Patriarch, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, began in Thessaloniki on Wednesday — at the Aristotle University faculty of theology. The conference is entitled “The Timeliness of Patristic Studies in the Modern World”. A representative of the Patriarchate, Metropolitan of Kassandria, His Eminence Nicodimos, read out…

The Patriarch of Serbia, His Holiness Irinej, this week received a representative of the Russian Orthodox Church, Bishop Nikolai. According to reports, discussions touched on the brotherly ties between the Slavic peoples of Russia and Serbia, both indelibly linked with the Byzantine missionaries Cyril and Methodius – the Apostles to the Slavs. The Serbian Patriarch…

A Romanian Orthodox Church skete is set to reopen in the Jordan Valley after half a century. Father Theophilos Anastasoe, the representative of the Romanian Patriarchate in the Holy Land, acquired a necessary license from Jordanian authorities for the skete to operate as a place of worship in the West Bank. According to Father Theophilos,…

A feature today on the webpages of the Orthodoxia News Agency profiles a Monastery dedicated to the Virgin Mary, on the eastern Aegean island of Chios, at the Pagousaina site. The medieval monastery is located in the island’s north, some 52 kilometers from the capital city, and built on the slopes of a mountain, and…

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Members of an association of Pontian Greek youth from central Athens, known as the “Black Sea Association”, this week put on a brief dance performance atop the Great Wall of China, in honor of the 100-year anniversary of the Pontian Genocide. Members of the group travelled to far-off China to participate in events commemorating the…