The Cultural and Administrative Center “Serbian Patriarch Pavle” was solemnly consecrated and opened. His Grace Vicar Bishop Stefan of Remesiana, envoy of His Holiness Serbian Patriarch, Bishops Fotije of Tuzla and Heruvim of Osek-Polje, President of the Republic of Srpska Mrs. Zeljka Cvijanovic, ministers in the Government of the Republic of Srpska, and other cultural,…

After the inauguration of Vladimir Zelensky, Metropolitan of Kiev and All Ukraine, Onufry assured that Ukrainian Orthodox Church supports new President of Ukraine in all of his good intentions. “I admire, that on his inauguration, President was talking from the bottom of his heart and about things, which fulfill his soul. It is ending the…

The Sunday of the Samaritan Woman was celebrated on Sunday May 13/26, 2019 at Jacob’s Well in Samaria in the city of Nablus. On this feast the Church commemorates the event of the conversation of the Samaritan Woman with our Lord Jesus by Jacob’s well, in which according to St. John the Evangelist (ch. 4:42)…

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A feature is posted today on the webpages of the Orthodoxia News Agency on the historic Dormition of the Virgin Monastery in the Peloponnese, known as the Malevi Convent. The complex was built on Mt. Parnonas on the site of an 8th century AD monastery, and features six chapels, modern accommodations and auxiliary buildings. It is…

The Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church, His Holiness Irinej, visited the Basilica of St. Stephen, in the Hungarian capital. He also paid a courtesy visit to the Serbian embassy in Budapest. In Strasbourg, the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, His Holiness Kirill, on Sunday officiated at the Divine Liturgy held at All Saints…

Greek Orthodox Archimandrite Epifanios was ordained as the Autochephalous Ukrainian Orthodox Church’s (OCU) Bishop of Olvia on the Sunday of the Samaritan Woman — at the St. Michael Cathedral in Kiev. Members of the Ukrainian Church’s Holy Synod elected Epifanios as the bishop of the ecclesiastical jurisdiction, on the shores of the northern Black Sea,…

In the Horn of Africa, reports are continuing of persecution of dozens of Christians in the predominately Muslim country of Eritrea. More arrests of Christians have been reported, after authorities detained 140 earlier this month, including 14 minors.

Greece entered a full-flown campaign season on Monday, after the Greek prime minister’s address, late on Sunday, where he announced that he will resign and request that a snap election takes place. The most likely dates are June 30 or July 7, both Sundays. Expectedly, the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece and the Ecumenical Patriarchate…