The Russian Orthodox Church painfully perceives the wide-scale fire happened on Monday evening in Notre Dame de Paris. “It’s hard to express the pain. Our eyes are full of tears. These “old stones of Europe” are also a part of our soul, our spiritual history. This terrific loss, I believe, unites us with western Christians,…

By the Mercy of God Patriarch of the Holy City of Jerusalem and all Palestine to all the members of the Church, grace and mercy and peace from the All-holy and Life-giving Tomb of the Resurrected Christ. “Ye seek Jesus of Nazareth, which was crucified: he is risen; he is not here: behold the place…

After touching encounters with the Serbs in Strpce and Kosovsko Pomoravlje, His Holiness Patriarch visited the Gracanica Monastery on 16 April 2019. Serbian Patriarch Irinej was solemnly greeted in Gracanica monastery by Bishop Teodosije of Raska-Prizren with abbess Stephanida as well as the sisterhood of the Gracanica. Following the prayer in the church of the…

Update: a communique from the meeting has been released, in Greek, and the issue of Ukraine is mentioned only briefly. This does not mean that the issue was not front and center for the assembled primates and could be considered as simply “another step” on the Ukraine issue, as outlined below. Among other items on…

Preparations are made for the sanctification of the Holy Chrism in the Romanian Orthodox Church next week. This celebration takes place approximately once every ten years, when the reserve of Holy Chrism nears depletion, in accordance with the pastoral and missionary needs of an Autocephalous Orthodox Church. When will the sanctification take place? After completing…

Ethiopia on Thursday confirmed that a cross offered to the Notre-Dame Cathedral in 1954 was among some of the pieces of history that survived a blaze that ravaged the church. Emmanuel Besnier, Deputy Head of Mission at the Embassy of France in Ethiopia, confirmed on Twitter that the cross offered by His Imperial Highness Haile…

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Byzantine-style frescoes and icons now decorate the St. Isaac the Syrian Orthodox Cathedral in Doha, Qatar. According to the periodical Orthodox Word, the Patriarch of the Orthodox Church of Jerusalem, His Most Godly Beatitude, Theophilos III, toured the Cathedral in February. The icons were painted by hagiographers from the Patriarchal and Stavropegic Monastery of Chrysopigi,…

A new cathedral on Cyprus will be built by the Georgian Apostolic Autocephalous Orthodox Church, it was announced this week, following a meeting in Tbilisi by the visiting president of Cyprus, Nicos Anastasiades, with the President of Georgia, Salome Zoura-bich-vili The Cypriot government, in cooperation with the Church of Cyprus, has also granted the Patriarchate…