His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew will host the third Halki Summit from May 31st to June 4th, 2019. The summit will convene distinguished representatives of Orthodox theological schools and seminaries from all over the world, and focus on the theme of “Theological Formation and Ecological Awareness.” Some 50 delegates from over 40 institutions will be…

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The Russian Orthodox Metropolitan of Volokolamsk, His Eminence Hilarion, this week referred to the issue of Greece claiming WWII reparations from Germany. Hilarion, who is the head of the Russian Patriarchate’s department for external Church relations, told the “Russia24” channel that when nations seek to claim one thing from another, for issues that are in…

The Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church, His Holiness Irinej, again expressed his concern over the threats faced by the Orthodox faithful in the region, especially in Kosovo and Metohija. He also referred to his meeting this week with both the president of Serbia and the current chairman of the tripartite Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina….

The Archbishop of Cyprus, His Beatitude Chrysostomos II, on Wednesday denied certain recent press reports claiming that the Ecumenical Patriarch has barred the Archbishop of Albania, His Beatitude Anastasios, from participating in deliberations with other Primates of Orthodox Churches on the issue of the Ukrainian Church’s autocephaly. The press reports claim the reason is Anastasios’…

The veneration of the patron saint of the central Greece city of Larissa, St. Achillios, was held on Tuesday, with the Great Vespers presided by the Metropolitan of Thessaliotidos, His Eminence Timotheos, and co-presided by the Metropolitan of Dimitriados, His Eminence Ignatios. Photos from the service are posted today on the Orthodoxia news agency’s webpages….

An interview by the country’s education and religious affairs minister, Kostas Gavroglu, to Maria Giachnaki and the Orthodoxia news agency is posted today on the agency’s websites. The interview is in Greek.

More reports of attacks this week by jihadist forces in northern Syria, days after a predominately small Christian Orthodox city was targeted by missiles, resulting in the death of at least 12 people, six of which were children. On Tuesday, Muslim militants that still control areas west of Aleppo fired on a camp of displaced…

With the recent bill of the Ministry of Education voted by the Greek Parliament on April 23, 2019, the Orthodox Academy of Crete (OAC) is now incorporated into Law 4310/2014 (A 258) for “Research, Technological Development and Innovation” and is officially among the recognized Research Centers in Greece, Romfea News informs. This is a very…