The Orthodox Church is the institution that enjoys the biggest percentage of citizens’ trust in Georgia, according to a recent study by the local affiliate of Transparency International. The survey shows that 55 percent of respondents in the country trust the Church, followed by teachers, at 31 percent, and physicians, at 22 percent. Conversely,…

  Restoration works continued this week at the Sts. Constantine & Helen Greek Orthodox Cathedral in Cairo, Egypt. A video posted by the ethnic Greek community in the Egyptian capital is found today on the web pages of the Orthodoxia news agency.   

A long-standing legal battle between the municipality of Munich and the Greek state over the utterly delayed construction of a new Greek school in the Bavarian city was detailed this week in an article by the Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper. The paper reports that the municipality is intent on demolishing the construction site, where the school…

The Orthodox Christian Studies Center welcomed 28 scholars and journalists to Fordham from March 20 to 22 for the first seminar in its five-year research initiative on Orthodox Christianity and human rights. The meetings brought together an international group of experts in Orthodox Christianity from several disciplinary backgrounds and areas of specialization to discuss the…

An image of Ecumenical Patriarch, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, on Wednesday lighting a candle and praying outside the permanently closed entrance of the Patriarchical Church of St. George was widely circulated around the world. The entrance, welded shut in 1821, is the place where Ecumenical Patriarch Gregory V was hanged immediately after celebrating the…

A Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate department for external church relations (DECR), met with Germany’s ex-president Christian Wulff, at the DECR. Participating in the meeting from the German side were also Germany’s Ambassador to Russia Rudiger von Fritsch, Mr. Peter Kettner, director of the German ex-president’s secretariat, and Mr. Joachim Knodt,…

Finally, a special feature is posted today on the Orthodoxια Νews Αgency’s web pages on the catacombs on the Cyclades island of Milos. The catacombs on the popular holiday island during antiquity and the Middle Ages served as both a cemetery and places of worships.

The Archbishop of Warsaw and Metropolitan of All Poland, Metropolitan Savvas, last week visited the Monastery of the Annunciation, in Supraśl, Poland, on the occasion of the Great Feast Day.

The Russian Orthodox Church’s Metropolitan of Volokolamsk, His Eminence Hilarion, spoke this week on the Church’s youth initiatives. Among others, the Russian Church’s hierarch said the Moscow Patriarchate is particularly sensitive to youth issues, while promoting actions to support young people and prevent a so-called “brain drain”.