The Holy Synod of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church on Friday announced that the Church’s hierarchs and officials will not participate in any of the events related to an upcoming visit to the country by Roman Catholic Pope Francis. The only exception will be a meeting between the Bulgarian Patriarch, His Beatitude Neophyte, with the Pope…

  The Polish Autocephalous Orthodox Church on Friday expressed its official opposition to the granting of the Tomos of autocephaly to the Orthodox Church of the Ukraine.    In an announcement, the Archbishop of Warsaw and Metropolitan of All Poland, His Beatitude Savva, said his Church continues to recognize the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow…

The Church of Greece’s reaction against the current Tsipras government’s effort to revise certain articles in the country’s criminal code continued this week, a day after the Holy Synod expressed its opposition to a revision of the articles regarding malicious blasphemy, insult to religion and defamation of the deceased. On Friday, the Metropolitan of Kissamos…

During the month of April, people in Timisoara have the opportunity to glimpse a collection of 500 Bibles in multiple languages and dimensions. The exhibition titled The Museum of the Bible was opened on Tuesday, April 2, at the Theresian Bastion in Timisoara in the presence of His Eminence Metropolitan Ioan of Banat. The 500…

In view of the upcoming European elections in May 2019, the Representatives of the Orthodox Churches to the European Union (CROCEU) would like to address all European citizens concerning the future of the European Union. After having considered the enlarged responsibilities and competencies of the European Parliament and the importance of the participation of European…

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  A pediatric bone marrow transplant unit founded by the Association of Friends of Children with Cancer, known as “Elpida”, Greek for hope, this year celebrates 26 years of operation. Since its inception the unit has successfully treated more than 1,000 children that would have, otherwise, had to travel abroad. In honor of the unit’s…

Spectacular image were presented this week on how Constantinople looked before it fell to the Ottomans in 1453. The digital images were presented by a Turkish mass media outlet. The Imperial city’s grandeur comes to life, with the most prominent example being the Hagia Sophia Cathedral. The 1,000-year Eastern Roman empire, later referred to as…

Romanian Orthodox Church Bishop Vicar, His Grace Timotei blessed the foundations of a new bell tower at a cathedral within the Romanian police academy – on the 169th anniversary of the creation of Romania’s gendarmerie.