From March 23 to 29, 2019, Bishop Demetrios of Safita, Patriarchate of Antioch, was on a visit to Moscow to attend the international research-practice conference on ‘Ways of achieving interreligious peace: the role of theologians, diplomats and public leaders’, and to venerate shrines of the Russian Orthodox Church. On March 24, the St. Gregory Palamas…

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The Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church, His Holiness Irinej, on Monday bestowed the Order of St. Sava on Greece’s ambassador to Serbia, Ilias Iliadis. The Order of St. Sava is the highest decoration awarded by the Serbian Orthodox Church. In his comments during a ceremony at the Patriarchate in Belgrade, His Holiness Irinej again…

The Russian Orthodox Church-affiliated charity “Mercy” has opened a homeless support center in downtown Moscow, where people in need can wash their clothes, acquire personal hygiene products and seek first aid.  

  Well-known Hollywood actor and producer Tom Hanks again showed his love of Greece this week, taking to social media to post a photograph of a T-shirt that reads: “… take me to Hellas”, the name for Greece in Greek. The two-time Oscar-winning movie star was baptized into the Orthodox faith in 1988, when he…

Christians in Madagascar continue to insist on baptism as an expression of their faith, and despite the persecution often-times endured by Christians and priests on the large Indian Ocean island. In an announcement this week, the Orthodox Metropolis of Madagascar as well as the Brotherhood of Orthodox Missionaries called for godparents to volunteer, so that…

Tuesday’s session of the Church of Greece’s standing Holy Synod concluded without any major decisions, as the Church has now decisively signaled to the Greek government that it will not enter into dialogue or negotiations over the government’s intent to change the payroll regime for clerics in the country. The Church’s hierarchs have also rejected…

Today’s session of the Church of Greece’s standing Holy Synod concluded without any major decisions, as the Church has now decisively signaled to the Greek government that it will not enter into dialogue or negotiations over the government’s intent to change the payroll regime for clerics in the country. The Church’s hierarchs have also rejected…

His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel on Monday, April 1, blessed two new reliquaries containing particles of the holy relics of Sts Charalampos, Theodore Tiron and Menas that will be enshrined at Suzana Monastery. ‘We ascribe glory to God for answering the wish of Suzana Monastery to have two new reliquaries containing the relics of Hieromartyr Charalampos,…