His Holiness the Serbian Patriarch Irinej received in audience His Excellency Alexander Chepurin, ambassador of the Russian Federation in Belgrade; the reception took place in the Serbian Patriarchate in Belgrade on May 20, 2019. spc.rs

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Two infant twins that miraculously survived a serious illness in far-off Madagascar, following the intervention by the Orthodox mission in the bishopric of Toliara, in the island nation’s south, were baptized recently, with the given names being Cosmas and Damianos – two early Christian twin brothers and physicians.

The Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, His Holiness Kirill, this week visited the Butovo memorial and museum on the outskirts of Moscow. The site, once a firing range, was used by the Bolsheviks after 1917 as an execution site. Thousands of Church hierarchs, clergymen and Orthodox faithful were executed at the site, including 10 Greek…

The life of Greek Orthodox priest Themistocles Adamopoulos continues to fascinate. Known as “Themi Adams”, the bass guitarist of the Australian psychedelic rock band “The Flies”, in the mid 1960s — the one-time atheist and diehard Marxist today is a Greek Orthodox priest who has spearheaded the Church’s apostolic mission in Ebola-ravaged and poverty-stricken Sierra…

The persistent efforts to reconvert the 13th century Orthodox Cathedral of Hagia Sophia, in the Black Sea city of Trabzon, into a mosque continue unchecked. A court in the city of Samsun in 2018 may have blocked plans by Turkey’s commission for the protection of monuments to reconvert the historic Orthodox cathedral back into a…

Disturbing reports continue to come from the Holy Land, in the same locations where Christ walked and preached two millennia ago, citing the stepped up persecution against Christians – an ominous development amid years of a dramatically shrinking of the ancient Christian communities there. Incidents of vandalism against Churches in the West Bank and intimidation…

Over 1,000 pilgrims from the Archdiocese of Roman and Bacau travelled to Putna Monastery together with their Archbishop Ioachim to celebrate the feast day of Saint Jacob of Putna on Wednesday, May 15, 2019. ‘On the 300th birthday anniversary of Saint Jacob of Putna, the Lower Land travelled to the Upper Land,’ the abbot of…

Leading the patronal feast of Sihastria Putnei Monastery, His Eminence Archbishop Pimen referred to the re-establishment of the monastic settlement noting that since 1990 ‘through the blessing of God and with the generosity of believers (…) the wilderness of before bloomed like a lily.’ ‘With every small contribution was made what we see here today….