The National Bank of Romania has put recently into circulation, for numismatic purposes, a gold coin and a brass collector coin dedicated to 550 years since the consecration of the Putna Monastery’s church. Obverse of the gold coin: an image of the Putna Monastery’s church, the inscription “ROMANIA” in an arc, the face value “100…

We are on the threshold of the second Sunday of Great Lent dedicated to Saint Gregory Palamas also known as the theologian of the uncreated divine energies. Since the work of the Holy Archbishop of Thessalonica refers to contemplation, quietude, spiritual peace, we thought to list six ways to foster silence and implicitly calmness, as…

On Sunday, March 17, 2019, the Sunday of Orthodoxy and First Sunday of Great Lent, His All-Holiness solemnly concelebrated the Divine Liturgy together with Metropolitans Elder Dimitrios of the Princes’ Islands, Augustinos of Germany, Germanos of Tranoupolis, Sotirios of Toronto, Makarios of Aneon, Eugenios of Rethymno and Avlopotamos, Amphilochios of Ganou and Chora, Damaskinos of…

On March 19-20, 2019, the 13th regional conference of Russian compatriots’ organizations in Asia ‘Russian-Speaking Diasporas for Cooperation’ took place in Shanghai. It united representatives of Russian compatriots’ organizations in China, Mongolia, Japan, Thailand, Singapore, Cambodia, Nepal and the Republic of Korea. The Russian Orthodox Church was represented by Archimandrite Alexander (Zarkeshev), rector of the…

  People from throughout Cyprus on Wednesday traveled to the Turkish-occupied coastal town Famagusta to witness a ceremony marking the completion of conservation works at the church of St. Anne, as well the neighboring tanners’ mosque. Efforts to restore the two houses of worship in the walled city of Famagusta began in September 2017, on…

  The Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, His Holiness Kirill, opened a supreme ecclesiastical council by referring to the problems faced by clerics’ families in our era. The Patriarch of the Moscow Church said: “… the crisis in family values, which has harmed today’s society, has also affected the families of our priests. There…

  Another offensive reference this week, by a Greek author, to what the Orthodox faithful consider as the miracle of the Holy Light, again brought to the forefront a scientific mission supervised by Russian physicist Andrey Volkov, an associate professor in material science, during Easter in 2008. The project was organized by Prof. Alexander Moskovsky…

  Four new assistant bishops were appointed during Wednesday’s session of the permanent Holy Synod meeting on Wednesday. Archimandrite Filotheos Theoharis was appointed as the new first secretary of the Church of Greece’s Holy Synod. Archimandrite Chrysostomos Panagopoulos was elected as an assistant bishop at the Archdiocese of Athens. Archimandrite Agapios Dritsas was elected as…

  A new chapter in Church-state relations more-or-less emerged yesterday, in the wake of a permanent Holy Synod decision to reject the current government’s proposal for a change in clerics’ payroll regime — as well as a proposed constitutional revision aimed at enshrining the state’s so-called “religious neutrality”. Church hierarchs stressed that dialogue with the…