On March 17, 2019, the First Sunday of Lent, the Triumph of Orthodoxy, and the commemoration day of the Holy Prince Daniel of Moscow, His Beatitude Kirill, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, celebrated the Liturgy of St. Basil the Great and the Service of the Triumph of Orthodoxy at the Cathedral Church of Christ…

Young scientists from Ural Federal University and Higher School of Economics are trying to understand whether the Internet has influenced Orthodox Christianity, and how the social institution and social practices could have been transformed in the conditions of widespread media, Eurek Alert reports. The project “Social media as a factor in the transformation of Orthodoxy…

Greece’s education and religious affairs ministry on Wednesday evening issued an angry response to the decision by members of the Church of Greece’s permanent Holy Synod to decline any discussion over changes in clerics’ payroll regime. The Tsipras government has tried over the past few months to achieve the Church’s acquiescence to a plan altering the…

On 20 March 2019, a session of the Supreme Church Council of the Russian Orthodox Church took place at the Supreme Church Council’s Hall of the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour under chairmanship of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia. At the beginning of the session His Holiness addressed those gathered and…

Construction of the new St. Sophia Orthodox Metropolitan Cathedral in Warsaw, Poland is proceeding at a fast pace, according to an announcement issued by Polish Orthodox Church, which also thanked the faithful for their donations.

The Russian Orthodox Church’s Metropolitan of Volo-kolamsk, His Eminence Hilarion, referred to the Russian Patriarch’s pending visit to North Korea, adding however, that a date has not been set. In a television appearance, His Eminence Hilarion, who is the chairman of the Moscow Church’s department of external relations, added that the Patriarch of Russia and…

  The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, this week granted an interview to the Serbian newspaper “Politika”. Among others, the Ecumenical Patriarch emphasized that “…whatever the Ecumenical Patriarchate is and holds, it owes to the Church. We are not a self-made entity, but an existence that arose with the grace of…

Members of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece’s permanent Holy Synod on Wednesday elected three new Metropolitans for a same-number of Metropolises, during the second day of the top ecclesiastical body’s extraordinary sessions. One of the elections, in fact, witnessed a recount, a subsequent tie and, finally, a legal opinion in order to fill the…

  The March 2019 issue of ‘The Good to Know’ online magazine of the Basilica News Agency is now available for download. This project initially started in 2017 was named ‘The Basilica monthly review,’ and was published at the beginning of every month until its rebranding this year. What you are about to look through…