The Special Envoy of the M.F.A for Combating Anti-Semitism and Safeguarding the Memory of the Holocaust, Dr. E. Lianos Liantis, meets with His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew April 18, 2019 | The Special Envoy for Combating Anti-Semitism and Safeguarding the Memory of the Holocaust, Dr. Efstathios Lianos Liantis, met with His All Holiness Ecumenical…

A delegation from the St. Andrew the First-Called Foundation in Russia will travel to Jerusalem for the ceremony of the Holy Fire and then deliver the sacred flame to Russia and a number of other countries, including the United States, the Foundation’s press service told RIA-Novosti. “The delegation of the St. Andrew’s Foundation will deliver…

Their Holinesses and Beatitudes, the Primates of the Orthodox Churches in the Middles East, held a meeting that gathered Theodoros II, Patriarch of Alexandria, John X, Patriarch of Antioch, Theophilos III, Patriarch of Jerusalem and Chrysostomos II, Archbishop of Cyprus, at the Cypriot’s Archbishopric Headquarters, on April 18, 2019. In their meeting, they prayed for…

The Mount Athos Center, in collaboration with the Athos Herbarium, presents an herbarium (dried flowers) exhibition entitled ‘The Botanical Treasure of the Mount Athos Peninsula’, which will be held in the exhibition space of the Mount Athos Center from 19 April until 15 June 2019. Mount Athos represents the most important nucleus of Orthodox monasticism,…

On the occasion of Lenten season, the seminarians at the Saint John of Damascus Institute of Theology at the University of Balamand carried out a series of pastoral visits to several parishes in the Archdiocese of Tripoli, Al-Koura, and their dependencies. In their visits, the seminarians joined the parishioners in the service of Great Compline…

  Romania’s Minister for Romanians Abroad, Natalia-Elena Intotero, this week visited the Patriarchate of Bucharest’s delegation in Jerusalem, as part of her official visit to Israel. She also toured Romanian sites in Jerusalem, travelled to Jericho and also expressed a particular interest in the Holy Lands.

Under the High Patronage of His Beatitude Patriarch John X of Antioch and All the East, a lecture titled “Artificial Intelligence and Theology” was presented at the Saint John of Damascus Institute of Theology at the University of Balamand on Tuesday, April 16, 2019 and on Thursday, April 18, 2019. The lecture was jointly presented…

  Father Nicolae Tanase referred to the central role, as he said, played by the family in the life of an individual and in promoting Christian values. The Romanian Orthodox cleric, who has six children of his own, has devoted his life to protecting orphans and abandoned children.

  A delegation of the Serbian army, which included military chaplains of the Serbian Orthodox Church, visited the US state of Ohio recently, following an invitation by Ohio National Guard Maj.-Gen. John Harris. Members of the delegation visited the National Veterans Memorial and Museum in Columbus, Ohio as well as Orthodox cathedrals in the area.