Divine Liturgy was served by all of the parish priests: Archpriests Darko Spasojevic and Dobrivoje Milunovic and Priest Nikolaj Kostur. S.S.S. Branko Radichevich Choir, directed by Jelena Stojakovic, sang responses at the liturgy. Also, many servers participated in the Altar. After the Prayer behind the Ambo, the clergy, servers and a large number of children…

Serbian Orthodox Metropolitan Porfirije of Zagreb-Ljubljana visited the President of the Government of Republic of Croatia Mr. Andrej Plenkovic at Banski Dvori in Zagreb on 18 March 2019. Prime Minister Plenkovic and Metropolitan Porfirije expressed a desire to continue dialogue and partnership between representatives of the Government and State institutions with representatives of Churches and…

  The state is on the side of the church that supports it, and therefore there’s nothing wrong in it obliging its officials to influence parishes, says Philaret Denisenko, the ideological leader of the Ukrainian autocephaly movement and “Honorary Patriarch” of the new schismatic church. “The state contributes—it’s a fact,” Philaret said in a recent…

A word from Met. Tikhon of the OCA in the Holy Trinity Orthodox Cathedral, San Francisco, California In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. My dear brothers and sisters in Christ: We gather this evening to celebrate the Sunday of Orthodoxy and to pray together at this…

Persecution and the seizures of its churches is making the canonical Church in Ukraine only stronger, said His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry of Kiev and All Ukraine to the ambassadors of Orthodox countries on the Feast of the Triumph of Orthodoxy… On March 17, 2019, the day of the Triumph of Orthodoxy, His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry…

  In Athens on Tuesday, a closely watch permanent Holy Synod meeting convened immediately after a Divine Liturgy. Church hierarchs have the government’s various proposals and demands for changes in Church-state relations in the predominately Christian Orthodox nation on their agenda. In a brief comment, Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, His Beatitude Ieronymos II,…

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras this week referred to the shocking and deadly terrorist attack against two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, last Friday. In a partisan political event revolving around the future of young people in Greece and the rest of Europe, held at an Athens theater on Monday evening, the Greek premier emphasized…

Three mayors of municipalities in southeast coastal Athens have publicly endorsed the candidacy of Archimandrite Alexios Psoinos for the post of new Metropolitan of the Glyfada-Helleniko-Voula-Vouliagmeni and Vari Holy Metropolis. Alexios is currently the first secretary of the specific Metropolis. The three mayors addressed a relevant letter to members of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of…

Московский фестиваль хоров воскресных школ пройдет 24 марта в столичном концертном зале “Зарядье”, сообщили организаторы. Молодежный хоровой форум проводится ежегодно с 2012 года, в этом году в нем примут участие более 300 детей. Специальным гостем фестиваля станет Московский Синодальный хор под управлением заслуженного артиста России Алексея Пузакова, один из старейших духовных и профессиональных хоров в…