The Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church, His Beatitude Daniel, on Friday received US Ambassador-at-large Sam Brownback in Bucharest. Romania is the third stop on a regional tour by the top US diplomat, who holds the portfolio for International Religious Freedom, after visiting the semi-autonomous monastic community of Mt. Athos, in northern Greece, and Bulgaria….

Though Christian mother Asia Bibi has finally been allowed to leave Pakistan, there is another woman of faith who continues to fight her death sentence for allegedly “insulting Islam.” In a case heavily resembling Bibi’s, Shagufta Kauser and her husband Shafqat Emmanuel face death by hanging for violating the same archaic blasphemy laws that left…

The Executive Committee of the Joint Working Group (JWG) between the World Council of Churches and the Roman Catholic Church met in Warsaw, Poland, from 6 to 8 May 2019 under the leadership of His Eminence Metropolitan Nifon, Archbishop of Târgoviște (Romanian Orthodox Church) and His Excellency Diarmuid Martin, Catholic Archbishop of Dublin and Primate…

BOSTON – Bishop Andonios of Phasiane has resigned from the Chancery of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America hours after the resignation of Archbishop Demetrios. In an e-mail sent to the Clergy of Direct Archdiocesan District on Saturday afternoon, May 4, he wrote that “Ultimately leaving the Archdiocese will allow me to focus my time…

Members of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople’s Holy Synod today elected His Eminence Elpidoforos, the Patriarchate’s Metropolitan of Bursa, as the successor tp Elder Archbishop of America Demetrios. Demetrios stepped down from the ecclesiastical throne of the Orthodox Church of America last Saturday. Elpidoforos was born in 1967 in the Bosporus metropolis where the Mother…

At the invitation of His Beatitude, Metropolitan Tikhon, His Grace, Bishop Matthew of Sourozh, Interim Administrator of the Patriarchal Parishes in the USA, joined the members of the Holy Synod of Bishops of at a session devoted to ongoing plans for celebrations marking the 50th Anniversaries of the Granting of Autocephaly and the Glorification of…

Watch our news bulletin in English for Friday, May 10, 2019 with Charilaos Tzannis: 

ATLANTA – The Archdiocesan Council of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, which is meeting for its regular Spring meeting in Atlanta, May 9-10, 2019, received yesterday a request from the Ecumenical Patriarchate asking for the Council’s opinion according to article 13 of the Charter to be submitted today by 2:00 p.m. EDT. After consideration,…

The Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia, Priests and Clergy of Georgia, hold a meeting with the Georgian Ambassador to the United Kingdom Tamar Beruchashvili and diplomats of the European and Latin American countries accredited to the UK on May 9. According to the Patriarchate of Georgia, their visit took place within the diplomatic tour of Georgia’s…