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05.03.2019 | 18:06
Changes in Church-state relations will be submitted to hierarchs on Wednesday
A session of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece’s standing Holy Synod was concluded on Tuesday, although a highly anticipated framework for implementing changes in Church-state relations, something promoted by the current government, will be submitted to hierarchs on Wednesday. According to information learned by the Orthodoxia news agency, members of a committee of dialogue,…
05.03.2019 | 13:25
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk meets with Mr. Franklin Graham, President of Billy Graham Evangelistic Association
On 3 March 2019, at the residence of the Church of ‘Joy of All Who Sorrow’ Icon of the Mother of God in Bolshaya Ordynka Street, Moscow, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, met with Mr. Franklin Graham, President of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, who…
04.03.2019 | 18:15
The Archbishop of Simferopol and Crimea was arrested
The Archbishop of Simferopol and Crimea this week charged that his recent arrest by Russian authorities aimed to besmirch his reputation. The Ukrainian hierarch was detained at a police precinct before being released without charges being filed.
04.03.2019 | 18:12
Tomorrow the Holy Synod of Greece’s Church
The Church of Greece’s standing Holy Synod on Tuesday is expected to consider a multi-page “implementation plan”, recently submitted by the education ministry regarding its proposals for revisions in the Constitution, and specifically changes affecting Church-state relations. According to sources that spoke to the Orthodoxia news agency, members of a committee of dialogue tasked with…
04.03.2019 | 12:18
Patriarch Theodore of Alexandria conveyed his condolences for the train crash in Egypt
Patriarch Theodore II of Alexandria expressed, from Addis Ababa where he is at the moment, his personal and all Orthodox Church of Africa’s deep sorrow for the tragic accident at the Cairo Railway Station, which eventually caused 22 deaths and injured at least 40 people. In his statements, he sent his sincere condolences to Egyptian…
04.03.2019 | 10:44
PATRIARCHATE OF ALEXANDRIA – PRESS RELEASE
PATRIARCHATE OF ALEXANDRIA – PRESS RELEASE His Beatitude Theodoros II, Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, while on a lengthy Missionary journey, was informed sadly of the tragic consequences of the recent devastating floods in his birthplace, Megalonisos, Crete and immediately prayed for the repose of the souls of those who had lost…
04.03.2019 | 9:33
Ecumenical Patriarch meets with Archbishops of Cyprus and Albania
His Most Divine All-Holiness, the Archbishop of Constantinople, New Rome, and Ecumenical Patriarch, Bartholomew I, on Saturday met with the Archbishop of Cyprus, His Beatitude Chrysostomos II, and the Archbishop of Tirana, Durres and All Albania, His Beatitude Anastasios. The three pre-eminent Eastern Orthodox hierarchs discussed issues of mutual interest. A reception was held…
04.03.2019 | 9:29
Well-known Christian advocate Hank Hanegraaff on his conversion to Eastern Orthodoxy, and his battle to beat cancer
US author and talk-show host Hank Hanegraaff, a former Evangelical, this week stated that he faced a 2017 diagnosis of lymphoma with serenity, following his conversion to Orthodox Christianity. The well-known Christian advocate also spoke about his journey – literally and spiritually – to the Holy Mountain, the semi-autonomous monastic community of Mt. Athos, in…
04.03.2019 | 9:25
Michio Kaku: There is a God
World-renowned US physicist Michio Kaku was quoted in an interview this week as saying that most top physicists in the world believe in God, because of how the universe is designed. He was responding to a question on the meaning of life and God, while adding: “Ours is a universe of order, beauty, elegance,…
