The first part of the picturesque Black Sea province of Trabzon’s great monument Sümela Monastery will finally be opened to visitors on May 18 following comprehensive restoration and rock improvement works. Sümela Monastery, which is located on a steep and rocky area in the Karadağ Mountain in Altındere Valley and offers its guests a combination…

On the 4th Sunday of Great Lent, March 25/April 7, 2019, according to the mobile cycle of Triodion feasts, the Patriarchate celebrated the Feast of the Annunciation according to the stable cycle of the feasts in the book of Minaion. This feast was celebrated at the place where the Annunciation took place, at the town…

His Beatitude, Metropolitan Tikhon celebrated the Divine Liturgy on the Fourth Sunday of Great Lent—April 7, 2019—at Saint Nicholas Cathedral, Washington, DC, marking the commemoration of the repose of his patron, Saint Tikhon of Moscow, and the anniversary of His Beatitude’s monastic tonsure. Joining Metropolitan Tikhon were Hieromonk Alexis [Trader] and the cathedral clergy. At…

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The Montenegro-Littoral Metropolis of the Serbian Orthodox Church suffers great oppression from the authorities, as exemplified by the situation around the planned demolition of a baptistery on the Adriatic coast, His Eminence Metropolitan Amfilohije of Montenegro said on national television, reports RIA-Novosti. Montenegrin authorities reported on April 2 that the Metropolis’ newly-built baptistery on the…

Unknown assailants robbed and desecrated the Church of St. Nicholas in the Ukrainian village of Korolevka in the Zhytomyr Province on the night of the great feast of the Annunciation of the Most Holy Theotokos, reports the site of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. The crime was discovered by a parishioner who arrived on the day…

The Orthodox youth brotherhood of the Polish Autocephalous Orthodox Church is organizing a food drive in Warsaw, with supermarket shoppers in the Polish capital asked to contribute food that will then be distributed to those in need.

International fallout and condemnations continued over last week’s decision by the Sultan of Brunei to fully implement sharia law in the tiny oil-rich state located on the large Pacific island of Borneo. Among other sentences, converting from Islam or leaving the specific religion is punished by death in the absolute monarchy, or, in a best-case…

Concerns amongst India’s sizable and often persecuted Christian population continued over the recent period, ahead of general elections on April 11. Worries revolve around whether an election victory by the current ruling party will worsen conditions for Christians on the Indian subcontinent. While making tremendous strides over recent decades in numerous sectors, India continues to…