Metropolitan of Kiev and All Ukraine, His Beatitude Epiphanius, has requested help from the United Nations, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, the European Union, and all democratic countries, as he said. The Primate of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, in a statement, said “invaders in the Donbass region are expected to confiscate 36…

Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, His Beatitude Ieronymos II, on Tuesday morning officiated at a ceremony blessing the opening of a new round of training programs at the Holy Archdiocese of Athens’ Pastoral Training Institute. Foto: Christos Bonis 

Negative reactions against a provocative statement by Education and Religious Affairs Minister Kostas Gavroglu, who on Monday claimed that a portion of clerics in the country were “blackmailing” the government ahead of general elections in 2019, continued unabated on Tuesday. The association representing Orthodox clerics in Greece emphasized that “clerics never blackmail anyone … if…

Sunday, February 24, His Beatitude Patriarch Neophyte celebrates his 6th enthronement anniversary as Primate of Bulgarian Orthodox Church. Patriarch Neophyte (Bulgarian: Патриарх Неофит, secular name Simeon Nikolov Dimitrov; born 15 October 1945, Sofia) is the current head of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church from 24 February 2013. Prior to his election, he was the Metropolitan of…

Yesterday, February 22, the Patriarch Theodore II of Alexandria and All Africa visited Kananga of Congo. The Patriarch arrived at the city accompanied by the Holy Archbishops Nikolaos of Amathundos, Meletius of Katanga, Nikiforos of Kinshasa, and Theodosius of Kananga. He attended the doxology at Saint Andreas Cathedral, while Metropolitan Nikiforos of Kinshasa addressed the…

Industrialization coupled with the smell of oil fields has been drawing Serbian immigrants for decades. By the end of the sixties, the Karakasevic family moved to Texas, followed by the Simic and Palmer families in the eighties, who later became pillars of our church established in 1999. At the outset of the 1990s, there was…

A video posted on the Orthodoxia news agency’s website shows the loading late last month of a container carrying 25 tons of humanitarian aid to the Orthodox mission in Ivory Coast, in west Africa,. The aid was collected and sent by the Orthodox Missionary Fraternity.

Αn educational seminar was organized on Saturday in Tirana by the Orthodox Autocephalous Church of Albania’s Spirit of Love Foundation. Some 170 educators attended the seminar. His Beatitude, Archbishop Anastasios of Tirana, Durrës and All Albania, the president of the Foundation, addressed educators, whom he called partners in the Church’s pious work.

  The US Supreme Court this week is expected to decide whether a 40-foot, 16-ton Latin Cross standing on public land in Bladensburg, Maryland, conforms to constitutional Church-state separation in America. The now publicly maintained memorial was built in 1925 to honor 49 local men who fought and died in World War I.