In Damascus, the Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, His Beatitude John X, this week received the minister for presidential affairs, Mansour Azzam, who represented Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The meeting came on the occasion of last weekend’s Holy Easter celebration, with talks subsequently revolving on the situation in the war-ravaged Mideast country, and…

In extreme northern Greece, the Metropolitan of Dryinoupolis Pogoniani and Konitsa, His Eminence Andreas, this week referred to the recent negative developments in the Himara district, a coastal region in south-central Albania that hosts an ancient and vibrant ethnic Greek community. Among others, the Greek Orthodox Metropolitan called on the government in Athens and political…

The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, is in Poland on Wednesday to participate in the 31st annual “March of the Living”, at the site of the Auschwitz concentration camp, along with up to 20,000 other marchers. The event commemorates the millions of victims, including six million Jews, exterminated in the Nazi…

More than 100 people were baptized as Orthodox Christians in just three days recently. The baptisms were officiated by the Archimandrite of the Diocese South Madagascar, the Right Reverend Prodromos, who noted that his ecclesiastical jurisdiction is three times the size of Greece, and hosts some 7,000 Orthodox Christians — a small parish, as he…

Today our Church venerates the martyrs Hesperus and Zoe, as well as their children Kyriakos and Theodoulos. The family lived as slaves in the household of a Roman during the reign of Hadrian in the 2nd century A.D. Rather than renounce their faith, they chose a martyr’s death in a furnace. Today, the Orthodox Church…

The Orthodox Christian faithful in Seychelles celebrated the Resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ on Sunday 28th April at the Berjaya Beau Vallon Bay Resort, in a service held by Protopresbyter-Stavrophor Sergios Janosevic, which marks the 10 year anniversary of the parish’s establishment in Seychelles. The parish is part of the Greek Orthodox Church of Alexandria…

The Easter Liturgy in Vlasi Church in Cetinje was officiated by the principal of the Seminary of St. Peter of Cetinje, protopresbyter-staurophor Gojko Perovic while deacon Dusan Bigovic was in attendance. The choir “Njegos” from Cetinje and graduates of the Seminary sang responses. The temple was too small to receive a multitude of believers, and…

On Sunday, 28 April 2019, His Grace Bishop Irinej of Novi Sad celebrated the Paschal matins and officiated the Holy Liturgy in the Cathedral church in Novi Sad with concelebration of His Grace Bishop Isihije of Mohacs, clergy of the Cathedral church and deacons of Novi Sad, in the presence of a great number of…

The feast-day of the Resurrection of Christ in the Orthodox Archbishopric of Ohrid, despite the court persecution on a religious basis, was celebrated this year with a special Eucharistic joy. His Beatitude Jovan, Archbishop of Ohrid and Metropolitan of Skopje, officiated the Holy Hierarchal Liturgy at the Stavropegic Monastery of St. John Chrysostom in Bitola….