Archbishop Feofilakt of Pyatigorsk and Cherkessk, Mr. Yevgeny Kirdyapkin, assistant to the Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy to the North Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) and other members of the NCFD delegation visited Syria. The visit was blessed by His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia and supported by Mr. Alexander Matovnikov, Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy to…

In Timosoara, Romania, a book exhibition was inaugurated on Tuesday by the Orthodox Metropolis of Banat, entitled “In How Many Languages Does God Hear Our Prayers?”. The highlight of the exhibition is the display of 500 copies of the Bible from around the world in scores of different languages. The book exhibition is part of…

Hollywood actor Jim Caviezel, who portrayed Jesus Christ in the landmark 2004 film “The Passion of Christ”, this week again stressed the importance of his Christian faith and the intimate nature of the once-in-a-lifetime role. A video of Caviezel’s interview is posted today on the Orthodoxia news agency’s web page pages.

Shocking figures and reports continue to emerge this week over the deaths and persecution of Christians worldwide, with a latest estimate being 90,000 deaths alone in 2018. Some 600 million Christian faithful around the world were prevented, in some form or another, from exercising their faith as they choose. One-third of the Christian victims of…

On March 29, 2019, the official internet portal of the Albanian Orthodox Church published the text of a letter written by His Beatitude Anastasios, Archbishop of Tirana and All Albania, to the Primate of the Church of Constantinople. As it is noted in the introductory part of the publication, in his previous correspondence with the…

From March 23 to 29, 2019, Bishop Demetrios of Safita, Patriarchate of Antioch, was on a visit to Moscow to attend the international research-practice conference on ‘Ways of achieving interreligious peace: the role of theologians, diplomats and public leaders’, and to venerate shrines of the Russian Orthodox Church. On March 24, the St. Gregory Palamas…

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The Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church, His Holiness Irinej, on Monday bestowed the Order of St. Sava on Greece’s ambassador to Serbia, Ilias Iliadis. The Order of St. Sava is the highest decoration awarded by the Serbian Orthodox Church. In his comments during a ceremony at the Patriarchate in Belgrade, His Holiness Irinej again…

The Russian Orthodox Church-affiliated charity “Mercy” has opened a homeless support center in downtown Moscow, where people in need can wash their clothes, acquire personal hygiene products and seek first aid.