His Beatitude Daniel, the Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church, this week expressed his appreciation for all the faithful, which as he said, support the spiritual and material activities of the Romanian Church. Speaking in Bucharest, he said the Romanian Orthodox Church allocated 24 million euros in 2018 for various charities.

The Church has opened a soup kitchen for the needy in the Russian city of Penza, offering meals for up to 60 people a day. Local Orthodox hierarch Nikolai Groshev announced the creation of a charitable institution, called the “Source of Charity”, that will undertake various social services in the specific Russian region.

Archbishop Job of Telmessos has been appointed as the new dean of the Institute of Post-graduate Studies of Orthodox Theology, which is housed at the Orthodox Center of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, a center located outside Geneva, Switzerland. Archbishop Job succeeds Prof. Vlassios Fidas at the post, who resigned after serving for several years as dean,…

His Beatitude Anastasios, Archbishop of Tirana, Durrës and All Albania, officiated at a Church service on Sunday, Feb. 17, at the Resurrection Cathedral in Tirana, where he also delivered the sermon. Anastasios reminded the congregation that the Lenten Triodion has commenced, a period of particular devoutness for the Eastern Orthodox faithful.

Migration Policy Minister Dimitris Vitsas is in Istanbul this week to attend the sixth Budapest Process dialogue on migration issues. On the margins of the meeting, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholemew I received Vitsas at the Patriarchate, located in the Fanari district of the metropolis called Constantinople until 1923. Afterwards, Vitsas warmly referred to the Patriarch, whom…

Yesterday’s meeting between members of a Church of Greece-affiliated committee of dialogue, with the Education Minister, Kostas Gavroglu, proved fruitless. According to reports that emerged after the meeting, this specific round of talks may have reached an impasse. Members of the committee have also previously stressed that certain issues, such as the payroll regime for…

With the blessing of His Grace Bishop Irinej, and in conjunction with Protodeacon Jovan Anicic, Director of Religious Education for the Eastern American Diocese, St. George Serbian Orthodox Church in North Canton, Ohio hosted a Liturgical Music Workshop February 8th-10th, 2019. Participants came from across northeast Ohio, including multiple parishes and jurisdictions, for Friday evening’s…

Despite the ongoing persecution and propaganda against the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church that has only increasing since December 15’s “unification council” and the granting of a tomos of autocephaly to schismatics by Constantinople on January 6, its dioceses are remaining faithful to it. A number of them have already openly expressed their support for the…

Archbishop Mark of Berlin and Germany, hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, appealed to the members of the German Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops with an open letter in which he expressed his diocese’s position concerning the situation in the Orthodox world caused by the decisions of the Patriarchate of Constantinople to…