Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan continued a pre-election crescendo of nationalist and Islamist-tinged campaign speeches this week, as his ruling AKP party is reportedly faring worse than expected in opinion polls for Turkey’s two biggest municipalities – and ahead of local elections at the end of March. Following a recent interview on state television, in…

On March 25, 2019, Metropolitan Hilarion, head of the Moscow Patriarchate department for external church relations (DECR), met in Moscow with President of Lebanon Michel Aoun. The high guest was accompanied by Lebanese Minister of Foreign Affairs Gebran Bassil, Ms. Mireille Aoun, special adviser to the president, Mr. Rafik Chlala, presidential media adviser; and other…

His Holiness the Serbian Patriarch Irinej spoke on March 24, 2019, in Nis at the beginning of the state ceremony marking the twentieth anniversary since the beginning of the NATO aggression upon Serbia.  With sounds of warning sirens and extinguishing lights, the central observance of the 20th anniversary of the beginning of the bombing…

Students from the Russian Orthodox Church and other Local Orthodox Churches participate in the conference. The Serbian Orthodox Church is represented by Mr. Nikolaj Sapsaj, student of the Faculty of Orthodox Theology in Belgrade. The conference was opened by the Primate of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine of the Moscow Patriarchate, His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphrius…

On March 23, 2019, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations (DECR), celebrated the All-Night Vigil at the Church of ‘Joy to All the Afflicted’ Icon of the Mother of God on Bolshaya Ordynka street, Moscow. Clerics of the church concelebrated. The Academic Grand Choir ‘Masters of Choral…

Finally,  the Russian Orthodox Church’s Metropolitan bishop of Volokolamsk, His Eminence Hilarion, this week referred to the issue of sex change operations, warning that parents who imbue such ideas in their children should face legal sanctions.

The Patriarch of All Romania, His Beatitude Daniel, on Monday referred to the value of motherhood and human life, in his message during the Feast Day of the Annunciation. He also cited the major demographic crisis facing Romania.

  The Holy Light from the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem is again expected to reach Warsaw, Poland this Easter, for the 10th consecutive year, according to an announcement by the Polish Autocephalous Orthodox Church.

    The Primate of the Orthodox Church of the Ukraine, His Beatitude Metropolitan Filaret, who bears the title of honorary Patriarch, stressed this week that if the head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Moscow Patriarchate, Metropolitan Onuphrius of Kiev, decides to join the autocephalous Orthodox Church of the Ukraine, we will “accept him…