The restoration of a recently collapsed church, located within Nicosia’s buffer zone, is a matter for the two leaders to decide, Takis Hadjidemetriou, the Greek Cypriot Head of the Technical Committee on Cultural Heritage has told CNA. Part of St. James church, which was in need for immediate restoration works, collapsed after recent heavy rainfall….

Your Eminence, Very Most Reverend Master Metropolitan! Your Eminences, Your Grace, divinely wise archpastors! “Fear and trembling are come upon me, and darkness hath covered me.” – Psalm 54:6 “I am straitened on every side.” – Daniel 13:22 With fear and trembling in my heart, with great turmoil I come to your summons, for if…

On Wednesday, February 13, 2019, the Holy and Sacred Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, chaired by His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, appointed Archimandrite Agathangelos Siskos as the new Patriarchal Archivist. (Source: theorthodoxworld.com)

Bulgarian Orthodox Church Lovech Metropolitan Gavriil, now at the centre of a controversy over a stance that falsely claimed to represent the church regarding the government’s draft Strategy for the Child, has issued a statement in an apparent attempt to explain his actions. Posted on the website of the church’s Patriarchate on February 8 and…

Established more than 600 years ago, the Sretensky monastery in the centre of Moscow was a place of imprisonment and execution of those persecuted for their political or religious beliefs during repressive Soviet times. Right beside the monastery reborn in mid-1990s, modern Orthodox Theological seminary has been founded, and impressive monastery church dedicated to New…

On Wednesday, February 13, 2019, the Delegation of the Ecumenical Patriarchate met with the President of the Greek opposition party New Democracy (ND), Kyriakos Mitsotakis, as well as with the Secretary General of the Greek Parliament’s ND group, Konstantinos Tsiaras, in the Hall of the Hellenic Parliament. According to a party announcement the Patriarchate’s delegation…

The Russian Orthodox Church sees a direct connection between the expulsion of Bishop Gedeon (Kharon) of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church from Ukraine and his recent appeal to the U.S. Congress over the persecution of the canonical Church. “It was the words of truth he expressed to the U.S. side that caused such hatred of the…

Bishop Gedeon (Kharon), the vicar of the Tithe Monastery in Kiev and a vicar of the Kiev Metropolitanate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, who was stopped at the Borispol Airport in Kiev on Wednesday evening upon returning from the United States, was deported back to the U.S. on Thursday morning. “His Grace has been deported…

The abbot of Tithe monastery, who told the US Congress about persecutions of the canonical Church and oppression of UOC believers, was detained at Borispol airport. The abbot of the UOC Desiatinny (Tithe – Ed.) monastery, Bishop Gedeon (Kharon) of Makarov was detained at the Borispol airport and is about to be deported, Protodeacon Anthony,…