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22.03.2019 | 17:20
Tronos Byzantine Choir to perform at European Parliament in April
The Tronos Byzantine Choir of the Romanian Patriarchate will perform at the European Parliament on April 11 as part of a three-day series of cultural events organized in the context of Romania’s Presidency of the EU Council. ExpoRomania Bruxelles will take place on April 10-12, 2019, and will include a display of paintings by Horia…
22.03.2019 | 17:17
British Library returns historic documents stolen from Greek Monastery in 1979
The British Library has returned three rare historic documents that had been illegally removed from the Panagia Chrysopodaritissa Monastery in Achaia in 1979, Greek City Times reports. According to the Greek Culture and Sports Ministry, the items which were returned to the Greek Embassy in London on Thursday to be sent on to Greece, include…
22.03.2019 | 17:16
Numismatic issues dedicated to 550 years since the consecration of the Putna Monastery’s church
The National Bank of Romania has put recently into circulation, for numismatic purposes, a gold coin and a brass collector coin dedicated to 550 years since the consecration of the Putna Monastery’s church. Obverse of the gold coin: an image of the Putna Monastery’s church, the inscription “ROMANIA” in an arc, the face value “100…
22.03.2019 | 17:12
#StrongerThanDeath | Six ways to foster silence this Lent
We are on the threshold of the second Sunday of Great Lent dedicated to Saint Gregory Palamas also known as the theologian of the uncreated divine energies. Since the work of the Holy Archbishop of Thessalonica refers to contemplation, quietude, spiritual peace, we thought to list six ways to foster silence and implicitly calmness, as…
22.03.2019 | 16:35
Sunday of Orthodoxy at the Phanar
On Sunday, March 17, 2019, the Sunday of Orthodoxy and First Sunday of Great Lent, His All-Holiness solemnly concelebrated the Divine Liturgy together with Metropolitans Elder Dimitrios of the Princes’ Islands, Augustinos of Germany, Germanos of Tranoupolis, Sotirios of Toronto, Makarios of Aneon, Eugenios of Rethymno and Avlopotamos, Amphilochios of Ganou and Chora, Damaskinos of…
22.03.2019 | 14:26
Russian Orthodox Church representatives attend conference of compatriots in Shanghai
On March 19-20, 2019, the 13th regional conference of Russian compatriots’ organizations in Asia ‘Russian-Speaking Diasporas for Cooperation’ took place in Shanghai. It united representatives of Russian compatriots’ organizations in China, Mongolia, Japan, Thailand, Singapore, Cambodia, Nepal and the Republic of Korea. The Russian Orthodox Church was represented by Archimandrite Alexander (Zarkeshev), rector of the…
21.03.2019 | 16:52
Restoration of St. Anne cathedral in occupied Famagusta
People from throughout Cyprus on Wednesday traveled to the Turkish-occupied coastal town Famagusta to witness a ceremony marking the completion of conservation works at the church of St. Anne, as well the neighboring tanners’ mosque. Efforts to restore the two houses of worship in the walled city of Famagusta began in September 2017, on…
21.03.2019 | 16:38
Patriarch Kirill on problems facing clerics’ families
The Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, His Holiness Kirill, opened a supreme ecclesiastical council by referring to the problems faced by clerics’ families in our era. The Patriarch of the Moscow Church said: “… the crisis in family values, which has harmed today’s society, has also affected the families of our priests. There…
21.03.2019 | 16:36
Russian physicist on miracle of Holy Fire: Plasma phenomenon inside Church’s interior inexplicable, without justification
Another offensive reference this week, by a Greek author, to what the Orthodox faithful consider as the miracle of the Holy Light, again brought to the forefront a scientific mission supervised by Russian physicist Andrey Volkov, an associate professor in material science, during Easter in 2008. The project was organized by Prof. Alexander Moskovsky…
