The Jordanitissa Wonderworking Icon of the Mother of God was brought on Thursday from the Romanian Settlement in Jerusalem to Icoanei Church, a church in Bucharest named after the an old icon of Our Lady sitting on throne offered by Ruler Prince Saint Constantine Brancoveanu, marking the beginning of this year’s festivities dedicated to the…

The situation of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church has considerably worsened with the granting of ‘autocephaly’ to ‘the Orthodox Church in Ukraine’, states the report on Civic Space and Fundamental Freedoms Ahead of the Presidential, Parliamentary and Local Elections in Ukraine in 2019-2020, published by UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. The reports…

Though cremation was legalized in Greece nearly 13 years ago, the traditionally-Orthodox nation has yet to see its first crematorium, as the movement has faced considerable opposition from the influential Orthodox Church which forbids cremation. However, another significant step in the process towards cremation was taken recently as Greece’s Environment and Energy Minister Giorgios Stathakis…

His Holiness Patriarch Kirill In the evening of February 25, 2015, Wednesday of the first week of Great Lent, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia served Great Compline with the Great Canon of St. Andrew of Crete in the Church of the Resurrection of St. Andrew’s Monastery in Moscow. He offered the…

12 members of Greece’s presidential guard, known as Evzones, will travel to Adelaide, Australia for events to mark Greek Independence Day, according to the Foundation for Hellenic Studies.

Proto-Exarchos Alexis, the director of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch’s department of Ecumenical Relations and Development, this week said Orthodox Christians in Syria are depending on the support of Russia for the reconstruction of Churches and monasteries destroyed by jihadist terrorists, during the eight-year war in the Mideast country.

The Serbian Orthodox Church this week delivered its position on the issue of autocephaly for the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, in a letter addressed to the world’s recognized Orthodox Churches. The Serbian Orthodox Church’s Patriarchate notes that it does not recognize the autocephaly of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, while listing the reasons for its decision. In…

The Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, His Holiness Kirill, this week stressed that “we are all brothers in faith, we belong to the one and indivisible Orthodox Church”, in greeting Greek pilgrims to the Monastery of the Savior in Moscow.

Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, His Beatitude Ieronymos II, on Thursday received a newly appointed deputy minister for migration policy, Angelos Tolkas.  In his comments, the new deputy minister praised the work of the Church and its affiliated charity, “Apostoli”, in dealing with the migrant/refugee crisis, which erupted in the eastern Aegean in 2015….