A grand opening dedication ceremony (thyranoixia) of the St. Bartholomew the Apostle Parish in Reykjavik, Iceland was held last Sunday, with the archieratical Divine Liturgy co-celebrated by the Metropolitan of Sweden and All Scandinavia, Exarch of the Northern Lands, His Eminence Cleopas. The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, who visited Iceland…

  The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, opened the 7th International Student Literature Conference at the Greek-language Zografeion Lyceum on Wednesday, with the conference this year entitled “Antonis Samarakis: The Eternal Youth”. Pupils from the around the Bosporus metropolis are participating, along with students from Greece, Cyprus and other countries. Academics,…

With a well-attended retreat at Saint George Greek Orthodox Church in Bethesda, Maryland, Y2AM (Department of Youth and Young Adult Ministry), has concluded another successful season of “Be the Bee” retreats. Better known as “BeeTreats,” these events bring together youth (6th-12th grades) and adults for a day full of worship, fellowship, and connection. In all,…

The Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia will celebrate the canonization of a 20th-century hieromartyr in June. New Martyr Stanislav Nasadil, who suffered and died in a concentration camp in Gospić, Croatia in 1941, was recently added to the Church’s calendar. The local canonization of the hieromartyr will take place at the Cathedral of…

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  A spokesman for Turkey’s ruling party, AKP, this week again confirmed that the Erdogan-dominated Turkish government wants to reconvert the Hagia Sophia into a Muslim mosque. In a briefing of foreign correspondents in the country, spokesman Omer Celik responded to a question by Sigma TV by saying that Erdogan’s pre-election pledge for Hagia Sophia…

  An emotional pilgrimage was undertaken recently to the isolated and mountainous Syrian town of Maaloula, located some 60 kilometers northeast of Damascus on the border with Lebanon. Groups of Syrian nationals living in Russia, and Russians residing in war-torn Syria, visited the historic town, the scene of repeated clashes in 2013 and 2014 between…

  The Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, His Holiness Kirill, this week referred to the significant role that the Church can play in diplomacy and the formulation of Moscow’s foreign policy. The Russian Patriarch made the statement during a meeting with students of the Russian foreign ministry’s academy of diplomacy.

  The Orthodox Church is the institution that enjoys the biggest percentage of citizens’ trust in Georgia, according to a recent study by the local affiliate of Transparency International. The survey shows that 55 percent of respondents in the country trust the Church, followed by teachers, at 31 percent, and physicians, at 22 percent. Conversely,…