The Skopje-based state-run MIA news agency on Saturday reported that a top diplomat, Amb. Viktor Gaber , tolds participants at a joint meeting – held to consider changes in text books – that the issue of deciding on an exact definition of “irredentism” will be on the agenda of the next session. One of the…

Today, Saturday March 2, marks the anniversary of the official liberation of the eastern Aegean island of Samos, the date when two Hellenic Navy vessels landed on the already semi-autonomous isle in 1913. Samos had been governed as a tributary of the Ottoman empire since 1834, with a Christian of Greek descent chosen as a…

The Holy Cross Brooklyn Outreach Center continues its long-standing efforts to collect food, clothing and personal hygiene items for homeless people in the New York City Borough.

In Bucharest, the Romanian Orthodox Church this week issued a guide for the proper use of the Internet and the role of the clergy in social media. His Beatitude, Daniel, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church, noted, in a statement that “…our Church has a duty to use social media in order to communicate the…

Bishop Viktor, a spokesman for the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, referred to an initiative to brief the European community and organizations over the ecclesiastical situation that has arisen in the Ukraine. Bishop Viktor arrived in Strasbourg and met with European officials.

Archpriest Dimitry Smirnov, of the Russian Orthodox Church,  this week referred to “the mass murder of babies”, in condemning the practice of abortion. Fr. Smirnov, who heads the Russian Church’s Committee for Family, Motherhood, and Children, spoke at a medical conference, where he likened abortion to the Holocaust. The well-known Russian hierarch repeated that the Russian Orthodox…

His Holiness Neophyte, the Patriarch of All Bulgaria and Metropolitan of Sofia, this week received the Ukraine’s new ambassador to Sofia, Vitaly Moskalenko.  In reference to the issue of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, His Holiness Neophyte said the Bulgarian Orthodox Church’s Holy Synod has established a special committee that is examining all necessary documents and…

His Divine Beatitude Theodore II, the Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, this week expressed the Church’s and his personal sorrow over a train station accident in Cairo on Wednesday, which cost the lives of at least 20 people and the serious injury of dozens.

A two-day conference in Athens on the topic of “Ecclesiastical and Religious Diplomacy” concluded on Friday. The conference was organized and hosted by the Greek foreign ministry. Metropolitan Hierotheos of the Holy Metropolis of Nafpaktos and Agios Vlasios, in south-central Greece, spoke on the subject of Athens’ strategy regarding ecclesiastical issues outside Greece.  He emphasized…