This year in his Christmas message, His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church, stressed that the Nativity of the Lord is the celebration of „gifts offered to children, the elderly, orphans, the sick and lonely, but also to all our dear ones”. 2018 Nativity message of His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel of Romania The…

The Belarusian Orthodox Church has decided at a general assembly of the Minsk Diocese to declare the Autocephalous Ukrainian Orthodox Church schismatic. The relevant decision was published on the official website of the Belarusian Orthodox Church. “The so-called Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Ukraine headed by so-called Metropolitan Epiphaniy of Kiev and All Ukraine shall be…

ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN ARCHDIOCESE OF BYBLOS, BOTRIS AND DEPENDENCIES (MOUNT LEBANON) Broumana (Lebanon), Nativity 2018 Pastoral Message for the Nativity of our Lord of H.E. Metropolitan Silouan of Byblos, Botris and dependencies “Where the Christ was to be born?” (Matthew 2: 4) While we celebrate the feast of the Incarnation of our Lord, I feel ashamed…

The annual diocesan meeting of the Moscow Diocese was held on Thursday, Dec. 20, 2018 at Christ the Savior Cathedral under the chairmanship of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, at which the Russian primate touched upon the egregious interference of the Patriarchate of Constantinople in the internal life of the Ukrainian…

More than 1,000 children and their parents filled the courtyard at the diocesan building in Huși, Romania on Tuesday to enjoy a Christmas program and receive gifts from the Church. The 1,400 children from the diocese’s rural parishes filled the yard to overflowing. “I’m very glad that this yard is full of innocence, given the…

In this year’s Christmas Message, His Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew warns about contemporary ‘nestorianism’ understood as secularization and scientism, and a new form of ‘monophysitism’ represented by tendencies to demonize the body and natural man, by puritanism and the syndromes of “purity,” by fruitless introverted spirituality and various mysticisms. Patriarchal Proclamation of Christmas 2018 by…

On 20 December 2018, the bilateral commission for dioceses and parishes in far abroad countries established with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia held its session at the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations with the participation of representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia. Taking…

On 19 December 2018, commemoration day of St. Nicholas the Archbishop of Myra in Lycia, the presentation of the Italian edition of a book entitled “The Bringing of the Relics of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker from Bari to Russia (21 st of May – 28 th of July 2017)” took place at the Basilica of…

On December 18, 2018, with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate department for external church relations (DECR) arrived in Bari, Italy. On December 19, the commemoration day of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, Metropolitan Hilarion presided over the Divine Liturgy in…