Students from the Russian Orthodox Church and other Local Orthodox Churches participate in the conference. The Serbian Orthodox Church is represented by Mr. Nikolaj Sapsaj, student of the Faculty of Orthodox Theology in Belgrade. The conference was opened by the Primate of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine of the Moscow Patriarchate, His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphrius…

On March 23, 2019, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations (DECR), celebrated the All-Night Vigil at the Church of ‘Joy to All the Afflicted’ Icon of the Mother of God on Bolshaya Ordynka street, Moscow. Clerics of the church concelebrated. The Academic Grand Choir ‘Masters of Choral…

Finally,  the Russian Orthodox Church’s Metropolitan bishop of Volokolamsk, His Eminence Hilarion, this week referred to the issue of sex change operations, warning that parents who imbue such ideas in their children should face legal sanctions.

The Patriarch of All Romania, His Beatitude Daniel, on Monday referred to the value of motherhood and human life, in his message during the Feast Day of the Annunciation. He also cited the major demographic crisis facing Romania.

  The Holy Light from the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem is again expected to reach Warsaw, Poland this Easter, for the 10th consecutive year, according to an announcement by the Polish Autocephalous Orthodox Church.

    The Primate of the Orthodox Church of the Ukraine, His Beatitude Metropolitan Filaret, who bears the title of honorary Patriarch, stressed this week that if the head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Moscow Patriarchate, Metropolitan Onuphrius of Kiev, decides to join the autocephalous Orthodox Church of the Ukraine, we will “accept him…

  An agreement was signed this week by the Russian Cultural and Science Center in Belgrade to continue Moscow’s support for the restoration of the St. Sava Cathedral in Belgrade, with the primary sponsor being the Russian company Gazprom Neft.  

    His All Holiness Bartholomew attempted to allay concerns in Serbia, expressed by both the Serbian Orthodox Church as well as a majority of the faithful in the country, who reportedly disagree with the Ecumenical Patriarchate’s recent decisions on autocephaly for the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. Bartholomew granted an interview, where he offered explanations over…

    The Patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East, His Beatitude John X, received a delegation of Ecumenical Patriarchate hierarchs this week at the Monastery of St. Elias, north of Beirut, Lebanon.