The state is on the side of the church that supports it, and therefore there’s nothing wrong in it obliging its officials to influence parishes, says Philaret Denisenko, the ideological leader of the Ukrainian autocephaly movement and “Honorary Patriarch” of the new schismatic church. “The state contributes—it’s a fact,” Philaret said in a recent…

A word from Met. Tikhon of the OCA in the Holy Trinity Orthodox Cathedral, San Francisco, California In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. My dear brothers and sisters in Christ: We gather this evening to celebrate the Sunday of Orthodoxy and to pray together at this…

Persecution and the seizures of its churches is making the canonical Church in Ukraine only stronger, said His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry of Kiev and All Ukraine to the ambassadors of Orthodox countries on the Feast of the Triumph of Orthodoxy… On March 17, 2019, the day of the Triumph of Orthodoxy, His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry…

  In Athens on Tuesday, a closely watch permanent Holy Synod meeting convened immediately after a Divine Liturgy. Church hierarchs have the government’s various proposals and demands for changes in Church-state relations in the predominately Christian Orthodox nation on their agenda. In a brief comment, Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, His Beatitude Ieronymos II,…

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras this week referred to the shocking and deadly terrorist attack against two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, last Friday. In a partisan political event revolving around the future of young people in Greece and the rest of Europe, held at an Athens theater on Monday evening, the Greek premier emphasized…

Three mayors of municipalities in southeast coastal Athens have publicly endorsed the candidacy of Archimandrite Alexios Psoinos for the post of new Metropolitan of the Glyfada-Helleniko-Voula-Vouliagmeni and Vari Holy Metropolis. Alexios is currently the first secretary of the specific Metropolis. The three mayors addressed a relevant letter to members of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of…

Московский фестиваль хоров воскресных школ пройдет 24 марта в столичном концертном зале “Зарядье”, сообщили организаторы. Молодежный хоровой форум проводится ежегодно с 2012 года, в этом году в нем примут участие более 300 детей. Специальным гостем фестиваля станет Московский Синодальный хор под управлением заслуженного артиста России Алексея Пузакова, один из старейших духовных и профессиональных хоров в…

Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Markos Bolaris this week said the exercise of religious and ecclesiastical diplomacy was a challenge for the foreign ministry, especially for a country like Greece, which has been at the cross-roads of civilizations and peoples over past centuries. He spoke during an interview granted to the Athens News Agency, the country’s…

US President Donald Trump on Monday afternoon hosted the annual White House event in honor of the March 25th Greek Independence Day. At a standing-room only event held at the White House’s East Room, and in the presence of many distinguished Greek-Americans, Cabinet members, US lawmakers and the ambassadors of Greece and Cyprus to the…