Georgian Patriarch and Catholicos Ilia II met with representatives of the Red Cross in Georgia, the Georgian Patriarchate reported. The meeting took place on Friday, 16 November, 2018 at the Patriarchate in Tbilisi. Patriarch Iliya blessed the head of the organization and thanked for the humanitarian and social activity that the Red Cross is doing…

The National Cathedral ‘includes in itself all our defeats and humiliations over the last 100 years. It rises as a victory. It will change only the life of those who constantly seek God with the persistence of the soldiers who know they are defending their family and nation.’ ‘For the others who are more superficial,…

The Orthodox Bishops’ Conference of Benelux posted this official statement on their website: Brussels – On Wednesday November 14, 2018, the Orthodox Bishops’ Conference of Benelux (CEOB) met for the sixteenth time at the headquarters of the Orthodox Metropolis, 71 Avenue Charbo. The meeting was chaired by His Eminence Metropolitan Athenagoras of Belgium (Ecumenical Patriarchate)….

Meeting in an extraordinary session on Friday, November 16, 2018, the Holy Synod of the Greek Orthodox Church voted against the proposed change in the status of priests and decided to create a special commission to study the proposals of the Greek government to change the position of the Church in the state, reports the…

Hank Hanegraaff, known to millions as the “Bible Answer Man,” who converted to holy Orthodoxy with his wife in 2017, made a joyous announcement on his Bible Answer Man Facebook page recently. Hanegraaff, who was diagnosed with the rare mantle cell lymphoma on April 15, 2017, announced on Thursday that after nearly two years of…

His Eminence Metropolitan SILOUAN of the British Isles and Ireland has established a new men’s cenobitic brotherhood within the Antiochian Patriarchate. The Brotherhood of the Glorious Apostles Peter and Paul has been blessed to inhabit the Monastery of St Antony and St Cuthbert. Before becoming our bishop, Sayedna was appointed by Patriarch John X as…

It has been a great year for Eddy Vicken and Yvon Bertorello, and their documentary “Kosovo: Christians at risk”. It received the coveted award for “best documentary film” both at the Zaječar Festival of Christian Culture and at the Kruševac festival. Produced in close collaboration with Solidarité Kosovo, was first warmly received “at home” in…

On 15 November 2018, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, visited, while in Egypt, the Russian Embassy in Cairo and met with Mr. Sergei Kirpichenko, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to Egypt. Taking part in the meeting were also Rev. Viktor Kulaga, representative of the…

One of the most difficult stages and an engineering challenge was accomplished on Tuesday, November 13, 2018 on the construction site of the Romanian People’s Salvation Cathedral. The Cathedral’s largest bell weighing 25 tons was hung onto the metallic headstock inside the bell tower. ‘I can’t tell I was nervous,’ Grassmayr representative eng. Corneliu Revencu…