Unknown perpetrators organized an attack on a church in the village of Semenovka in the Odessa Province yesterday and stole donations from the church. The attack was announced by the deputy of the Odessa Province Council Irina Kovalish on her Facebook page. ​Her message reads: Another attack on an Orthodox church… There was an attack…

On 26 December 2018, the Supreme Church Council of the Russian Orthodox Church held a regular session in the Hall of the Supreme Church Council of the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow under the chairmanship of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia. His Holiness delivered an opening address. I greet…

On 25 December 2018, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations (DECR) met with Bishop Teodosije of Raška-Prizren, Serbian Orthodox Church, and hieromonk Isidor (Jagodić), who have arrived as pilgrims to venerate the holy sites of the Russian Orthodox Church. They were joined at the meeting, which took…

A homemade bomb exploded outside Aghios Dionysios church, Kolonaki, Athens, on Thursday morning injuring two persons. The mechanism exploded at 07:10. According to sources, it was made of two boxes of flammable liquid, wires and a clock. The bomb injured the policeman who was examining the box as well as a church employee. The area…

“I want to thank Patriarch for his merit and contribution to the building of Georgian state” Mamuka Bakhtadze, Georgian Prime Minister said at Svetitskhoveli Cathedral in Mtskheta town where solemn church service was held on the occasion of the 41st anniversary of the enthronement of Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia, His Holiness and Beatitude Ilia II….

On 25 December 2018, His Beatitude Patriarch John X of the Great Antioch and All the East celebrated the Christmas Liturgy at the Cathedral of the Orthodox Church of Antioch in Damascus. Concelebrating with the Primate of the Orthodox Church of Antioch were his vicar bishops, as well as Hegumen Arseny (Sokolov), representative of the…

His Beatitude Theodoros II, Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, paid a visit to the Embassy of the United States of America in Cairo. His Beatitude was warmly welcomed to his home, within the grounds of the Embassy by the Chargé d’Affaires Mr. Thomas Goldberg, together with Mr. Patrick Collins, of the department…

Iraq has made Christmas Day a national holiday, its government confirmed yesterday. The Iraqi Cabinet approved an amendment to its national holidays law which creates a new official one ‘on the occasion of the birth of Jesus Christ’. Previously, Christmas Day had been designated as a religious break only for the Iraqi Christian community, but…

The Information Service of the Serbian Orthodox Church congratulates the feast of the Birth of the Divine God-Child to believers and clergy of the Christian Churches which celebrate Christmas according to Gregorian calendar and greets them with the traditional greeting: CHRIST IS BORN! – HE IS BORN INDEED!