His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel, the Primate of the Romanian Orthodox Church, joined EU and Romanian leaders at the official launch of Romania’s first presidency of the bloc, which took place at the Romanian Athenaeum in Bucharest on Thursday, January 10, 2019. Delivering speeches at the opening ceremony on behalf of Romania were the President of…

Opening address by His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew on the Forum on Modern Slavery “Awareness, action, and impact”, Istanbul, January 7, 2019: Your Eminences and Excellencies, Dear representatives of the Presidency of Religious Affairs of Turkey and of the Mufti of Istanbul, Dear friends, We welcome and embrace each of you with the blessings and…

The government’s proposal to strike clerics off the state’s payroll topped the agenda of last Thursday’s meeting between Education Minister Costas Gavroglou and a special eight-member committee from the Church of Greece. The proposal to remove clerics from the state’s payroll – and to pay them instead via an annual state subsidy to be managed…

According to the honorary patriarch, the church should work with the government on the matter. Filaret, who is an Honorary Patriarch of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, says the receipt of the tomos of autocephaly of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine is only launching the process of unification of Ukrainian Orthodoxy. The cleric’s comments came…

On 10 January 2019, Metropolitan Hilarion, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, currently on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, met with H.E. Alexander Viktorov, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the State of Israel….

On January 10, 2019, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate department for external church relations (DECR), who is on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land made with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, visited the Patriarchate of Jerusalem to meet with His Beatitude Patriarch Theophilos III…

The scroll of Tomos on the Autocephaly of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine has returned to Ukraine from Constantinople where it stayed for the duration of the day on January 9 to be signed by members of the Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, President Petro Poroshenko of Ukraine has said. “This morning the Tomos returned…

Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate department for external church relations (DECR), has continued his pilgrimage to the Holy Land he is making with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia. On January 9, he visited the church of the Dormition of the Most Holy Mother of…

Greek and Turkish Cypriots joined forces on Thursday to protect and preserve the Monastery of St. Panteleimon in the Turkish occupied north of Cyprus after it vandalized only two years after it was restored. Α community cleanup event was organised at the Monastery, in the occupied village of Myrtou, where representatives from the Technical Committee…