On November 1, His Eminence Metropolitan Barsanuphius of St. Petersburg and Ladoga blessed the creation of an association of psychologist priests, aimed at coordinating the work of metropolitan clergy with psychological education and practice. The association is under the auspices of the diocesan Commission on Family Issues and the Protection of Motherhood and Childhood. Member…

On the evening of Saturday, November 18, 2023, in Cleveland, Ohio, a large gathering of the Serbian Orthodox Faithful came together in response to an invitation to support an extremely worthy cause of beautifying and building a proper monastic complex at New Marcha Monastery, dedicated to the Holy Archangel Gabriel, located in Richfield, Ohio. This…

On Saturday, 25th November 2023, the Feast Day of St Catherine, His Grace Bishop Iakovos of Claudiopolis presided during Matins and concelebrated the Divine Liturgy at the Church of St Catherine Barnet & Enfield in North London. Among those concelebrating were the Priest-in-charge Very Revd Archim. Damianos Konstantinou, the Vicar General Protopresbyter Konstantinos Garibaldinos, the…

The historical significance and current presence of Orthodox Churches in locations of key competition between the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and Russia, and in the great power rivalries of the twenty-first century, raises important questions about the role and impact of Orthodox Churches in contemporary geopolitics. Kremlin-supported challenges by the Moscow Patriarchate to the…

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis expressed his annoyance on Monday evening over the last-minute cancellation of his meeting in London with British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. “I express my annoyance at the fact that the British prime minister canceled our scheduled meeting a few hours before it was due to take place,” the prime minister…

On Sunday morning, 26 November 2023, in which the Church celebrates the feast day of St. Stylianos of Paphlagonia, the patron saint and healer of children, His Eminence Metropolitan John of Zambia presided over the Hierarchical Divine Liturgy, conducted the blessing of the five loaves (artoklasia) and spoke to the congregation about the moving icon…

On Sunday, 26 November 2023, the 13th Sunday of Luke, His Eminence Metropolitan Daniel of Aksum officiated at the Cathedral of Saint Frumentios, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on the occasion of the completion of five years from the day of his election to the Hierarchical Throne of the historic Holy Metropolis of Aksum. Metropolitan Daniel,…

On Sunday, 26 November 2023, His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew received a group of Roman Catholic hierarchs and clergy from Italy, Greece and Turkey. On the previous day, the Catholic Hierarchs participated in the ordination of the new Catholic Bishop in the area of Alexandretta, Bishop Antuan Ilgit, which took place at the Catholic Church…

His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew expressed the wish for everyone’s efforts to be dedicated to the creation of a world where justice, compassion, and the sanctity of life will be protected as sacred values, after the Divine Liturgy, which he presided over on Sunday, 26 November 2023, at the Church of St. Nicholas in Tzivali,…