The Holy Synod of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church has issued a strongly worded statement warning Bulgarian citizens against what it calls “pagan neo-Hindu propaganda with false Christian elements” being spread by touring gurus and self-proclaimed spiritual teachers. In the statement published yesterday, the Church leadership expresses concern about religious groups that “interweave their pagan beliefs…

On Monday, 4 August 2025, the newly appointed head of the U.S. Consulate General in Constantinople, Michael Kidwell, paid an official visit to the Seat of the Ecumenical Patriarchate at the Phanar. Kidwell was warmly received by His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, with whom he discussed matters concerning the life and mission of the Mother…

The Great Feast of the Transfiguration of our Saviour Jesus Christ was celebrated with ecclesiastical splendour and magnificence in Thomastown, Melbourne. In the Church of the Transfiguration of Our Lord, His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia, celebrated the Divine Liturgy on Wednesday morning, 6 August 2025, with the concelebration of the local Bishop of Chora,…

Following the invitation of Archbishop of Mount Sinai and Raithu, His Eminence Damianos to His Beatitude Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem, with which he was asked, according to the existing ecclesiastical status, to mediate and address the critical matter of the Holy Monastery of Sinai, His Beatitude responded positively and decided that it is appropriate…

The patron saint of the Orthodox Volunteer Corps (OVC), an organization that places twentysomethings in lines of volunteerism in Pittsburgh and Boston, is Mother Maria of Paris—a Russian poet, nun, and member of the Parisian resistance who was killed in the Holocaust and later canonized as a saint by the Ecumenical Patriarchate. Her life of…

An attempted arson incident occurred on Monday evening, 4 August 2025, at the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople, shortly after a prayer service. According to protothema.gr, an unidentified man wearing a red cap and shorts approached the area behind the lectern and set fire to some papers, which then ignited part of a carpet inside the…

“Let us do works that endure in the light,” urged His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia, during the address he delivered at the Great Festive Vespers on the feast of the Transfiguration of the Saviour, at the Church of the Transfiguration of Our Lord in the suburb of Thomastown in Melbourne. His Eminence presided over…

On this day, our hearts are shaken by the tragedy of the Beirut port explosion—a disaster that struck our Lebanese reality and snatched away beloved souls. Today, we pray the Father of Lights that he receive them into His heavenly radiance, anoint them with the balm of His mercy, and soothe the hearts of their…

His Beatitude Patriarch Theophilos III, Patriarch of the Holy City of Jerusalem, visited the Convent of Saint Mary Magdalene today, August 4, with accompanying delegation of members of the Brotherhood of the Holy Sepulcher, to celebrate the Feast of Patron Saint, where His Beatitude delivered the following address,   “Dear Archimandrite Roman, Dear Mother Abbess…