The third day reached its peak with the encounter with His Beatitude Patriarch John X. In a warm and fatherly meeting, His Beatitude sat among the youth, inquired after their well‑being, and listened attentively to their reflections on what they had experienced during the “Ana Icon” gathering. He also listened to them as they performed…

Bishop Veniamin of Southern Bessarabia issued a message at the start of the 2026–2027 school year to pupils, students, parents, and teachers, urging young people to combine the acquisition of knowledge with character formation and the cultivation of faith, while emphasising that true wisdom has its source in God. The Bishop of Southern Bessarabia recalled…

His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel welcomed the relics of St Anne, the mother of the Mother of God, at the Patriarchal Residence on Saturday evening. Brought from Koutloumousiou Monastery at the initiative of St George the New Parish in Bucharest, the relics are visiting Romania for the first time and are accompanied by a delegation from…

“Dear young people, we thank you for the beautiful Procession of Lights you held this evening from the National Cathedral to the historic Patriarchal Cathedral. It was a pilgrimage of joy and peace,” His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel told young participants in the 2026 International Meeting of Orthodox Youth (ITO 2026) on Wednesday evening, after they…

With particular splendour and reverence, the Great Festal Hierarchical Vespers was celebrated on the evening of Monday, 7 September, for the great Feast of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos, at the Holy Pilgrimage Church of Panagia Kamariani in Red Hill, Victoria. His Grace Bishop Athinagoras of Canberra presided over the sacred service as…

His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America marked Labor Day with the following social media post: On this Labor Day, I am reminded that everything around us was built by someone’s hands. The road, the harvest, the meal, the machine. I am also reminded that the ordinary protections of a working day, its hours and its…

Dearly Beloved Brothers and Sisters in Christ, On September 6th, the Holy Orthodox Church celebrates the Nativity of the Theotokos. At the very beginning of the new ecclesiastical year, the Church presents to us the birth of the person through whom the Son of God would enter human history. For this reason, Saint Andrew of…

On Sunday, 6 September, a Hierarchical Divine Liturgy was celebrated at the newly built Church of the Holy Three Hierarchs in Budapest, presided over by His Eminence Elder Metropolitan Emmanuel of Chalcedon. His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and the visiting Hierarchs who were present as guests joined prayerfully from within the Holy Altar. In his…

On Saturday, 5 September, The Great Vespers was celebrated at the celebrating Holy Monastery of Archangel Michael of Panormitis in Symi, on the occasion of the Feast of the Miracle of the Archangel Michael at Chonae, with His Eminence Metropolitan Bartholomew of Smyrna presiding. Also present in prayer were the local Shepherd, His Eminence Metropolitan…