Greece’s culture minister, Lina Mendoni, on Thursday continued an official visit to Albania, visiting ethnic Greek villages in southern Albania, schools and archaeological sites. She was also received by local office-holders, educators and the resident Metropolitan of Gjirokaster, His Eminence Demetrios. The Orthodox Metropolis’ education program to promote the Greek language and culture dominated talks.

The Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, His Beatitude John X, arrived in the Sultanate of Oman on Wednesday for a pastoral visit to the country on the northeast tip of the Arabian Peninsula, at the head of a delegation of hierarchs from the Antioch Church.

The Patriarch of Serbia, His Holiness Porfirije, spoke by phone on Wednesday with the president of the Republic of North Macedonia, Stevo Pentarovski, with the latter expressing his appreciation for a unanimous decision by the Holy Synod of Bishops of the Serbian Patriarchate extend the Tomos of Autocephaly to the Archbishopric of Ohrid. The Republic…

The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All-Holiness Bartholomew I, continued his pastoral visit to northern Greece on Thursday, where he attended an international conference organized by the faculty of theology of the Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, and on the occasion of the 30-year anniversary of his enthronement as the Primate of the Mother Church. Earlier,…

The Church today venerates the memory of Carpos and Alphaeus, Apostles of the 70.

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Satisfaction and joy were expressed this week by the Serbian Patriarchate and the Archbishopric of Ohrid following the archieratical Divine Liturgy celebrated on Tuesday at the Metropolitan Cathedral of St. Clement of Skopje by the primates of the two Churches, the Patriarch of Serbia, His Holiness Porfirije, and the Archbishop of Ohrid and Metropolitan of…

The EU Commission this week expressed its “concern” over a recent decision taken by so-called authorities in the Turkish-occupied areas of Cyprus, as the latter said they would open another stretch of beach in the abandoned district of Varosha, a Commission spokesman said on Tuesday. According to media reports, the stretch being cleared for commercial…

The latest school shooting rampage in the United States resulted in the death of 19 young children and two adults on Tuesday. According to reports, a lone gunman, a 18-year-old teen clad in body armor, entered a south Texas elementary school in the city of Uvalde and opened fire. He was later killed in an…