Israel’s Nature and Parks Authority this week shelved a controversial plan to expand a national park onto church-owned lands, including the Mount of Olives, in east Jerusalem, amid sharp opposition by the heads of Churches in Jerusalem, who denounced the plan as a “…premeditated attack on the Christians in the Holy Land.” According to a…

The visiting Metropolitan of Volokolamsk, His Eminence Hilarion, on Monday met with the Russian ambassador to Israel, Anatoli Viktarov, at the seat of the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Jerusalem. His Eminence Hilarion, who is also the chairman of the chairman of the Department of External Church Relations, thanked the ambassador for the active cooperation between…

The Patriarchate of Alexandria and All Africa this week conveyed another Patriarchal letter to the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, His Holiness Kirill, tersely calling on the Moscow Patriarchate to withdraw Metropolitan Klin from Africa and to rescind a non-canonical decision appointing the latter as a so-called “Exarch” of the Russian Church on the…

Greece’s foreign ministry on Tuesday issued a statement regarding the tenuous situation in Ukraine, noting that “…Russia’s recognition of the illegal and unilateral declaration of “independence” of Ukraine’s separatist regions of Donetsk and Luhansk, constitutes a blatant violation of fundamental principles of International Law, Ukraine’s territorial integrity, and the Minsk agreements.” The ministry further added…

The Church today venerates the memory of Anthousa the Martyr, and her 12 Servants.

The Archbishop of Tirana, Durres and All Albania, His Beatitude Anastasios, was received on Tuesday at the Maximos Mansion government seat in Athens by Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. The latter conveyed his respect to the person of the Archbishop of Albania and declared his full support for the spiritual, social and educational work of…

Valeriu Gafencu, one of the most beloved 20th-century Romanian martyrs, was prayerfully commemorated on Friday, February 18, on the 70th anniversary of his martyric repose in the Lord. The Divine Liturgy and a memorial service were officiated at the Church of Sts. Constantine and Helen in the eastern town of Târgu Ocna, where Gafencu died…

Last week, during the meeting of the Holy Synod, Archbishop Ioachim of Roman and Bacău held a spiritual meditation entitled “The bishop in the face of the challenges of the third millennium.” “One cannot speak of the bishop’s pastoral strategy in the face of the challenges of the third millennium without a consistent analysis of…

A social sports centre will be built near the new church of the Romanian Orthodox Parish in Dubai. The project aims to support and strengthen the Romanian community in the United Arab Emirates by creating a space where traditional Romanian values can be promoted. The centre was initiated by the Romanian Orthodox Parish in Dubai…