The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, this week conveyed a warm congratulatory letter to the husband-and-wife founders of Germany-based BioNTech, ethnic Turkish physicians and researchers Ugur Şahin and Özlem Türesi, who were awarded the Athenagoras Human Rights Award by the National Council of the Order of St. Andrew the Apostle. Along…

The Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Thursday evening announced even stricter measures in the east Mediterranean country for adults that are not vaccinated for the Covid-19 virus, including an obligation to present a negative rapid or PCR test result, or a prior infection certificate, for the entrance into houses of worship. Unvaccinated adults in…

The Church today venerates the memory of Obadiah the Prophet. Today is also the feast day of the Martyrs Barlaam of Caesarea, and Heliodorus of Pamphylia.

The Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem condemned the activity carried out by a group of Israeli radicals, under the protection of the Israeli army, on lands belonging to Saint Savvas Monastery yesterday. Those radical groups that are lurking to undermine the Patriarchate’s real estate. Regarding the matter, Father Issa Musleh, spokesperson for the Greek Orthodox…

On 3/16 November 2021, on the feast day of the Dedication of the Church of the Holy Greatmartyr George, His Holiness Porfirije, the Serbian Patriarch, celebrated the Holy Hierarchical Liturgy in the Novi Sad’s Cathedral church, on the occasion of the Patron Saint-day of the City of Novi Sad. His Holiness Patriarch was assisted by…

His Holiness Porfirije, the Serbian Patriarch, officiated the Holy Hierarchical Liturgy in the Church of St. Alexander Nevsky in Belgrade, with the concelebration of Their Graces Bishops Nazari of Kronstadt of the Moscow Patriarchate and Justin of Hvosno, Vicar of the Serbian Patriarch, on 18 November 2021. After the Holy Liturgy, the Serbian Patriarch Porfirije…

My Beloved Sisters and Brothers in Christ, Could there have been a more fitting climax to the Apostolic Visit of His All Holiness, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew to the United States than the “Opening of the Doors” service at the Saint Nicholas National Shrine, and the crowning of the Church with the Holy Cross? The dramatic…

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