Church volunteers in Bucharest this week distributed gifts to more than 1,900 children of at-risk families, with a celebratory event taking place at the chapel of the Metropolitan Cathedral of the Savior of the Nation in the Romanian capital.
Several important developments affected Orthodoxy over the past year. The continued and ominous presence of the pandemic wasn’t enough to dampen the significant milestones and events of the Orthodox world. For instance, the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece over the past year took a very active role in organizing and participating in commemorative events to…
Reactions in Greece continue over an insolent and even blasphemous quip, posted last week in the form of Tweet, by London School of Economics professor Elias Mossialos. The Tweet is deemed as a direct affront to the Sacrament of the Divine Incarnation of the Son of God. Even more egregious is the fact that Prof….
Humanity awaits the advent of the New Year this evening, with a global desire and expectation that 2022 brings an end to the specter of the Covid-19 pandemic plaguing the world. A portion of the planet has already rung in the New Year, beginning in the western Pacific. The recent appearance and subsequent prevalence of…
The Church today commemorates the Apodosis of the Nativity of Our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Today is also the feast day of Melania the Younger, Nun of Rome.
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Τhe Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia, His Holiness and Beatitude Ilia II, this week blessed the newly elected chairman of Georgia’s Parliament Shalva Papuashvili, and presented him with an icon. The office-holder was accompanied by his wife and daughter.
A decision on Wednesday by the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church to create an Exarchate within the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Patriarchate of Alexandria and All Africa, the second in rank Orthodox Church, brings it in a position of opposition to the latter. According to a statement by the Moscow Patriarchate’s Holy Synod,…