His Holiness Patriarch Irinej of Serbia has voiced his approval of the proposal to amend the name of the Serbian Orthodox Church to emphasize its inextricable ties to much-suffering Kosovo, reports B92. The Serbian Church is…
Holy Friday has become an official public non-working holiday in Romania. With Romanian President Klaus Iohannis’ signature on the completion of Paragraph 1 of Article 139 of the Labor Code, Romania joined 16 other EU…
The Council of Bishops of the Finnish Orthodox Church under the Ecumenical Patriarchate recently expressed its official opinion on the civil initiative to legalize euthanasia, at the request of the Parliamentary Committee on Social and…
Materials relating to the lives of several people venerated throughout Ukraine have been sent to the Holy Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church to be considered for official glorification among the saints, reports the site…
Sunday of Orthodoxy was celebrated in a special way this year in Chicago. At Ss. Constantine and Helen Romanian Cathedral of Chicago, the Divine Liturgy was served by HE Metropolitan Nicolae and the clergy of the Cathedral. At…
On Sunday February 12/25, 2018, the Jerusalem Patriarchate celebrated the victory and triumph of the Church through the restoration of the holy icons, after the harassment caused by iconoclasm, during the reign of the reverend…
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew attended the “Interreligious Dialogue for Peace, Promoting Peaceful Coexistence & Common Citizenship” in Vienna on 26 February 2018. The conference created a first-ever joint action plan for Arab religious leaders to…
Matthew 7:1 Judge not, that you be not judged. Matthew 6:16 Moreover, when you fast, do not be like the hypocrites, with a sad countenance. For they disfigure their faces that they may appear to…
By the Grace of God John X Patriarch of the Orthodox Church of Antioch To My brothers, the hierarchs and Shepherds of the Holy Church of Antioch My spiritual children throughout the Apostolic See My…
On the day that God made Adam, He made him in the likeness of God. Male and female He made them, He blessed them and He named them ‘Man’. (Gen 5:1-2) Dear young Orthodox Christians…