His Eminence Metropolitan SILOUAN of the British Isles and Ireland has established a new men’s cenobitic brotherhood within the Antiochian Patriarchate. The Brotherhood of the Glorious Apostles Peter and Paul has been blessed to inhabit the Monastery of St Antony and St Cuthbert. Before becoming our bishop, Sayedna was appointed by Patriarch John X as…

It has been a great year for Eddy Vicken and Yvon Bertorello, and their documentary “Kosovo: Christians at risk”. It received the coveted award for “best documentary film” both at the Zaječar Festival of Christian Culture and at the Kruševac festival. Produced in close collaboration with Solidarité Kosovo, was first warmly received “at home” in…

On 15 November 2018, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, visited, while in Egypt, the Russian Embassy in Cairo and met with Mr. Sergei Kirpichenko, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to Egypt. Taking part in the meeting were also Rev. Viktor Kulaga, representative of the…

One of the most difficult stages and an engineering challenge was accomplished on Tuesday, November 13, 2018 on the construction site of the Romanian People’s Salvation Cathedral. The Cathedral’s largest bell weighing 25 tons was hung onto the metallic headstock inside the bell tower. ‘I can’t tell I was nervous,’ Grassmayr representative eng. Corneliu Revencu…

The Council of Bishops of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, which gathered in the Holy Dormition-Kiev Caves Lavra on November 13, 2018, having heard His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry of Kiev and All Ukraine on the challenges that have arisen recently before the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, adopted the following: 1. The Ukrainian Orthodox Church, which is canonical…

President of the Republic of Serbia Mr. Aleksandar Vucic discussed with His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch, who was accompanied by the Principal of Saint Sava Cathedral, Bishop Stefan of Remesiana, the head of the project of mosaics creation academician Manana Popov and chief artist of the mosaics in Saint Sava Cathedral Nikolay Muhin about the…

On 13 November 2018, the 30th anniversary of the episcopal consecration of Metropolitan Niphon of Philippopolis, representative of the Patriarch of Antioch and All the East to the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia was celebrated at the Metochion of the Antiochian Orthodox Church in Moscow. Metropolitan Niphon celebrated the Divine Liturgy at the Church of…

On the 14th-15th of November 2018, the head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Administration for Institutions Abroad, Archbishop Antony of Vienna and Budapest, visited Slovakia and the Czech Republic with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia. On the 14th of November, in Bratislava, the hierarch was received by His Beatitude Metropolitan Rastislav…

On Thursday, 15 November 2018, with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, arrived in Cairo on a working visit. The same day Metropolitan Hilarion visited the Patriarchate of Alexandria. In the Church of St. Nicholas…