Vienna police found no bomb at St. Stephen’s Cathedral after an anonymous caller phoned in a threat on Thursday, prompting an evacuation of the inner-city landmark, police said on Twitter. “The search of St. Stephen’s Cathedral came up negative, the closures are being lifted, and an investigation into the caller is being launched,” the Vienna…

Since the start of the “Program 200” project in 2010, 85 churches have been built in Moscow, with another 150 planned, program curator State Duma Deputy Vladimir Resin said, reports Interfax. The program was originally meant to build 200 churches, so everyone in the capital would have a church within walking distance, but the program…

The Russian chess grandmaster, the multiple champion of the world and one of the greatest chess players of all times, received the Order of the Holy Bishop Nicholas (Velimirovic), the highest decoration of the Diocese of Valjevo, and joined it to the series of awards in his rich career and life. The proved friend of…

‘The Feast of the Nativity of the Lord reveals God’s endless love for humans, which is above all understanding,’ the Patriarch of Romania said during the Christmas Divine Liturgy celebrated on Tuesday, December 25, at the Patriarchal Cathedral in Bucharest. Concelebrants for the Divine Liturgy included His Grace Bishop Qais of Erzurum (Antioch Patriarchate), the…

Unknown perpetrators organized an attack on a church in the village of Semenovka in the Odessa Province yesterday and stole donations from the church. The attack was announced by the deputy of the Odessa Province Council Irina Kovalish on her Facebook page. ​Her message reads: Another attack on an Orthodox church… There was an attack…

On 26 December 2018, the Supreme Church Council of the Russian Orthodox Church held a regular session in the Hall of the Supreme Church Council of the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow under the chairmanship of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia. His Holiness delivered an opening address. I greet…

On 25 December 2018, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations (DECR) met with Bishop Teodosije of Raška-Prizren, Serbian Orthodox Church, and hieromonk Isidor (Jagodić), who have arrived as pilgrims to venerate the holy sites of the Russian Orthodox Church. They were joined at the meeting, which took…

A homemade bomb exploded outside Aghios Dionysios church, Kolonaki, Athens, on Thursday morning injuring two persons. The mechanism exploded at 07:10. According to sources, it was made of two boxes of flammable liquid, wires and a clock. The bomb injured the policeman who was examining the box as well as a church employee. The area…

“I want to thank Patriarch for his merit and contribution to the building of Georgian state” Mamuka Bakhtadze, Georgian Prime Minister said at Svetitskhoveli Cathedral in Mtskheta town where solemn church service was held on the occasion of the 41st anniversary of the enthronement of Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia, His Holiness and Beatitude Ilia II….