On November 18, 2018, festive events to mark the 60th anniversary of the Damascus Representation of the Russian Orthodox Church were held in the Syrian capital city. The Divine Liturgy at the Representation’s church of the Holy Martyr Ignatius the God-Bearer was celebrated by His Holiness John X, Patriarch of Antioch and All the East….

Headed by Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, the delegation that was in Damascus from November 17 to 18, 2018, brought a consignment of humanitarian supply including winter clothes and toys to the boarding school for children of fallen servicemen in Damascus. The supply was collected with the blessing of Metropolitan Hilarion by the International Working Group…

The Patron saint of Novi Sad, the Serbian Athens – the renovation of the church of the Holy Great-Martyr George, was celebrated by the Holy Hierarchal Liturgy and a solemn academy. His Grace Bishop Irinej of Backa officiated on the 3/16th of November 2018 the Holy Liturgy in the Cathedral church dedicated to St. George,…

I will do my best to help the Diocese of Sumadija as well as the other dioceses of the Serbian Orthodox Church, which is the policy of the Government of the Republic of Serbia and the Ministry of Justice, said Dr. Mileta Radojevic, Director of the Office for Cooperation with Churches and Religious Communities, receiving…

The construction of a Bulgarian Orthodox Church in Bucharest, Romania, will soon begin. This became clear after a meeting between His Holiness Patriarch Neophyte and Mr. Gabriel Muto, Mayor of Bucharest’s District 6. The occasion for the meeting was the initiative to build a Bulgarian Orthodox temple in the Romanian capital, which for years has…

Georgian Patriarch and Catholicos Ilia II met with representatives of the Red Cross in Georgia, the Georgian Patriarchate reported. The meeting took place on Friday, 16 November, 2018 at the Patriarchate in Tbilisi. Patriarch Iliya blessed the head of the organization and thanked for the humanitarian and social activity that the Red Cross is doing…

The National Cathedral ‘includes in itself all our defeats and humiliations over the last 100 years. It rises as a victory. It will change only the life of those who constantly seek God with the persistence of the soldiers who know they are defending their family and nation.’ ‘For the others who are more superficial,…

The Orthodox Bishops’ Conference of Benelux posted this official statement on their website: Brussels – On Wednesday November 14, 2018, the Orthodox Bishops’ Conference of Benelux (CEOB) met for the sixteenth time at the headquarters of the Orthodox Metropolis, 71 Avenue Charbo. The meeting was chaired by His Eminence Metropolitan Athenagoras of Belgium (Ecumenical Patriarchate)….

Meeting in an extraordinary session on Friday, November 16, 2018, the Holy Synod of the Greek Orthodox Church voted against the proposed change in the status of priests and decided to create a special commission to study the proposals of the Greek government to change the position of the Church in the state, reports the…