Following last we​ek’s meetings of the Holy Synod of Antioch at Balamand Monastery in Lebanon, His Eminence Metropolitan Joseph, Primate of the Antiochian Archdiocese, was received by the President of the Republic of Lebanon, His Excellency Gen. Michel Aoun, at the Baabda Palace in the Lebanese capital of Beirut. Joining His Eminence on Monday were…

Representatives of Eastern and Oriental Orthodox Christian churches met on Oct. 8, 2019, at the Armenian Cathedral of St. Vartan for the first meeting of the joint commission in nearly a decade. The meeting began with a common prayer service followed by open discussions. Recognizing doctrinal agreement, as established in the 1990’s by the official…

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  The website Christiantoday.com this month reported that a Christian bishop in predominately Muslim Pakistan decried the need for parents of Christian children in the country to give their offspring Muslim first names, in order to avoid abuse in public schools. According to Bishop Samson Shukardin “…Many minorities give their children Islamic names so they…

The group Nepsis, founded by the Romanian Orthodox Church’s Metropolis in Spain and Portugal, held a conference last week on the island of Grand Canary, on the subject of “How to live in faith amid a virtual and digital world”. More than 150 young people from around western Europe and Romania attended.

  The Archbishop of Thyateira and Great Britain, His Eminence Nikitas, on Sunday officiated at the archieratical Divine Liturgy at the Church of Sts. Panteleimon and Paraskevi, in the Harrow district of North London. In his sermon afterwards, His Eminence referred to the institution of the family and in Christian upbringing of children.

  The Abbess Styliani reposed in the Lord earlier this morning. As the Abbess of the Pantokratoras nunnery in Mt. Penteli, north of Athens, she was instrumental in expanding its monastic and spiritual mission and in its thorough renovation. A funeral service will be held on Wednesday afternoon, officiated by the Archbishop of Athens and…

  The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, this week greeted 25 general consuls of a same number of countries with consulates in the Bosporus metropolis, during their visit to the Patriarchate’s Holy Trinity Monastery on the small Marmara Sea isle of Halki. The Ecumenical Patriarch received the foreign diplomats at the…

  Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis arrived in Cairo today for the seventh Egypt-Greece-Cyprus summit meeting. While in the Egyptian capital, Mitsotakis visited the St. George Orthodox Cathedral in the city, where he was welcomed by the Auxiliary Bishop of Babylonos, His Grace Theodoros.