His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians on Thursday received a Lebanese delegation led by Mitropolit Antonios Al Soury of Antioch in Zahle and founding director of the Gardenia Lebanese Farms Nicolas Abou Fayssal. The Catholicos of All Armenians gave his blessings to the guests and highly appreciated the programs that…

Numerous valuable votives and crosses were stolen this week by burglars from the monastic community of the Timios Prodromos, or St. John the Baptist, outside the northern Greece city of Veria.

An annual event on books about Orthodoxy took place in the city of Varna, with the primary theme this year being “Orthodox Education for Youth”. The honorary guest of the thematic week was the Metropolitan of Montenegro and the Littoral, His Eminence Amphilochios.

The Archbishop of America, His Eminence Elpidophoros, arrived in Boston this week for Saturday’s Feast Day of the Elevation of the Venerable and Life-Giving Cross. While in the New England metropolis, the Archbishop also referred to the problems faced by the Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, following his meetings with the seminary’s leadership…

The chairman of the Information department of the Russian Orthodox Church, Vladimir Legoida, has assumed the duties of press spokesman for the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, His Holiness Kirill.

The Archbishop of Australia, His Eminence Makarios, arrived in Greece this past week, where among others, he was received by Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Wednesday. After Greece, Makarios will be received at the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople by His All Holiness Bartholomew I, before departing for Jerusalem, where he will meet with the…

A celebratory Divine Liturgy for the Cincture of the Theotokos, the Blessed Virgin Mary, was held on Thursday at the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi on Mt. Athos, before a multitude of worshippers. The Metropolitan of Guinea, His Eminence Georgios, presided at the Divine Liturgy, concelebrated with the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of…

The Church today venerates the memory of St. Cornelius, a Roman centurion who became a Christian after he was catechized by St. Peter in the Faith of Christ. His preaching and missionary work caused an intense reaction by the pagans in the city of Caesarea. He was persecuted and martyred for his faith.

“Various powers are trying to gain influence and to advance their ideology, but the people are waiting for positive changes,” Catholicos-Patriarch Ilia II of Georgia wrote in his congratulatory letter to Giorgi Gakharia, the newly elected Prime Minster of the country, which has experienced mass protests and occasional bouts of civil unrest lately. On behalf…