Congratulations continued to pour in for this year’s Wimbledon champion, Simona Halep, a Romanian tennis star, with the Bishop of Huși, His Grace Ignatie, extending his praise in a social media post.     His statement comes after the Romanian Patriarch, His Beatitude Daniel, on Thursday bestowed the Church’s highest decoration on the young Romanian…

The Archbishop of America, His Eminence Elpidophoros, on Wednesday attended and addressed a ministerial meeting, convened in Washington D.C. by the US State Department, on the issue of religious freedom around the world and protection of at-risk religious minorities in conflict zones.

His Beatitude Pope Theodoros II, the Orthodox Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and all Africa, visited the Library of Alexandria on 17 July 2019, accompanied with a senior ecclesiastical delegation. His Beatitude Pope Theodoros II toured the new Library of Alexandria and paid a special visit to the Restoration Laboratory affiliated to the Manuscripts Center…

  More than 60,000 worshipers gathered on Wednesday evening in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg for a memorial service for last Russian Czar Nicholas and the members of his family that were executed in the area in 1918. Worshipers walked 21 kilometers along the route that the executioners used to transport the bodies of the…

A new page in Church-state dialogue was turned this week, following a particularly positive meeting on Tuesday between new Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Archbishop of Athens and All Greece Ieronymos. The good climate was confirmed in a subsequent meeting, a day later, between the Archbishop and Education & Religious Affairs Minister Niki Kerameos….

Antique icons were presented to Russian President Vladimir Putin and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko after a visit to the Konevets Monastery of the Holy Nativity of the Mother of God. The two presidents visited Valaam on Wednesday. Subsequently, on their way to St. Petersburg, they made a stopover on Konevets Island in the western part…

The Moscow Patriarchate has expressed its hope that this year’s traditional religious procession organized by the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in honor of the Christianization of Kievan Rus will not be impeded by authorities, as was the case last year. “We all remember with what difficulties the religious procession in Ukraine was held last year, what…

The mosaic crucifix showing Christ flanked by Virgin Mary and Saint John the Theologian is ready to be applied above the iconostasis of the National Cathedral in Bucharest. The five-metre mosaic cross was initially painted by the team of artists coordinated by iconographer Daniel Codrescu. The cross that will tower over the Cathedral’s 18-metre unique…

Six months after the Orthodox Church in Ukraine was granted autocephaly, Moscow Patriarchate’s cold war against the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Constantinople continues. In a statement, an official with pro-Moscow Ukrainian Orthodox Church states that the Phanar (Ecumenical Patriarchate) “has requested or demanded all sorts of favours, economic or political, from political and Church leaders”. In…