Romanian tennis star Simona Halep won the Wimbledon 2019 final and gained her second Grand Slam title, after the Roland Garros 2018. In the final, on July 13, Halep defeated former world number one and multiple Grand Slam title winner Serena Williams in two sets: 6-2, 6-2. His Grace Bishop Ignatie of Huși, the only…

On 15 July 2019, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations (DECR), met with Hujjat al Islam Mohammad Mehdi Taskhiri, head of the Centre for Interreligious Dialogue of Iran’s Islamic Culture and Relations Organization. Taking part in the meeting on behalf of the DECR were its vice-chairman Archimandrite…

On 15 July 2019, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations (DECR), met with a delegation the Urbi et Orbi Foundation led by its founder Dr. Robert Moynihan, who is also editor-in-chief of the Inside the Vatican magazine. They were joined at the meeting, which took place at…

On 15 July 2019, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations (DECR), met with Vladislav Maslennikov, the newly appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to Montenegro. They were joined at the meeting, which took place at the DECR premises, by Andrei Khoshev, a staff member…

The new US Consul General in Istanbul, Daria Darnell, visited the seat of the Ecumenical Patriarchate on Tuesday, July 16, for the first time since taking office. Mrs. Darnell was received by His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew with whom she had a long discussion on the life and the initiatives of the Mother Church of…

His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America met President Donald J. Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Tuesday, July 16, 2019. Also present at the meeting were Vice President Mike Pence; Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar; and Vicar General of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Fr….

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An exact replica of the miracle-working icon of the Panaghia Tricherousa, or “Virgin with Three Hands”, which is displayed at the Hilandar Monastery on Mt. Athos, was conveyed to the St. Nicanoros Cathedral in the northwest city of Kastoria. A celebratory Vesper and Divine Liturgy, con-celebrated by the Metropolitan of Kastoria, His Eminence Seraphim, was…

  The Metropolitan of Elbasan, His Eminence Antonios, visited children at a Metropolis-run summer camp in central Albania on Sunday, which coincided with the commemoration of the Holy Fathers of the 4th Ecumenical Council. While there, His Eminence presided at a Divine Liturgy attended by the young campers.