Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk received Mar Ishaq Yusip (Assyrian Church of the East), Metropolitan of the diocese of Nohadra, Mosul and the CIS countries, at the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations. Present at the meeting were also Chorebishop Samano Odisho, rector of the Moscow Church of Mat Mariam, and Hieromonk Stephen (Igumnov), DECR…

The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America released a statement saying that the Archdiocese “is committed to full transparency” after U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that George Papadakos, the Archdiocese’s former Director of Finance, has pled guilty to embezzling more than $60,000 of Archdiocesan funds for personal expenses. “As previously communicated to the Faithful by the Archdiocese,…

The Cincture of the Theotokos, known as the Haghia Zoni, or Holy Sash in Greek, was received with head of state honors on Thursday afternoon in the northern Greek city of Drama. The Holy Relic was conveyed to the city by Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi, who…

Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex M. Azar II will represent the President of the United States at the Enthronement Ceremony of His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America, Saturday, June 22, 2019 at 11:00 am, at the Holy Trinity Archdiocesan Cathedral. Secretary Azar, an Orthodox Christian of the Antiochian Archdiocese, will offer welcome remarks…

On June 25, a double celebration in honor of His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry of Kiev and All Ukraine will be held at the Kiev Caves Lavra. According to the Information Center of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church, representatives from 11 Local Orthodox Churches will gather in the Ukrainian capital to help His Beatitude celebration his name’s day…

On Sunday, June 16, 2019, after the Divine Liturgy of Pentecost, the Annual Summer International Food Festival took place this year in the courtyard of the Cathedral of St Nicholas in Seoul. The participation in the festival of Koreans, Russians, Ukrainians, Belarusians, Romanians, Greeks, Americans, Europeans and other Orthodox believers was great. Also, numerous non-Orthodox…

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  Reactions against a draft bill tabled by the Montenegro government continued unabated this week, as the Serbian Orthodox Church charged that the legislation aims to facilitate the confiscation of Church properties in the small western Balkans country. The Serbian government has also loudly criticized the plan, with Serbian minister Nenand Popovic on Wednesday referring…

An inter-faith memorial event was held in Weimar, Germany this week on the occasion of last month’s centennial anniversary of the Pontian Genocide in Asia Minor. Wreaths were also laid at the former Nazi concentration camp of Buchenwald. The event also commemorated the Armenian and Assyrian Christian genocides by Ottoman forces and irregulars throughout WWI….