The Russian icon kept in the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris was not damaged by fire, the representative of the Russian Orthodox Church at the Council of Europe and the Father Superior of the Parish of All Saints in Strasbourg, Abbot Philip said. He was informed about this by the Father Superior of Notre-Dame de…

His Grace Bishop Justin of Maramures and Satmar on Sunday, April 14, 2019, presided over the Divine Liturgy at Săpânţa-Peri Monastery, whose wooden church is the tallest in Europe. The 78-metre high tower of the church dedicated to the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross is visible at a distance of about 5…

On 18 April 2019, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations (DECR), met with Rev. Martin Barta, confessor, and Mr. Pyotr Gumenyuk, head of the Russian section, the Kirche in Not Foundation. They were joined in the meeting, which took place at the parish house at the Church…

The Gospel published in 1697 in the Romanian language by Antimoz Iverieli, Georgian theologian, scholar, calligrapher, philosopher and one of the greatest ecclesiastic figures of Wallachia, was added to the fund of unique manuscripts of the National Library of Georgia. “The book’s primary restoration works have been completed and we are glad to inform the…

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A new church is being built in Bulgaria in honor of one of the Orthodox Church’s most beloved saints today. On Sunday, His Eminence Metropolitan John of Varna and Veliki Preslav laid the foundation stone of the future Church of St. Luke of Simferopol in Dobrich in northeastern Bulgaria, reports the site of the Bulgarian…

The Special Envoy of the M.F.A for Combating Anti-Semitism and Safeguarding the Memory of the Holocaust, Dr. E. Lianos Liantis, meets with His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew April 18, 2019 | The Special Envoy for Combating Anti-Semitism and Safeguarding the Memory of the Holocaust, Dr. Efstathios Lianos Liantis, met with His All Holiness Ecumenical…

A delegation from the St. Andrew the First-Called Foundation in Russia will travel to Jerusalem for the ceremony of the Holy Fire and then deliver the sacred flame to Russia and a number of other countries, including the United States, the Foundation’s press service told RIA-Novosti. “The delegation of the St. Andrew’s Foundation will deliver…

Their Holinesses and Beatitudes, the Primates of the Orthodox Churches in the Middles East, held a meeting that gathered Theodoros II, Patriarch of Alexandria, John X, Patriarch of Antioch, Theophilos III, Patriarch of Jerusalem and Chrysostomos II, Archbishop of Cyprus, at the Cypriot’s Archbishopric Headquarters, on April 18, 2019. In their meeting, they prayed for…