The Mount Athos Center, in collaboration with the Athos Herbarium, presents an herbarium (dried flowers) exhibition entitled ‘The Botanical Treasure of the Mount Athos Peninsula’, which will be held in the exhibition space of the Mount Athos Center from 19 April until 15 June 2019. Mount Athos represents the most important nucleus of Orthodox monasticism,…

On the occasion of Lenten season, the seminarians at the Saint John of Damascus Institute of Theology at the University of Balamand carried out a series of pastoral visits to several parishes in the Archdiocese of Tripoli, Al-Koura, and their dependencies. In their visits, the seminarians joined the parishioners in the service of Great Compline…

  Romania’s Minister for Romanians Abroad, Natalia-Elena Intotero, this week visited the Patriarchate of Bucharest’s delegation in Jerusalem, as part of her official visit to Israel. She also toured Romanian sites in Jerusalem, travelled to Jericho and also expressed a particular interest in the Holy Lands.

Under the High Patronage of His Beatitude Patriarch John X of Antioch and All the East, a lecture titled “Artificial Intelligence and Theology” was presented at the Saint John of Damascus Institute of Theology at the University of Balamand on Tuesday, April 16, 2019 and on Thursday, April 18, 2019. The lecture was jointly presented…

  Father Nicolae Tanase referred to the central role, as he said, played by the family in the life of an individual and in promoting Christian values. The Romanian Orthodox cleric, who has six children of his own, has devoted his life to protecting orphans and abandoned children.

  A delegation of the Serbian army, which included military chaplains of the Serbian Orthodox Church, visited the US state of Ohio recently, following an invitation by Ohio National Guard Maj.-Gen. John Harris. Members of the delegation visited the National Veterans Memorial and Museum in Columbus, Ohio as well as Orthodox cathedrals in the area.

  The head of the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Jerusalem, Archimandrite Alexandre Elisov, this week met with the mayor of Nazareth, with discussions focusing on cooperation between the Russian Church and local officials. Archimandrite Alexandre emphasized that the Russian Church wants to facilitate the arrival of thousands of pilgrims that annually visit the Biblical town.

  The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, spoke this week to a local association of Harvard graduates. According to an announcement by the Patriarchate of Constantinople, His All Holiness was invited to speak to the association’s members at an event held at the Hilton İstanbul Maslak hotel. Bartholomew detailed the role…

  The need for the greatest possible effort to safeguard stability in the strife-plagued Middle East was the primary message in a joint communiqué issued on Thursday in Nicosia, Cyprus, by the primates of four of the five most ancient autocephalous Orthodox Churches in the world. The meeting brought together the Patriarch of Alexandria and…