The Patriarchate of Georgia has set up a working group to look into hate speech and critical remarks about Church in the media, Father Andria Jaghmaidze said. “The working group has been set up. The group is composed of representatives of Patriarchate, NGOs and other stakeholders. We intend to analyze international experience how to regulate…

The Life-Giving Spring Centre for addiction therapy was inaugurated at the Holy Annunciation Monastery in Tisa-Silvestri in northeast Romania on Saturday, April 13, 2019. The centre, intended for treatment of both alcohol and drug addictions, operates at the monastery as part of the Siloam Socio-Medical Association. The complex was blessed by His Eminence Archbishop Ioachim…

On Saturday April 6, His Grace visited Colorado Springs, CO where Divine Liturgy was celebrated in the local OCA church. Faithful from across town gathered to welcome our hierarch. Three priests concelebrated with His Grace, Fr. Anthony, Fr. Simeon and Fr. Radovan. This gathering was especially joyful due to the feast day of Annunciation to…

The Russian Orthodox Church painfully perceives the wide-scale fire happened on Monday evening in Notre Dame de Paris. “It’s hard to express the pain. Our eyes are full of tears. These “old stones of Europe” are also a part of our soul, our spiritual history. This terrific loss, I believe, unites us with western Christians,…

By the Mercy of God Patriarch of the Holy City of Jerusalem and all Palestine to all the members of the Church, grace and mercy and peace from the All-holy and Life-giving Tomb of the Resurrected Christ. “Ye seek Jesus of Nazareth, which was crucified: he is risen; he is not here: behold the place…

After touching encounters with the Serbs in Strpce and Kosovsko Pomoravlje, His Holiness Patriarch visited the Gracanica Monastery on 16 April 2019. Serbian Patriarch Irinej was solemnly greeted in Gracanica monastery by Bishop Teodosije of Raska-Prizren with abbess Stephanida as well as the sisterhood of the Gracanica. Following the prayer in the church of the…

Update: a communique from the meeting has been released, in Greek, and the issue of Ukraine is mentioned only briefly. This does not mean that the issue was not front and center for the assembled primates and could be considered as simply “another step” on the Ukraine issue, as outlined below. Among other items on…

Preparations are made for the sanctification of the Holy Chrism in the Romanian Orthodox Church next week. This celebration takes place approximately once every ten years, when the reserve of Holy Chrism nears depletion, in accordance with the pastoral and missionary needs of an Autocephalous Orthodox Church. When will the sanctification take place? After completing…

Ethiopia on Thursday confirmed that a cross offered to the Notre-Dame Cathedral in 1954 was among some of the pieces of history that survived a blaze that ravaged the church. Emmanuel Besnier, Deputy Head of Mission at the Embassy of France in Ethiopia, confirmed on Twitter that the cross offered by His Imperial Highness Haile…