Serbian Orthodox faithful were again the target of provocations and discrimination in Kosovo. In particular, believers from Serbia were recently prevented from visiting holy sites and participating in feast day celebrations in Kosovo, reports the Diocese of Raška and Prizren of the Serbian Orthodox Church. The new incidents come just days after a church in…

A shocking acid attack targeted seven Metropolitans of the Church of Greece on Wednesday afternoon, with at least three sustaining serious injuries that required admission to a north Athens hospital’s burn unit. The perpetrator is reportedly either a clergyman who appeared before a synodal disciplinary hearing or one of his supporters. The Metropolitans were hearing…

The Archbishop of Australia, His Eminence Makarios, officiated at the Divine Liturgy held at the historic Monastery of Agios Georgios Epanosifis, near Irakleio, Crete, on the occasion of his brief visit to his native island. His Eminence was due Constantinople to participate in a Holy Synod meeting of the Ecumenical Patriarchate. Archbishop Makarios was accompanied…

The newly elected Metropolitan of Montenegro & the Littoral, His Eminence Joanikije II, this week received, in separate meetings, the ambassadors of Bulgaria and Russia accredited to the Adriatic country. His Eminence received the envoys at the historic Monastery of Ce-TIN-ech. Both ambassadors conveyed the congratulations from their respective governments for his election to the…

The Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, His Holiness Kirill, on Tuesday participated in events commemorating the 80th anniversary of the Nazi invasion of the then Soviet Union, what is known in Russia as the Great Patriotic War. The Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church laid a wreath at the Eternal Flame near the Kremlin…

The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, this week received at the Patriarchate the Grand Protosyncellus Theodoros, whom he congratulated on his election as a professor at the Higher Patriarchal Ecclesiastical Academy of Crete. In a related development, His All Holiness, along with the Synodal Hierarchs, travelled to the Halki Seminary on…

  The Greek government’s Cabinet convened in a virtual manner on Wednesday morning, chaired by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. One of the items on the voluminous agenda was a recommendation by the relevant foreign minister regarding the annual endowment allocated by the Greek state to the Monasteries on the semi-autonomous monastic community of Mount Athos,…

  The Church today venerates the memory of Agrippina the Martyr of Rome. Today is also the feast day of the Holy Martyrs Aristocleus the Priest, Demetrius the Deacon and Athanasius the Reader.

On Tuesday 9/22 June 2021, the graduates and the other students of the Patriarchal School of Zion, with Archimandrite Mattheos and other staff members of the School, were received by H.H.B. our Father and Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos. The students thanked His Beatitude for the education and the boarding school care that was offered by…