Well-known Serbian film director Emir Kusturica this week, in an interview with the magazine International Affairs, referred to what he called “new western consumer models” that damage Christian identity. Moreover, the award-winning filmmaker warned that tactics often employed by multinationals smother his creativity and freedom. Kusturica, while discussing the ongoing global crisis, spoke about the…

The Patriarch of All Romania, His Beatitude Daniel, met with newly ordained clerics of the Romanian Orthodox Church this week, where he spoke on the role of the priest in the Church. His Beatitude noted that each cleric must allow himself to be entrusted in the hands of God, and to also request from all…

The Bishop of Budimlja–Nikšić, His Grace Ioannicus, the Patriarchate of Serbia’s locum tenens, or administrator, for the Holy Metropolis of Montenegro and the Littoral, on Wednesday arrived at the Beška Monastery, on the occasion of the feast of the Annunciation, as based on the Julian calendar, which is followed by the Serbian Church for its…

The Annunciation of the All-Holy Theotokos, the Virgin Mary, based on the Julian calendar, was celebrated on Wednesday by the Patriarchate of Jerusalem in the Nazareth, at the holy shrine in the town. The Patriarch of Jerusalem, His Most Godly Beatitude Theophilos III, officiated, with co-celebrants being Metropolitan Kyriakos of Nazareth and several other hierarchs…

The Greek government on Wednesday announced that high schools will reopen throughout the country, without exceptions, on Monday, April 12, after a blue chip committee of epidemiologists and public health experts gave their approval, in a majority vote. The reopening will be accompanied by strict Covid-19 precautions, such as the mandatory wearing of face masks…

The Church today venerates the memory of Celestine, Pope of Rome.    

His Holiness Porfirije, Serbian Patriarch celebrated the Holy Hierarchal Liturgy in the crypt of the Saint Sava Cathedral in Belgrade on the feast of Annunciation, 7 April 2021. The Patriarch was concelebrated by Bishop Stefan (Saric) of Remesiana, abbot of the New Gracanica Monastery near Chicago Archimandrite Seraphim (Baltic), Archimandrit Justin (Jeremic) from Paris, protopresbyter-staurophor…

The great feast of the Annunciation of the Most Holy Theotokos is lauded in the Church’s hymns as the beginning of our salvation. At the St. Alexander Nevsky Lavra in St. Petersburg, it’s also celebrated as the anniversary of the beginning of the monastery. And yesterday, the monastic brotherhood also had the joy of celebrating…

Filmmaker Andrei Oprescu “has spent an extensive amount of time living together with the monks [of Mt. Athos], gaining their trust in order to be able to reveal a perspective that was never captured on camera before.” The fruit of his labor is the documentary, “People of Mt. Athos,” for which he has already shot…