Brothers and Sisters in the Lord, In a few short days, we will begin Great Lent and our journey to the celebration of the Resurrection of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. With Clean Monday, we will begin the Great Fast, as Lent is often called, and turn our focus to our spiritual and religious…

In the presence of Their Royal Highnesses Crown Prince Alexander and Crown Princess Katherine, His Holiness Serbian Patriarch Porfirije consecrated the restored Holy Cross that adorns the dome of the Royal Chapel of St. Andrew the First-Called, patron saint of the Karadjordjevic family. After the consecration of the Holy Cross, Crown Prince Alexander and Crown…

On the occasion of the forthcoming Sunday of Orthodoxy, which based on the Lenten calendar for 2021 will be commemorated this Sunday, March 21, the St. Maxim the Greek Institute and the online platform Pemptousia will host an online theology synaxis with several Orthodox primates, hierarchs, elders and academics, including the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople,…

An Athens-based Orthodox missionary organization, “Enotis” (unity), has filed a motion against the Greek government with the European Court of Human Rights against a pandemic-related decision by the former prohibiting the presence of worshippers during Church services in areas of high Covid-19 concentrations. The group charges a violation of freedom of religion and freedom to…

The Patriarchate of Jerusalem on Thursday celebrated the first week of Great Lent with the transference to the commemoration of St. Gerasimus of the Jordan at the Holy Monastery dedicated to the saint, in the desert of the river Jordan, a short distance from the river’s estuaries towards the Dead Sea. This Monastery was founded…

The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, on Friday received the visiting Mayor of Athens, Kostas Bakoyannis, as well as the Mayor of the Bosporus metropolis, Ekrem İmamoğlu, who has shot to the political limelight in Turkey as a rival to authoritarian Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The two mayors arrived at…

The Orthodoxia News Agency and the online platform Pemptousia on Friday will live-stream the Holy Services of the First Friday of Lent – the liturgy of the Salutations to the Theotokos, the Virgin Mary – from the Catholicos (main cathedral) of the Holy Monastery of Asteriou, beginning at 5 p.m. (15.00 GMT). Live-streaming services during…

The First Salutation to the Theotokos, the All-Holy Virgin Mary, will be celebrated today at all Orthodox places of worship around the world, the First Friday of Great Lent for 2021.  

His Grace Bishop Longin of New Gracanica-Midwestern America in canonical visit to parishes in Minnesota Serbs emigrated to Minnesota at the turn of the 20th century and settled in three highly industrialized areas.: The Iron Range, Duluth and the St. Paul-Minneapolis metropolitan area (The Тwin Cities). In all these regions, Serbs built their churches. In…