After the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts, His Holiness Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church Mr. Porfirije conducted a memorial service for his holy predecessors, archbishops and Serbian patriarchs, as well as for the victims of the 2004 unrest in Kosovo and Metohija, in the Monastery of the Peć Patriarchate, on March 17, 2021. –…

“The fight for life never takes a break, but faith in God gives me strength,” an emergency rescue service SMURD paramedic told AGERPRES. Major lieutenant Mihaela Nicoleta Enache from Mihăileşti Intervention Guard within Romanian General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations (ISU) Giurgiu. Mihaela Enache spoke about the mission she carries out at ISU Giurgiu, the challenges…

The Interparliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy (IAO) and Orthphoto.net launched last week a photography competition inspired by Constantinople’s Hagia Sophia Basilica (“The Church of the Holy Wisdom of God”). Participants are invited to send images of temples dedicated to the Wisdom of God from all over the world, be they Orthodox or from other Christian denominations….

In recent months, Romania has become the main transit gateway for migrants, most of them from Afghanistan, who are trying to reach the countries of Western Europe in search of a better life. More than two-thirds of migrants crossing Romania are registered in the western city of Timisoara, many returning there after being accommodated in…

On Monday, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel read the first portion of the Great Canon of Saint Andrew of Crete at the Patriarchal Residence’s historic chapel. On this occasion, His Beatitude emphasized that a strict fast supports humble and fervent prayer. “This practice of fasting means an abrupt beginning of the fight against sin,” the Patriarch…

If there must be a revolution, then there is no better day to begin the revolution than March 25th….” By Dr. Aristotle Papanikolaou Today we celebrate two revolutions: one political and the other ontological. We are reminded that the ontological revolution of Christ’s Incarnation is simultaneously a political revolution, one that we must fight to…

A translation, into Thai, of the 7th century Great Canon of St. Andrew of Crete – also known as the Canon of Repentance – has been completed and published. Work to translate the extensive penitential canon had received the blessing of the Metropolitan and Russian Orthodox Exarch of Singapore and South-East Asia, His Eminence Sergius….

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,…

The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, on Tuesday was briefed by visiting Archbishop Elpidophoros of America over the progress of construction of St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church and National Shrine at “Ground Zero” in Manhattan. During his audience with the Ecumenical Patriarch at the Patriarchal seat in Constantinople’s Fanar district, His…