A joint ministerial decision in Greece this week clarified that up to nine people can (including the clergyman officiating at the ceremony), after all, attend religious weddings in areas of the country were the highest level of Covid-19 concentrations are recorded, i.e. areas in the “red zone”.  

The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, has conveyed his love and solidarity to the Metropolitan of Larissa and Tyrnavos, His Eminence Ieronymos, in the wake of last Wednesday’s 6 on the Richter scale quake, which struck the Thessaly province. Numerous buildings were damages, but thankfully, no serious injuries or fatalities were…

On Friday afternoon, 21 February/ 6 March 2021, at the Monastic Church of Saints Constantine and Helen the Memorial Service for the Hagiotaphite Fathers, Patriarchs of Jerusalem, Archbishops, Hieromonks and Monks was held, according to the order of the Triodion. The Service was officiated by H.H.B. the Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos with the participation of…

The Orthodox faithful of Gulu-Uganda celebrated their feast day of St.Lavrentios today. During the Holy Liturgy an elderly couple of Benensio and Judith were joined into Holy Matrimony. The couple are longtime parishoners of St.Lavrentios Parish but hadnot done the Holy Mystery of Matrimony. They had organised a number of times without success as always…

The victims of the coronavirus pandemic were remembered Wednesday at a Chapel of Saint John the New Monastery in Suceava. The Divine Liturgy and a memorial service were officiated by several clerics from the Archdiocese. “We prayed for all those who were killed by this virus, but especially for those in Suceava County which, as…

After the Matins, funeral service and the Liturgy, the funeral procession, led by the clergy, carrying the body of the newly departed Bishop Atanasije, set off from the Cathedral church through the central city streets, through Zasad Polje, to the Tvrdos Monastery, where the burial place was prepared. A funeral procession with thousands of faithful…

On March 2, 2021, on the eve of the Bulgaria’s Day of the Liberation from Ottoman Yoke, Bishop Polycarp of Belogradchik, vicar of the Metropolis of Sofia, led the service for the dead at the monument tor military doctors who fell in battles for the liberation of Bulgaria during the 1877-1878 Russian-Turkish war. Archimandrite Vassian…

A new monastery in honour of the Romanian heroes who sacrificed their lives during the Second World War will be built in Țiganca, the Republic of Moldova. Several associations from Romania and the Republic of Moldova launched a fundraising campaign to help the monastery’s construction. “There are places where history was written in blood. There…

The Romanian Orthodox Diocese of Canada announced that it will establish a virtual school for religious education that will promote Orthodox values in the diaspora. The proposal was made during a meeting held on February 22-23, 2021. His Grace Bishop Ioan Casian met with the priests and coordinators of the Sunday School programs within the Diocese of…