On December 2, 2021, the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE) and the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA) hosted the sections of the Fifth National Academic Conference (with international participation) on Theology in Academic-Educational Space: Theory, History, Practice of International and Inter-Cultural Dialogue in the Situation of Global…

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The Russian Patriarchate’s Metropolitan of Volokolamsk, His Eminence Hilarion, this week attended an inauguration ceremony at Moscow’s State Historical Museum of the exhibition “The History of the Russian Empire”. His Eminence represented the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, His Holiness Kirill. The new thematic exhibition is part of a series of commemorative events on…

Representatives of the 17 recognized religious faiths and confessions in Romania, including the Romanian Orthodox Church, the dominant and oldest denomination in the country, met on Thursday with Romanian Prime Minister Nicolae (tsi-U-ka) Ciucă and the relevant health minister. The meeting focused entirely on the presence of faithful in places of worship amid the ongoing…

The exodios funeral service for Fr. Loukas of Vatopedi was held on Thursday at the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi on Mount Athos. The Elder Loukas, born Panagiotis Dimakakos, reposed in the Lord on Wednesday at the age of 82. The funeral service was officiated by the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the…

The Sacred and Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople on Thursday approved a recent decision by the Church of Crete’s Holy Eparchial Synod to relieve Archbishop of Crete Irineos from his duties, due to his deteriorating health condition. The Ecumenical Patriarchate urged the Holy Eparchial Synod of Crete to instruct a three-hierarch committee…

The Church today venerates the memory of the Prophet Zephaniah, or Sophonias. Today is also the feast day of the Venerable Theodoulos the Cypriot, the Fool for Christ.

His Holiness Porfirije, the Serbian Patriarch, served the Holy Hierarchical Liturgy in the Patriarchate’s side chapel of Saint Simeon the Miracle-worker on 2 December 2021, on the feast day of Saint Porphyrios of Kafsokalivia. In a prayerful presence of Their Graces Bishops Jerotej of Toplica and Justin of Hvosno, His Holiness was concelebrated by protosynchellos…

У уторак, 30. новембра 2021. године, испред Соколског дома у Суботици, свечано је откривен споменик краљу Петру I Карађорђевићу. Свечаном откривању споменика је присуствовао Његово Преосвештенство Епископ мохачки г. Дамаскин са свештенством и ђаконством Епархије бачке. Свечаности су присуствовали и представници Римокатоличке Цркве, као и републичких и локалних власти. После откривања споменика, Преосвећени владика Дамаскин…