The head of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church made a public address to the people for the new 2021. “With gratitude to God and with new hope for Bulgaria and for the whole world we cross the threshold of 2021. We hope and pray that the past 2020, which was a year of the unprecedented diffuculties…

From all of us here at the Orthodoxia News Agency we would like to wish you a happy, healthy and blessed with God’s grace New Year. Chronia Polla!

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On December 29, 2020, His Beatitude John X, Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, received His Excellency Ambassador Bassam Al-Sabbagh, the new permanent representative of Syria to the United Nations at the Patriarchate in Damascus. His Beatitude extended wishes to the new Ambassador for success as head of the Syrian delegation of Representatives to…

The decades-long established meeting of the President of the State of Israel Mr Reuven Rivlin with the Heads of the Churches and Religious Institutions in the State of Israel, for the New Civil Year, 2021, took place on Wednesday, 17/30 December 2020. This year, the meeting was held according to the covid-19 restrictive measures. His…

Metropolitan Ambrosios of Korea issued his message for the New Year. The message reads: My dear Brothers and Sisters in the Lord, The year 2020, to which we just said goodbye, was a year of deep crisis that judged our love, patience and humanity. The crisis has tested people’s resilience in terms of health, economics,…

Bishop Silvester Kisitu of Gulu and Eastern Uganda issued his message for the New Year. The message reads: Beloved Brethren and Children in Christ, As I extend to you my New Year wishes, I humbly thank our Lord, because towards the end period of this year I went through a difficult struggle with Covid19 infection,…

On December 29, 2020, Archbishop of Cyprus Chrysostomos B’ was vaccinated against COVID-19 at the Latsia Medical Center. Speaking to journalists, the Archbishop thanked the scientists who invented the vaccine that will help people get antibodies to face COVID-19. He also urged people to respect the measures that the government announced because, in the opposite…

Children of St. Basil’s Missionary Center on Thursday sang New Year’s carols to the Metropolitan of Zambia, His Eminence Ioannis, at the center in the Zambian capital of Lusaka.