On 7 December, 2020, the Bulgarian National Bank (BNB) issued a Nativity gold commemorative coin from the series “Bulgarian iconography”. The price of the coin, which can be purchased at the BNB is 1,300 Leva /664.68 EUR/. On the obverse side of the coin there is an inscription “Bulgarian National Bank”, its nominal value –…

  Responding to the requests of many Russian-speaking Faithful from all over the world, we inform you that PEMPTOUSIA is organizing the “1st eSynaxis from Mount Athos with Elder Ephraim and Russian Speaking Faithful” which will take place on Thursday, December 10 at 19:30 Greek Time – 20.30 (Moscow time) – 12:30 (Eastern Time). Elder…

The assistant bishop to the Archdiocese of Bucharest, His Grace Timotei of Prahova, urged everyone to stay away from the state of formalism, malice and hypocrisy.” “If we have something to say, we should always tell the person in question, not talk around the corner. Not indirectly, not hitting in some and in others, as…

NICOSIA — Restaurants and malls on Cyprus will lose the critical Christmas and holiday period for customers and sales, ordered to close as of Dec. 11 until the end of the year in an attempt to slow the spread of COVID-19, as will churches. “There is no such thing as good or nice restrictions, these…

BROOKLINE, MA – His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America visited the campus of Hellenic College Holy Cross to conduct an `Aghiasmos’ (blessing of the waters) at the newly renovated Maliotis Cultural Center. The Service was a fitting celebratory symbol of the Center’s rebirth after a protracted period of legal difficulties, recently resolved successfully thanks largely…

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Today the Bulgarian Orthodox church celebrates the Conception of the Most Holy Theotokos by Saint Anna, who is patron saint of all things feminine, of marriage, family and motherhood. In folklore, besides motherhood, this day is also associated with the turning of the Sun to the East towards spring, and the increase of the length…

The new leader of the Turkish Cypriot community on the divided island republic this week continued his verbal provocations, taking his cue from Ankara, which illegally occupies one-third of Cyprus. Ersin Tatar told media in the occupied areas of Cyprus that “…Varosha is ours”, a reference to a coastal ghost town abandoned since August 1974….

The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, this week received the new German ambassador to Turkey, Jürgen Schulz, at the Patriarchate’s Phanar-district seat.