Two Romanian films are registered in the Byzanfest Orthodox Film Festival, which is unfolding online between October 23 and November 8: a psychological drama where the main character turns out to be St Nicholas and a documentary showing an educational game with the children from the Orthodox Valea Plopului settlement. “500” is nominated for the…

The Romanian Orthodox Church in Tokyo was consecrated on Tuesday, on the feast of the transfer of St George’s relics to his church in Lydda. The service was officiated by Romanian Metropolitan Iosif of Western Europe and Metropolitan Daniel of Tokyo and Japan. The consecration concluded the restoration works which took several years. The Romanian…

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Watch the third online assembly from Mount Athos with the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi, with chanters:

A light tremor measuring 4.4 on the Richter scale was recorded at 00:16 on Friday, 125 km east-southeast of Thessaloniki, in the sea region of Chalkidiki. The earthquake was felt in Chalkidiki, including Mount Athos. According to professor of seismology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Manolis Skordilis, so far there has been only one…

The historic Church of the Annunciation in Melbourne is set to re-open its doors to the faithful for the first time since a devastating fire in 2016. The restoration works are expected to proceed right up until the upcoming Christmas season when the faithful will be able to return to the church, and with all…

The Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, His Holiness Kirill, this week conferred, via teleconference, with Russian President Vladimir Putin, on the occasion of the National Unity Day in the vast country. The Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church took part in the session, which was also attended by other religious leaders in the country,…

Hashim Thaçi, a top guerilla leader during an insurgency by ethnic Albanians in the Kosovo province during the late 1990s, on Friday resigned as the breakaway region’s president, after being indicted for war crimes and crimes against humanity by a special court based in The Hague. Thaçi announced his resignation at a news conference in…

A general lockdown throughout Greece will come into effect as of Saturday morning and until Nov. 30, part of urgent measures to prevent exposure to the Covid-19 pandemic. The coronavirus pandemic has surged over the past two months in the east Mediterranean country, after a summer period of low confirmed infections and related fatalities. All…