The Church today venerates the memory of Paul the Confessor, Patriarch of Constantinople. He was the sixth bishop of Constantinople, elected first in 337. Paul was renowned as a polemicist of the Arian heretics. He was installed and deposed three times from the See of Constantinople. St. Paul the Confessor was strangled to death during…

The Greek Orthodox priest based in the French city of Lyon has woken from a coma after Monday’s successful surgery. Although fake news spread on Sunday that Father Nikolaos Kakavelakis, who was shot twice in the stomach on Saturday, had died, Greek City Times confirmed with a family contact that the priest was “doing well” after Monday’s…

The renovated Holy Church of the Annunciation of Our Lady, or Evangelismos tis Theotokou, is preparing to open its doors to the faithful before Christmas for the first time after a disastrous fire in 2016. The fire blazed through much of the Church’s interior on the day after Easter in 2016, and restoration work has…

According to Premier, a group of church leaders has said it will sue the government over its decision to close churches in the new lockdown set to begin on Thursday. Seventy-one church leaders have signed the pre-action letter asking the government not to impose a ban on worship services and say they will pursue judicial review…

A mural of His Eminence Metropolitan Amfilohije, the newly-departed head of the Metropolis of Montenegro of the Serbian Orthodox Church, appeared in the city of Nis, Serbia. It was painted by Sava Mišić next to an elementary school, reports Mitropolija.com. The location of the mural was specifically chosen so children could see the portrait of Metropolitan Amfilohije and…

Vladimir Legoyda, Head of the Synodal Department for Church’s Relations with Society and Mass Media, called this “the most blatant discrimination”. A Mississippi family is suing their young daughter’s school on the grounds of religious discrimination after the principal told the girl to remove a face-mask with the words “Jesus Loves Me” printed across it….

The Orthodox Church treats people with non-traditional orientation with pastoral responsibility, not driving them out of churches, but helping them to overcome their unnatural attraction, said Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, Chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate. “We treat people with non-traditional sexual orientation with pastoral responsibility. We do not expel…

On Thursday, October 23 / November 5, 2020, the Patriarchate celebrated the commemoration of the Holy Apostle James the Brother of God. On this Feast, the whole Church, and especially the Church of Jerusalem commemorates Saint James, son of Joseph the Betrothed, and brother of the Lord according to the law (according to Matthew 13:55;…

On Friday, October 24, 2020, one day after the Feast of the Throne of Jerusalem on the commemoration of Saint James the Brother of God, the Divine Liturgy was celebrated along with the Memorial Service for the Patriarchs who are buried at the Forty Martyrs’ chapel, which is located between the Hagiotaphite Brotherhood and the…