The deputy head of the external Church relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, Arch-priest Nikolay Balashov, this week decried the conversion of the Chora Church in Turkey into a mosque, after photographs emerged online, showing mosaics and frescoes covered with curtains inside the historic Chora Church. In a post on Facebook, the hierarch referred to the…

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Thursday said his government wants to avoid a nationwide “lockdown”, amid a resurgent coronavirus pandemic in the country, with single-day confirmed instances now exceeding 1,000 — at the same time when they only reached into the low single-digit numbers last spring. Another three regions in the country, the greater…

The Church today venerates the memory of Anastasia the Martyr of Rome. St. Anastasia, who was young in age and lived in a convent, was seized by the impious. Confessing Christ openly and with boldness, and enduring numerous torments, she was beheaded in the year 256, during the reign of Valerian.

12th / 25th OCTOBER 2020: On the Sunday of the Holy Fathers of the Seventh Ecumenical Council, on which day were also commemorated St Martin the Merciful and St Edwin the King and Martyr of the British Isles, His Grace Bishop Irenei of London and Western Europe headed the Divine Liturgy at the Church of…

In the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. My dear brothers and sisters: we are living now in a moment that demands faith — and not faith in ourselves, or in our civil structures, in governments or in the wisdom of men. We are living in a moment that requires faith…

On Thursday, October 22, His Holiness Patriarch Irinej of Serbia and Serbian President Aleksandr Vučić visited St. Sava’s Cathedral in Belgrade to examine the newly-revealed mosaics. Last month, OrthoChristian reported that work on the cathedral’s unique and beautiful mosaics was completed. Now that most of the scaffolding in the church has been removed, the images…

During his sermon on Tuesday, Patriarch Daniel referred to two aspects of God’s presence and work in the world through Saint Demetrios the New: on the one hand, the delicacy and the miraculous help offered to the believers, on the other hand, the ‘bitter medicine’ administered to people for correction. The Patriarch of Romania highlighted…

At the all-night vigil service held in honour of St. Demetrios the Myrrh-gusher, a great martyr of the 4th century, the Patriarchal Auxiliary Bishop Varlaam of Ploieşti spoke about the current persecutions against Christians and stressed that Christianity is the most persecuted religion in the world. “Usually when we talk about persecution we refer to…

On October 1, residents of the Dagoretti Corner settlement in Nairobi, Kenya, were evicted from their homes by the Kenya Railways Corporation and the Kenya Power & Lighting Company government agencies, despite the presidential moratorium on evictions during the COVID-19 pandemic. The eviction left more than 3,000 people homeless, reports Amnesty International. After the eviction,…