Orthodox Churches are modifying and adapting to the unprecedented cornonavirus pandemic, namely, restrictions on non-essential movement and public assemblies, all ahead of Holy and Great Easter. In Romania, the Holy Flame will be transported by plane and arrive in Bucharest on the evening of April 18, Holy and Great Saturday, whereby it will be distributed…

The Moscow Patriarchate this week reminded that viewing the holy services and the Divine Liturgy from television, or the Internet, is a mere “substitute” for worship — essentially an emergency measure in the face of the ongoing pandemic. The Church added that nothing can replace the personal and intimate presence of the faithful in cathedrals….

The Metropolitan of Limassol, His Eminence Athanasios, continues his outreach to the faithful on a daily basis via a special program on the Metropolis’ radio station – an initiative that aims to offer comfort and encouragement to the Orthodox faithful amid the ongoing trial, and with cathedrals closed on the island republic. The program is…

The annual ceremony of the Holy Washbowl, held outdoors on Easter Thursday, or Maundy Thursday, on the eastern Aegean island of Patmos, will be conducted without the presence of worshipers. The ceremony will be held indoors at the main cathedral of the iconic St. John the Theologian Monastery — following a decision by the monastery’s…

An association representing clerics in Greece, in an letter to the Holy Synod of the Church of Greece, cites its sorrow over restrictive measures affecting places of worship, particularly ahead of next week’s Holy Easter Week. The association bemoans the fact that cathedrals and chapels in the east Mediterranean country will be closed even for…

New York – On Western Easter, Sunday April 12th, the renowned CBS news program, 60 Minutes, will showcase the rebuilding of the Saint Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church and National Shrine at the World Trade Center. The relationship between the Archdiocese and 60 Minutes dates back over a decade, when the late Bob Simon did a…

On April 6, 2020, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Konstantinos Vlasis met, in his office, with the Exarch of the Holy Sepulchre, Archimandrite Damianos, to discuss the procedure for transporting the Holy Light from Jerusalem to Greece. Due to the pandemic, and to safeguard public health, the procedure will differ from the practice of previous…

At the beginning of the Sixth week of Lent, on the eve of the Feast of the Annunciation, the Serbian Orthodox Church Charity organized another charitable action within a series of actions to support the users of the Church Soup Kitchen. Since the start of emergency, about two thousand users of the Church Soup Kitchen…

Οrthodox Metropolitanate of Montenegro and the Littoral is active in supporting the Roma people through numerous manifestations and humanitarian actions, such as in clothes and shoes for poor Roma families, not only in Podgorica, capital of Montenegro, but in Pljevlje as well, where our Metropolitante helped many Romas. They also get help in food and…