As this Coronavirus crisis continues to spread and intensify on a global scale, the Ecumenical Patriarchate is monitoring the situation with an urgent sense of responsibility towards its faithful and all people without exception, and, following the Communiqué of 11 March 2020, upon deliberation of its Hierarchs in the City, announces the following: 1) The…

Wayne, West Virgina, March 18, 2020 As Orthodox parishes continue to severely reduce their liturgical schedules or close altogether, a number of monasteries and parishes have begun offering livestreams of their services for the faithful to join them in prayer from home. Among them is Holy Cross Monastery in Wayne, West Virginia of the Russian…

  A team of specialists briefed the Patriarch of Serbia, His Holiness Irinej, over the ongoing pandemic, with a later announcement by the Patriarchate calling on the faithful to strictly follow guidelines and directives issued by state officials and public health authorities. On the eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus, the Metropolitan of Limassol, His Eminence…

Moscow-area parishes, in cooperation with social workers, are organizing the delivery of food stuffs and medicines to elderly people stranded in their homes. At the same time, the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, His Holiness Kirill, approved of a series of measures to disinfect cathedrals, chapels, monasteries and all Church properties in the vast…

  The Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Albania, in similar fashion with other Orthodox Churches around the region, announced that cathedrals and chapels around the country will remain open only for personal worship. Daily services have been cancelled, while the Divine Liturgies on Sundays and during the Feast of the Annunciation on March 25 will be…

  Archbishop Elpidophoros of America held a prayer service at the Archdiocese Chapel of St. Paul, in New York City, for the healing and remission of sickness during the ongoing escalation of COVID-19.

  The daily lives of billions of people around the world have been severely affected by the ongoing Covid-19 outbreak, what scientists are now calling a global pandemic. As in previous times of dire distress, the faithful have turned to prayer to the Almighty, for comfort and salvation from this menace. On Tuesday evening, at…

The Church today venerates the memory of Cyril, Patriarch of Jerusalem. This Saint was born in 315, and succeeded Maximus as Archbishop of Jerusalem in 350. He was zealous for the Orthodox faith, and was a defender of the poor — reposing in 387.

Daddy George gathered his family and said: There is an epidemic named Corona, which is a contagious virus. The state and the Church have taken measures for our benefit. We’ll be together at home all this period, making the best of our time to benefit and share useful things together as a family so that…