Church leader causes storm by claiming services need not stop, as it is impossible to catch virus from healing sacraments – a view health professionals dispute. Metropolitan Neofit of Sofia, the Patriarch of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, has drawn anger – and some ridicule – after his office said church services would continue in the…

On Saturday of the First week of Great Lent, February 23/ March 7, 2020, the Patriarchate celebrated the commemoration of the Holy Hieromartyr Polykarp Bishop of Smyrna according to the immobile feasts of the Minaion, and the commemoration of the boiled wheat miracle of the Holy Great Martyr Theodore the Tyro, according to the mobile…

On the First Sunday of Great Lent, February 24/ March 8, 2020, the Patriarchate celebrated as ‘Parresia’ at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre the commemoration of the restoration of the Holy Icons by the Empress Theodora and her son Michael in 842, during the Patriarchal Office of St. Methodios the Confessor. Ever since, the…

He who drives away the carnal thought by prayer is like someone fighting with a lion; he who subdues him by his resistance is someone still pursuing his enemy; but he who has once for all reduced its appeal to nothing, even though he is still in the flesh, is as one who has already risen from…

Following the Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s announcements for limiting gatherings over 500 people and given the developments of the increasing cases of Covid -19 (corona-virus) in Australia, His Eminence Archbishop Makarios in cooperation with the Organizing Committees, announces the cancellation of the Parades, that were scheduled to take place in Melbourne on the 22nd and…

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  The Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Albania this week joined other Orthodox Churches around the world in announcing preventative measures against the coronavirus, calling on the faithful to follow guidelines issued by the World Health Organization and the country’s public health authorities. On its part, the Patriarchate of Romania issued an encyclical with public health…

  Peaceful street demonstrations and prayer rallies continued in the small Adriatic country of Montenegro by tens of thousands of people backing the Orthodox Church and opposing a law that threatens to confiscate Church properties and relics.   

  Archbishop Ieronymos on Friday again referred to the coronavirus crisis and the strict measures taken to prevent a mass outbreak. In a statement to Greece’s state-run news agency, the Primate of the Church of Greece noted that “… Our Church embraces all; it loves all and prays for all. The Church does not retain…