A new Orthodox chapel will soon adorn the stark Antarctic landscape, as Russian Orthodox Archbishop, His Eminence Kallistrat, of Gorno-Altai and Chemal, late last month consecrated the site for a future chapel in honor of St. Nicholas the Wonder-worker. There are already at least two Orthodox chapels and one church on the earth’s southernmost continent…

Sunday, March 8, marks the Sunday of Orthodoxy, commemorating the restoration of the Holy Icons in 843 by the widow Empress Theodora, together with the Patriarch Methodius This ever-memorable monarch venerated the icon of the Mother of God in the presence of Patriarch Methodius and other confessors and righteous men. A synodical and con-celebratory Divine…

The Metropolitan of Volokolamsk, His Eminence Hilarion, this week received the religious affairs councilor of the Turkish embassy in Moscow, Omer Farouk Savouran. In greeting the Turkish diplomat, Metropolitan Hilarion, who heads the Moscow Patriarchate’s external Church relations department, referred to the significance in ties between the Russian Church and Turkey’s state-run directorate of religious…

The Patriarch of Serbia, His Holiness Irinej, was warmly received this week at the Archdiocese of America, in NYC, by the Archbishop of America, His Eminence Elpidophoros. The Archbishop referred to a spirit of cooperation between the two Churches in the United States, as well as the standing support by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople…

Greek culture Minister Lina Mendoni and US ambassador to Greece, Geoffrey Pyatt, on Wednesday signed the renewal of a memorandum of understanding between the US and Greece regarding efforts to combat the smuggling of antiquities, relics and works of arts. In a statement on his Twitter account, Pyatt stressed what he called a great, wide-ranging…

The situation in Greece’s northeast land border remained explosive on Thursday, as security forces and military personnel mobilized along the frontier with Turkey to prevent the mass entry of thousands of third country nationals – which have been allowed, encouraged and often forced by Turkish authorities to illegally breach the border. The goal is to…

His Grace Bishop Ignatie of Huși cautioned that in an age of technology we should extend our fasting rules to technology in order to gain spiritual peace during Lent. ‘We live in an age of technology and another type of fasting is required, a media quarantine,’ the Bishop of Huși stressed during Forgiveness Vespers marking…

St. Nicholas Church will be built in Antarctica, according to the Gorno-Altai Diocese. With the blessing of Patriarch Kirill, Archbishop Kallistrat of Gorno-Altai and Chemal made a trip to the Novolazarevskaya Antarctic Research Station located in the South-Eastern part of the Schirmacher Oasis on the coast of Queen Maud Land, about 80 km from the Lazarev Sea…

One week after his ordination to the episcopate, His Grace Bishop Benedict of Bistrița, Romania’s youngest Orthodox hierarch, celebrated his first Divine Liturgy in his home town Sartăş. Addressing those present, the assistant bishop to the Archdiocese of Vad, Feleac, and Cluj, confessed that after his ordination the first thing that came to his mind…