Celebration of Saint Nicholas in Brisbane
25. December 2019 - 9:52
His Grace Bishop Siluan of Australia and New Zealand visited Brisbane, the city of Saint Nicholas, on December 18 and 19, 2019.
A festal Vesper service was performed in St. Nicholas Church in Waicol. Dean of the church Stanisa Ostojic and deacon Milos Raketic officiated the service. On the very feast-day, the Holy Divine Liturgy was celebrated in St. Nicholas Church on Ross Street.
We don’t want laws that legalize lawlessness
24. December 2019 - 16:59
Metropolitan Amfilohije: All that has been done on Earth against the name of God and the justice that radiates from that name - all that is lawlessness.
A protest gathering of the clergy and monastics of the Metropolitanate of the Montenegro-Littoral and Diocese of Budimlje-Niksic was held before the Parliament of Montenegro on the occasion of the beginning of а parliamentary session at which the ruling majority intends to adopt а discriminatory law on freedom of religion.
The Capital city of Serbia celebrated the jubilee of the Serbian Church
23. December 2019 - 16:36
His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch, and Deputy Mayor of Belgrade Goran Vesic attended on the solemn academy “Eight centuries of autocephaly 1219-2019”, organized mutually by the Serbian Orthodox Church and the City of Belgrade in the crypt of the Cathedral church of Saint Sava in Belgrade, on 21 December 2019.
His Grace Bishop Stefan of Remesiana, Vicar Bishop of Patriarch Irinej, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Serbia Ivica Dacic, Deputy Director of the Office for Cooperation with Churches and Religious Communities Dr. Marko Nikolic, representatives of the National Assembly and of the City of Belgrade, members of the City Council and Secretariat, representatives of the Serbs from Kosovo and Metohia, members of the diplomatic corps and numerous citizens attended the celebration of the jubilee.
Niksic Assembly in presence of the relics of Saint Basil of Ostrog
23. December 2019 - 13:50
“Even the Turks didn’t do what these ungodly people want. No way!”
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In Niksic, Montenegro, a great church-people's assembly was held on Saturday, 21 December 2019, when thousands of the faithful gathered around the relics of Saint Basil of Ostrog requesting a withdrawal of a draft of the discriminatory Bill on Freedom of Religion and Legal Status of Churches and Religious Communities.
The Feast of St. Andrew the First-called at Ráckeve
23. December 2019 - 12:27
On the feast of the Holy Apostle Andrew the First-called, December 13, 2019, His Grace Bishop Lukijan of Buda officiated the Holy Hierarchal Liturgy at the monastery of the Dormition of the Most Holy Mother of God – Ráckeve (Srpski Kovin), Hungary.
The Bishop was concelebrated by Archimandrite Andrei Pandurovic, abbot of the monastery; hieromonk Mitrofan Gajic, spiritual of the monastery of Grabovac; deacons Andras Solja and Stefan Milisavic, in the prayerful participation of clergy from surrounding places and nuns from the Grabovac monastery.
Patron Saint-day of Saint Nicholas church in Zemun
20. December 2019 - 22:48
His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch, officiated the Holy Hierarchal Liturgy in Saint Nicholas church in Zemun - Belgrade on December 19, 2019, on the feast of Saint Nicholas the Miracle-Worker
The Patriarch was concelebrated by Archimandrite Seraphim (Kužić), abbot of the Rajinovac Monastery, hieromonk Petar (Bogdanovic) from the Tuman Monastery, protopresbyter-staurophors: Ljuba Milosevic from New Jersey, Luka Novakovic from Philadelphia and Drasko Tepavac, presbyter Vladimir Prasic and deacons Vladimir Rumenic and Dragan Tanasijevic.
