HRH Prince Mihailo special guest at Children's summer camp 2010

As the Christmas and New Year Holidays draw near, it is time for all Serbian children living in Australia and New Zealand to think about attending Summer Camp at our St. Sava Monastery in Hall, New South Wales. Here, at our beautiful Summer Camp, the campers will have a chance to spend a week worshipping, praying, studying our Orthodox Christian Faith, learning to sing both church and folk songs, to dance Serbian dances, arts and crafts, sports, visitations to local sites and week filled with rich and rewarding experiences!

Ecumenical Patriarch receives the Prime Minister of Belgium

His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew received His Excellency Yves Leterne, the Prime Minister of Belgium, to the Ecumenical Patriarchate on December 30, 2009.

Before his departure from the Phanar, the Belgian Prime Minister toured the Patriarchal Church of St. George and finally said: "It was very interesting to visit the roots of the Christian faith in this region of the world. The Orthodox Church is one of those roots, binding together the whole society."

Source: www.archons.org

Holy Liturgy in Karaburma

With the blessing of His Eminence Metropolitan Amfilohije of Montenegro and the Littoral, locum tenens of Patriarchate throne, His grace vicar Bishop Atanasije of Hvosno, during the Divine Liturgy at the Church of Sinaxis of Serbian Saints in Karaburam,  awarded archpriests Radomir Radovanovic, the head of the church of St. Nicholas in Visnjica; Radenko Zivaljević, the head of the church of St. Stefan in Veliko Selo, and Ilija Rosic, parish priest of the church of the Sinaxis of All Serbian Saints in Karaburmi, with the right to wear the pectoral cross. Also, Bishop Atanasije, with the blessing of Metropolitan Amfilohije, awarded presbyters Milan Lucic, Rada Simic and Djordje Dragutinovic with a rank of protopresbyter.

First ever Divine Liturgy in Castelo Branco in Portugal

The first ever Divine Liturgy was celebrated by Archbishop Innokenty of Korsun in Castelo Branco, Portugal, during his pastoral visit to Portugal on December 23-27. Surrounded by dense forests, this city has seen only Orthodox prayer services. Sometimes there were evangelizing talks organized through the efforts of the Moscow Patriarchate community in Lisbon. The city is located 200 km away from the Portuguese capital. There are many Orthodox Christians, economic immigrants from Eastern Europe, who just as the locals are engaged in sheep breeding, horticulture and cultivation of olives.

Christmass Fair – 28.12.2009 - 5.1.2010.

On Monday, December 28, 2009 at 6 pm at the premises of the former department store "Kluz", in 4 Masarikova Street in Belgrade, His Grace vicar Bishop Atanasije (Rakita) will open Christmass Fair which will last from December 28, 2009 until January 5, 2010.

Formal reception of cadets at Patriarchate court

His Eminence Metropolitan Amfilohije of Montenegro and the Littoral, locum tenens of the Patriarchate throne, and His Grace Bishop Atanasije of Hvosno arranged on December 25, 2009 at Patriarchate throne a formal reception of cadets and senior officers of the Mllitary Academy, led by their head Brigadier General Dr. Mladen Vuruna.