First official celebration of Elder Iakovos (Tsalikis) to take place in June
17. December 2017 - 16:00
The first official celebration of the recent glorification of Elder Iakovos (Tsalikis) of Evia will take place on June 3, reports Romfea.
The celebration will be held on the Sunday of All Saints, with the participation of His Beatitude Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens and all Greece and the members of the Holy Synod of the Greek Orthodox Church.
Priest of Russian Orthodox Church sanctifies shelter for homeless in New York
15. December 2017 - 16:29
The charitable foundation “Saint John Give Hope,” working closely with the patriarchal parishes of the Russian Orthodox Church in the United States and with the Orthodox Church in America, opened its own homeless shelter in New York. On November 11, the building was consecrated by the clergyman of the St. Nicholas Russian Cathedral Igumen Nicodemus (Balyasnikov).
Chechnya’s third Orthodox church to open in summer 2018
14. December 2017 - 16:01
An Orthodox church in the village of Shelkovskaya in the northeastern Chechen region of Shelkovskoy, construction on which began in April, will open for parishioners in the summer of 2018. The interior decorating work in the church will soon begin, assistant to the head of Chechnya Daniel Martinov reported to TASS yesterday. The church will be the third Orthodox parish in the republic which is 95% Muslim.
Guatemalan jungle church attracting non-orthodox neighbors
13. December 2017 - 17:46
The building of a new church structure in the jungles of Guatemala is well underway and drawing the attention and patronage of even non-Orthodox neighbors, reports Fr. John Chakos, a missionary for the Orthodox Church in Guatemala, on the blog “The Word From Guatemala.”
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk continues his pilgrimage to Mount Athos
13. December 2017 - 17:36
On 12 December 2017, in continuation of his visit to Mount Athos, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, officiated at the Divine Liturgy in the Cathedral of the Holy Annunciation of the Vatopedi Monastery, in which he had arrived the day before with a group of pilgrims. Concelebrating with the archpastor were Rev. Dimitry Ageyev, cleric of the Moscow Church of ‘Joy of All Who Sorrow’ Icon of the Mother of God; Rev. Anatoly Churyakov, DECR staff member; and the ordained brethren of the abode. The service was followed by a brotherly repast and the Rite of the Lifting of the Panagia.
