Metropolitan of Vryoula: Chant the Salutations to the Theotokos from home every Friday
19. March 2020 - 20:51
МA circular was issued by Metropolitan Panteleimon of Vryoula on the occasion of the spread of Covid-19 coronavirus worldwide.
According to the announcement, he invites the faithful to intensify their prayer from home to Our Lady Vourliotissa and to the neo-martyrs Michael and Nektarios from Vryoula, hoping that God will hear everyone’s prayers and strengthen us in this trial.
Church of Greece: We unite our prayers every night from our homes against the coronavirus
17. March 2020 - 20:53
The Standing Holy Synod of the Church of Greece invites Christians to jointly pray from their homes every night, from 10:00 to 10:15.
In yesterday’s decision after the end of its many-hour meeting, the Holy Synod urges “our Christians to pray with us from their homes every night from 10:00 to 10:15 for the cessation of the disease and for strengthening the work of the doctors, nursing staff and scientists-researchers,” whom it gratefully thanks and blesses.As it pointed out, already in the Monasteries in Greece there has been an alarm of continuous prayer.
Test on Italian Pilgrim to Mount Athos Negative for Coronavirus
17. March 2020 - 14:12
A sample taken from an Italian pilgrim to Mount Athos has tested negative for the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, the AHEPA hospital announced on Monday. The 50-year-old Italian was sent to the COVID-19 referral hospital after he presented the symptoms (a cough and fever) of a suspected coronavirus infection. Based on the tests carried out, he appears to be suffering from an ordinary flu.
Bulgaria: Patriarchal Encyclical on Covid 19
14. March 2020 - 23:30
On 11th March 2020 His Holiness Patriarch Neophit sent Encyclical on Covid 19 and the church life according to the situation
To their Eminences Metropolitans, members of the Holy Synod of the Bulgarian Church:
Your Eminences,
Considering the epidemic situation in the country and having in mind the danger we are exposed to the virus of corona- COVID-19, in order to avoid the faithful to be infected I preventively provide the best possible staying in our churches,
Church of Crete: Human health is paramount
13. March 2020 - 12:50
“‘Human health is paramount; we call on believers to comply with the recommendations and instructions given by the official health authorities,’ as stated in the official announcement of the Ecumenical Patriarchate.”
This was stated to patris.gr by Archbishop Irenaeus of Crete and Metropolitan Makarios of Gortyna and Arcadia, who attended the meeting of the Holy Synod in the Phanar, and, as they noted, it fully endorses the decision of the World Health Organization regarding the coronavirus.
