Paschal services in Pyongyang
17. May 2021 - 15:19
On the night of May 2, 2021, solemn divine services were celebrated in the church of the Life-Giving Trinity in the DPRK capital city to mark the feast of the Resurrection of the Lord.
Thomas’ Sunday at the Patriarchate
11. May 2021 - 11:02
On Sunday 26 April/ 9 May 2021 the Patriarchate celebrated according to the Book of Pentecostarion Thomas’ Sunday. On this Sunday the Church commemorates that eight days after His Resurrection the Lord appeared to His Disciples while the doors were locked in the Upper Room when Thomas was also with them. The Lord told Thomas “Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands, and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing” and “blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed” (John 20:26-29).
Order of Paschal liturgy published in Khmer language
9. May 2021 - 14:20
The Cambodian deanery of the diocese of Thailand, the Patriarchate Exarchate of South-East Asia, has published the Khmer version of the Paschal divine service including the Paschal matins, Hours and the Divine Liturgy. The translation was made with a blessing of the Patriarchal Exarch for South-East Asia, Metropolitan Sergiy of Singapore and South-East Asia and under the guidance of the secretary of the diocese of Thailand, Archimandrite Oleg (Cherepanin).
The project was coordinated by Hieromonk Paisius (Opate), rector of the St. George church in Phnom Penh. The rector of the St. Panteleimon church in Sihanoukville, Rev. Roman Postnikov, was responsible for the editing. The translation was drafted by D. Yu. Okhvat, the Khmer language and literature lecturer, Chair of the Philology of South-East Asia, Eastern faculty of St. Petersburg University.
Two communities, victims of OCU raids, celebrate Pascha in new churches
9. May 2021 - 14:45
Pascha 2021 has become special for two communities of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, who have been deprived of their churches seized by the ‘OCU’.
Eight Years Since the Kidnapping of the Bishops of Aleppo
7. May 2021 - 10:30
Beloved Brethren and Spiritual Children, Christ is risen! He is risen indeed! On April 22, 2013, same as today, our brothers the Bishops of Aleppo, Metropolitans Paul Yazigi and John Ibrahim, were kidnapped. To this day, their case, a real picture rather than a glimpse of the tragedy lived by the people of this East, remains the scar left by lies in the cheek of truth. Indeed, truth has been slaughtered by deception.
