Honorary Patriarch Filaret was removed as Holy Synod member
7. February 2020 - 14:39
The Holy Synod of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine has decided to remove Honorary Patriarch Filaret as a member of the Holy Synod.
The Holy Synod of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine has made this decision following Filaret’s six consecutive absences from meetings of the Holy Synod and the unjustified refusal to participate in the sessions despite the written invitation he had received.
The 19th Annual Orthodox Youth and Camp Workers Conference in Phoenix, Arizona
5. February 2020 - 13:30
“Children are not our future – they are our present!”
By the grace of God, on the twenty-third and twenty-fourth of January, at St. Sava Serbian Orthodox Church in Phoenix, Arizona, Orthodox youth workers from various jurisdictions and the entire country were gathered at the 19th Annual Orthodox Youth and Camp Workers Conference. Participants of the conference were honored to partake in the six keynote sessions followed by table discussions. The conference consisted of four speakers and presenters: Fr. Josiah Trenham, Gabrielle Otte, Dr. Eugenia Constantinou, and Jonathan Ignatius Green.
Church of Greece: Voluntary abortion is a murder, we do not accept it
4. February 2020 - 17:07
The Standing Holy Synod of the Church of Greece, chaired by Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens and All Greece, met yesterday.
During the two-day sittings, the Holy Synod, taking into account the recent developments on abortion, “and based on the Bible and the Holy Tradition of the Orthodox Church of Christ, expresses its theological position on the fetus as a complete and integral human being since its conception and therefore, it considers voluntary abortion as a murder and does not accept it.”
Thousands of pilgrims in Saint Victor’s Crypt in Marseille
4. February 2020 - 16:38
The Divine Liturgy was performed today in the Crypt of St. Victor of Marseilles, at the homonymous Church, which was founded as a monastery by Saint John Cassian.
Patriarch Theodore of Alexandria visited the ruined church of Saint George in Karf El Zayat
4. February 2020 - 16:35
Patriarch Theodore II of the Alexandrian Church visited the ruined temple of St. George in Kafr El Zayat, after the Divine Liturgy at the Church of the Presentation of Jesus at the Temple, in Tanta, on Friday, January 31, accompanied by Metropolitan Nicodemus of Memphis, Patriarchal Commissioner of Cairo.
