Orthodox burial given to 193 Greek soldiers in Albania who died during war in 1940
25. November 2019 - 16:58
A Greek Orthodox burial was finally given to the remains of 193 Greek soldiers who died in Albania during the Greek-Italian war in 1940-41.
After 79 years, the bones of the soldiers who lost their lives while fighting for their country were covered with the Greek flag and placed in their own ossuary.
Over 1,400 New Testaments to be sent to Romanian soldiers abroad by Christmas
25. November 2019 - 14:48
The Romanian Patriarchate will give away 1,410 copies of the New Testament with Psalms to the Romanian soldiers abroad.
The New Testaments will be distributed in the near future through the Religious Assistance Section of the Ministry of National Defence, Fr. Ciprian Ioniţă from the Social-Philanthropic Department of the Patriarchal Administration told the Basilica News Agency.
Metropolitan of Austria in the parish of Saint John Chrysostom in Vienna
22. November 2019 - 13:13
On the occasion of the feast of the memory of St. John Chrysostom, Metropolitan Arsenios of Austria and Exarch of Hungary visited on Sunday, November 17, 2019 the German-speaking parish in Vienna and celebrated together with the faithful the memory of Saint Chrysostom, its patron saint.
New Skete of St. Anna opens in Kenya
22. November 2019 - 12:48
New convent has opened in the Diocese of Nyeri and Mt. Kenya in the Patriarchate of Alexandria.
“Welcome to the Skete of St. Anna. It is now complete and ready for nuns to settle in,” writes Bishop Neophytos of Nyeri and Mt. Kenya on his Facebook page.
Statement of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church
18. November 2019 - 9:37
On 17th October 2019, during a session of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church, a statement was adopted concerning the situation that arose in the Greek Orthodox Church after it convened on 12th October 2019 the extraordinary Council of Hierarchs on the Ukrainian church issue (Minutes No. 125).
Members of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church have acquainted themselves with the published in the mass media documents of the extraordinary Council of Hierarchs of the Greek Orthodox Church held on 12th October 2019, in particular, with the communiqué of the Council and the report of His Beatitude Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens and All Greece entitled “Autocephaly of the Church of Ukraine” containing a suggestion “to recognize… the autocephaly of the Orthodox Church of the independent Republic of Ukraine.”
