Orthodox Churches

Israelis will normally give the Holy Fire to Greece and the Orthodox Countries

Special consideration for the Holy Fire to reach the Orthodox countries that desire it has been given by the Israeli state, which despite stringent security measures seems willing to accept the special flights from Greece and other Orthodox countries, which take place every year to transport the Holy Fire in the temples.

Patriarch of Alexandria inaugurated new ecclesiastical museum of Patriarchal Monastery of Saint Savvas the Sanctified

On March 29, the Fourth Sunday of the Great Lent, Patriarch Theodore II of Alexandria and All Africa presided over the Orthros and the Divine Liturgy at the Holy Patriarchal Monastery of St. Savvas the Sanctified in Alexandria.

He also performed the memorial service for the repose of the soul of his mother Cleopatra, who passed away three years ago, and inaugurated the new Ecclesiastical Museum of the Patriarchal Monastery of Saint Savvas the Sanctified.

Divine Liturgy on Fourth Sunday of Great Lent at the Phanar

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew presided over the Divine Liturgy today, Sunday, 29 March 2020, on the Fourth Sunday of Great Lent at the Patriarchal Cathedral of St. George.

The Divine Liturgy was celebrated behind closed doors, due to the coronavirus pandemic, with the participation of some clergymen and laypeople of the Patriarchal Court. Metropolitans Stefanos of Kallioupolis and Madytos, Maximos of Silyvria and Bishop Benjamin of Traleon were also present.

Prayer for pandemic from Network of Ecumenical Patriarchate for Pastoral Health Care

The Network of the Ecumenical Patriarchate for Pastoral Health Care created a prayer asking God healing, protection, hope, and peace for the Departed.

The prayer is the following:

Nine Romanian monasteries are sewing bed linen sets for hospitals amid Covid-19 outbreak

In the new medical crisis which has reached Romania, nine monasteries from the Archdiocese of Iaşi, in the northeastern part of the country, offered to help hospitals. They have started making bed linen sets to be donated to local hospitals which are treating or prepare to treat Covid-19 patients.

Metropolitan Onuphry Delivers Ventilator and Protective Suits to Children’s Hospital in Chernivtsi

The primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry of Kiev and All Ukraine, and the founder of the charitable Protection of the Most Holy Theotokos fund, the People’s Deputy Vadim Novinsky, delivered medical equipment and protective suits to the children’s hospital in Chernivtsi yesterday.

“The primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church brought doctors a ventilator and personal protective equipment. The hospital previously did not have such a device,” the Information-Education Department of the UOC reports.