Moscow, June 30, Interfax – On Sunday, Ukrainian army shelled residential districts of Slavyansk again, St. Alexander Cathedral was under fire. “The shelling started in 10:00 a.m. during the Liturgy. People started…
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2014-06-29 Homily of H.B. Patriarch John X In the Holy Liturgy celebrated at Balamand on June 29th 2014 on the Feast of the Antiochian See “O Antioch lift up your eyes and…
Sloviansk, June 30, 2014 On June 29, in spite of the cease-fire agreement, the Ukrainian troops again shelled residential districts of Sloviansk. The St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral was shelled once more,…
Samara, June 25, Interfax – Russian specialists are helping to restore the St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in the Chinese city of Wuhan, Russia’s presidential envoy to the Volga Federal District Mikhail Babich…
The Patriarchs of Antioch (l-r): Patriarch Ignatius Joseph III Younan of the Syriac Catholics, Patriarch Mor Ignatius Aphrem of the Syriac Orthodox, Patriarch John X Yazigi of the Greek Orthodox, Patriarch…
At the Mass at St Peter’s on the Solemnity of SS Peter & Paul, Pope Francis conferred the Pallium on new Archbishops. Present was Metropolitan John (Zizioulas) of Pergamon, heading a delegation…
After the meeting of Pope Francis and Patriarch Bartholomew in Jerusalem, Metropolitan Nicholas of Mesogaia and Lavreotiki says no more “yelling with offensive tones against the West” (by which he means the…
Dr Eamon Duffy has summed up Mortalium Animos, Pius XI’s 1928 Encyclical On Religious Unity, which denounced ecumenism and false eirenicism, as an ultimatum to other Christians – Orthodox and post-Reformation Christians alike…
Through the looking glass: June 27, 2014 The head of the Russian Orthodox Church has awarded Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov with an order for “glory and honor.” Patriarch Kirill gave the…
27 June 2014, By Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service Crimean officials deny that a decree which will lead to a substantial rise in the rent the Kiev Patriarchate Ukrainian Orthodox Church…