Next week we enter into the period often called Advent. This is the period set aside for us to prepare for the coming of Christ. Our way of preparing for the significant…
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Rome, November 08, 2013 (Zenit.org) | In preparation for the 80thanniversary of the 1932-33 famine in the Ukraine the country’s churches have issued a statement. The famine was part of the terror…
Encyclical of Archbishop Gregorios of Thyateira, Patron of the Society London, 1st November 2013 Dearly Beloved in the Lord, I take great joy in informing you of some wonderful news. Following the…
October was not a month of especial cooperation in the global Eastern Orthodox communion. Protesting the appointment in March of an archbishop for Qatar by the Church of Jerusalem, the Church of…
04 November 2013 The 10th Assembly of the World Council of Churches elected eight new presidents today during a closed session at its proceedings in Busan, Republic of Korea. According to the…
This is not the Europe that Bangeen imagined. Crammed in a disused carpentry school on the outskirts of Sofia, the 32-year-old Syrian Kurd has fashioned a tent from a white sheet and…
A valuable Eastern Orthodox take on Hallowe’en, for keeping at a Christianised former pagan Celtic feast of All Saints and All Souls, rather than let it slide back into paganism, the occult…
Serbian Patriarch Irenei has been in Indonesia lobbying local Islamic leaders in a Muslim power not to recognise the declaration of independence of Kosovo/Kosove, largely populated by Albanians, most of whom are Muslim, but…
With thanks to New Liturgical Movement: More photos here: New Liturgical Movement: Photos of a Newly Completed Serbian Orthodox Cathedral in Montenegro
“Around 2006, Golden Dawn used to attract something like 0.2% of the vote in the national elections. The emergence of Neo-Nazism in “the country that gave birth to democracy” seemed to most…