In 1647, the Puritans' attempts to ban Christmas and force shops to open on Christmas day lead to rioting in Ipswich, Oxford, Ealing and Canterbury where a wild game of street football prevented the Mayor from opening the market.
The decoration is just a form, a game, an attempt to get back the lost… Otherwise it is placed with hope; the hope is that it, the external festivity, will dispel the darkness in...
In the beginning of December, Pope Francis of Rome, during his meeting with Archbishop Jeronymos II of Athens and All Greece, uttered the words, which many perceived as apologies to the Orthodox for mistakes...
The European Commission has published a guideline proposing to replace "Christmas" with "holiday season" to draw attention to other religious communities. There was a violent reaction from the Vatican, writes PT. Pope Francis condemned...
Christian believers are showing signs of decline in both the United States and the United Kingdom, but in England and Wales latest figures from the Office for National Statistics show a marked fall in the number of people identifying as Christian
INTERVIEW: Primate of the True Orthodox Bulgarian Church, Metropolitan Sergius of Messembria (Moiseenko) on the reputation of the TOC, the problems of Synaxis and the "blue lobby". Part two
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INTERVIEW: Primate of the True Orthodox Bulgarian Church, Metropolitan Sergius of Messembria (Moiseenko) about his Church, its hierarchy and about his "secular" creativity.
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ECUMENICAL PATRIARCH BARTHOLOMEW OF THE IRON CHURCH: OTHER CHURCHES WILL RECOGNIZE THE AUTOCEPHALOUS CHURCH IN UKRAINE
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew hosted the Sunday Holy Liturgy on December 5, celebrated in the Bulgarian church "St. Stefan ”in...
Author: PROF. GEORGI KRUSTALAKIS
We live in a land of wonders, a land of divine madness, as the old man Porphyry said, and we are too weak to respond appropriately to what is happening here....
The Georgian Orthodox Church does not support compulsory vaccination against COVID-19, as everyone should have freedom of choice and this is an inviolable right granted by the Almighty, a new statement from the Georgian...
Saint Porphyrios (born 7 February 1906 in the province of Karystos - died 2 December 1991 on Mount Athos) is an Orthodox saint, celebrated on 2 December. He is one of the greatest Orthodox...
On December 8, 2021, Moscow will host the International Scientific Conference “Holy Wives of the Slavic World”, timed to coincide with the 1100th anniversary of the martyrdom of Saint Ludmila of Czech.
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Authorities in the neighboring Balkan state have effectively banned the Orthodox Church's traditional communion of believers with a spoon, Serbian media reported. From 1 December, religious communities in predominantly Orthodox Montenegro will be required...
The new measures have already entered into force due to the record growth of patients
The requirement for a green church certificate emptied temples in Greece. The country announced more anti-epidemic measures ten days ago,...
WEA Secretary General Expresses Solidarity with Eastern Orthodox Church, Laments Reconversion of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul
The International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church (IDOP) earlier this month served as a reminder that an...
The Directorate of Religious Affairs of the Kingdom of Sweden convenes an extraordinary crisis meeting in connection with an extensive journalistic investigation, published in four parts in the authoritative daily Gothenburg Post by a...
Former Chukotka Bishop Diomid (Dzyuban), a well-known "fighter for pure Orthodoxy" in the recent past, died on November 20 in a crash in the Leningrad region. Diomid, 60, died along with two other women...
The Orthodox Church will never recognize the cohabitation of people of the same sex as a marriage; for it, such coexistence of people will always be a special sin. This was stated by the...
The Metropolitan of Zakynthos Dionysios removed from office 14 priests who refused to be vaccinated on Saturday. The metropolitan issued a clear warning and asked everyone in the Zante diocese to be vaccinated. He...
The official six-day visit of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew to Athens has begun. It is carried out at the invitation of St. Synod of the Greek Orthodox Church, and the occasion is the celebrations organized...
On November 20, 2021, in the Catherine Hall of the Kremlin, a ceremony was held to present His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia with the highest state award/mark of distinction of...
On November 20, 2021, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia turns 75 years old. On that day, on the air of the Russia 1 TV channel, a large interview dedicated to...
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In an interview with Vatican News, Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, the President of the Commission of the Bishops' Conferences of the European Union (COMECE), speaks about his audience with Pope Francis, saying the...
Two Bulgarian metropolitans took part in an international conference at the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra on November 11, organized by the Kiev Theological Academy on behalf of St. Synod of the UOC (MP). The website of...
Pope Francis today called on arms manufacturers to stop doing so because the war "is engulfing the children of the homeland," Reuters reported.
The Holy Father celebrated a liturgy on Catholic Day to commemorate the...