The United States sees the Russian Orthodox Church as its adversary, Volokolamsk Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeev) was quoted as saying by Russian church media.
On the TV channel "Russia 24" the Metropolitan, who is the head...
On October 6, an international online conference "Spiritual Assistance of Hospital Priests (Chaplains) in Medical Institutions: Law, Psychology, Organization" will take place. Hospital chaplains, scientists, doctors, clergymen, government officials from Russia, USA, Germany, Italy,...
It is incorrect to claim that the principled refusal of the vaccine as such can be conditioned by the Orthodox faith. The choice in favor of vaccination or refusal of it is an individual...
His Holiness the Metropolitan of Sofia and Bulgarian Patriarch Neophyte received today Archimandrite Bartholomew, abbot of the Mount Athos monastery "Esfigmen", together with a group of monks from Mount Athos: monk Apostol from the...
A strong earthquake measuring 5.8 on the Richter scale shook the central part of Crete, Greece, shortly after 9 am this morning. The epicenter was at the town of Arkalohori, which for twenty years...
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew will visit the United States from October 23 to November 3. His visit was postponed several times, and it remained unclear until the last moment. But it is already known that...
Various commemorative events have been lined up to mark the 35th anniversary of the Marian Shrine. The events will run from Sunday, 24 October 2021, till 6 February 2022.
When Spanish Bishop Javier Novel resigned last month, the Catholic Church said briefly that it was a matter of "personal reasons."
It is now clear that Javier Novel has fallen in love with the author...
HRWF (09.07.2021) - On 27 November 2020, the District Court of Hamburg condemned FECRIS (European Federation of Centres of Research and Information on Cults and Sect) for defaming the general movement of Jehovah’s Witnesses...
ELSiA invites you to join webinar on LIFE programme
Following up from the Laudato Si’ Reflection Day 2021, the European Laudato Si’ Alliance (ELSiA) is organizing an ad hoc webinar to discover more about the LIFE programme,...
Jewish Americans tend to be white and although many participate, at least occasionally, in some traditional religious practices, they are less religious than the rest of the country, a Pew Research Center survey has found.
Shortly after the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea in the East (325) , the reaction of the Arians and semi-Aryans arose. Politically strong Arianism came on the scene, in the role of sworn enemy...
The Christian must strive for infinite moral perfection: "Be perfect," says the Savior, "as your Father is perfect" (Matt. 5:48). That is why he must be vigilant in his thoughts, feelings and actions, because...
In addition to a position with God, the Christian has a commandment to love one's neighbor as a creation and likeness of God. Christian love of neighbor requires from us an inner union with...
One of the Jewish scribes, wishing to test Christ, asked Him before the people, "Master, what commandment is great before the law?" And Jesus answered, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all...
A total of 19 Romanovs who were liquidated by the Bolshevik government were canonized as new martyrs for Christ's sake (victims of anti-Christian forces), first by the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad, later recognized as...
The problem related to ecology is not only to clean public places and beaches from garbage - this is the concern of local municipal authorities; economic problems are an aesthetic issue that presupposes the...
Card. Hollerich offers condolences on the passing away of former Nuncio to the EU, Archbishop Lebeaupin
It is with great sadness that we learned on Thursday 24 June 2021 about the passing away of Archbishop Alain Paul...
A cleric threw a bottle of sulfuric acid at several Greek metropolitans today at the synod palace at the Petraki monastery in central Athens, Romfea agency reported. He is a hieromonk, a clergyman of...
The autocephalous Turkish Orthodox Patriarchate, also known as the Turkish Orthodox Church (Turk. Ortodoks Kilisesi), is a Turkish nationalist denomination whose doctrine and worship are identical to those of the Eastern Orthodox Churches.
It was...