Statement of the ACOB-USA Executive Committee Concerning Holy Week and Pascha (Easter)
Friday, April 03, 2020 PDF Version To the Clergy and Faithful Orthodox Christians of the United States of America: During this period of crisis, we...
Coronavirus
Patriarch Kirill bans Protodeacon Kurayev from religious activity
Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia has issued a decree banning Archdeacon Andrey Kurayev, a well-known blogger and theologian, from religiou...
The spiritual origin, nature, and meaning of the current pandemic. An interview with Jean-Claude ...
Jean-Claude Larchet, you are one of the first to have developed a theological reflection on disease, suffering, medicine. Your book “The Theology o...
Jean-Claude Larchet, you are one of the first to have developed a theological reflection on disease, suffering, medicine. Your book “The Theology o...
Orthodox Metropolis of Korea: ‘Prayer, whether it is done in the Church or in our home or in any ...
The Orthodox Metropolis of Korea (Ecumenical Patriarchate) has issued the following Encyclical urging the faithful to pray with due reverence and c...
The Orthodox Metropolis of Korea (Ecumenical Patriarchate) has issued the following Encyclical urging the faithful to pray with due reverence and c...
Appeal of the First Hierarch to the God-Loving Flock, in Connection with the Coronavirus Pandemic
Dear in the Lord fathers, brothers, and sisters! I sincerely greet you with the very warmest well-wishes for the blessings of God, good health, spi...
Dear in the Lord fathers, brothers, and sisters! I sincerely greet you with the very warmest well-wishes for the blessings of God, good health, spi...
Metropolitan of Nafpaktos: Some Hierarchs act as if there is no Holy Synod
On the occasion of the extension of the restrictive measures that also extend to the Church, as well as of the forthcoming session of the Standing ...
Greek Church petitions to be allowed to serve Liturgy, lawyers seeking to annul order to ban Chur...
Although the Greek Orthodox Church earlier agreed to limit its services to just one-hour Divine Liturgies on Sundays, the state was not content, an...
Metropolitan John Zizioulas: “The Church without the Eucharist Is No Longer the Church”
We wish to hear your views on the current situation, since your theology plays a great role in the present circumstances. Metropolitan John: M...
Assembly of Bishops USA Announces COVID-19 Resource Center for Orthodox Christians
The Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops of the USA announces an online resource center for clergy and faithful during the COVID-19 pandemic. The...
Georgian hierarch consecrates hospital serving as coronavirus quarantine zone
The Giorgi Abramishvili Military Hospital of the Ministry of Defense of Georgia in the city of Gori was declared a quarantine zone on March 2 as pa...
Communique of the Holy Synod of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church
“On the third week of Great Lent (Sunday of the Veneration of the Holy Cross) the Divine Liturgy was served in all churches of the Serbian Or...
Word of Consolation for the Pandemic, Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou
Many people are in confusion and others panic because of the threat of the Coronavirus epidemic that spread in the whole world. I think, however, t...
Urgent encyclical by Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople regarding Covid-19 pandemic
As this Coronavirus crisis continues to spread and intensify on a global scale, the Ecumenical Patriarchate is monitoring the situation with an urg...
Limited Church services without worshippers in Albania’s Orthodox cathedrals, chapels
The Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Albania, in similar fashion with other Orthodox Churches around the region, announced that cathedrals and chap...
Notice Regarding Ongoing Provision of Divine Services in Light of Various Government Restrictions...
In several portions of our Diocesan territory (Western Europe), temporary local government restrictions have been put in place that prevent group g...
Orthodox Church in Slovakia will be sanctioned if it continues to hold services amidst coronaviru...
Slovak Prime Minister Peter Pellegrini is ready to impose sanctions upon the Orthodox Church in the country if it does not comply with measures tak...
Church of Greece Holy Synod cites precautions in face of coronavirus crisis
The Holy Synod of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece convened on Monday, with sessions to continue until Wednesday, amid growing concerns ...
A Message from the Diocesan Bishop Regarding Church Life and the Coronavirus
“To the faithful and beloved children of this God-preserved Diocese! As we enter now fully into this lenten period leading to the bright Resu...
Chinese Representation Church in Moscow Serves Moleben for Deliverance from Coronavirus
A moleben prayer service for deliverance from the coronavirus epidemic was recently held at the Church of St. Nicholas in Moscow, which serves as t...
