Sunday, October 18, 2009

Ecumenical Patriarchate Archons Theofanis Economidis and Achilles G. Adamantiades, PhD delivered religious freedom presentations for the Ecumenical Patriarchate on behalf of the Order of St. Andrew, at Europe’s largest human rights conference, The Human Dimension Meetings of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), September 29 and 30. The OSCE is the world’s [...]

UKRAINIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH OF THE USA CONSISTORY OFFICE OF PUBLIC RELATIONS PRESS RELEASE The founders of St. Mary (Protection of the Birth-Giver of God) Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral in Allentown, PA began their immigration to North America at the end of the 19th century. Their deep spiritual nature, rooted in the thousand year old ties between [...]

The Bulgarian western city of Pernik accepted Saturday a particle of the relics of St. Ivan Rilski. The relic, placed in a special silver safekeeping case, was laid in the central Pernik church, named after the Saint, by the Abbot of the Rila Monastery, Evlogi and Bishop Yoan. St. Ivan Rilski is honored as the [...]

BELGRADE — Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will meet with the members of the Holy Synod of the Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) during his visit to Serbia. Belgrade daily Danas writes today that Medvedev is scheduled to meet with the metropolitans and bishops at the Patriarchate on Tuesday afternoon. The newspaper’s sources however said that there [...]