Category: Featured News
‘Vaccination is the Free Choice of Every Person’ – Metropolitan Hilarion (Kapral)
Pic - Twitter OCP News Service - 21/09/21 Washington DC- USA: Metropolitan Hilarion of Eastern America and New York, the first hierarch of the Russian ... Read More
‘Claims by Constantinople to Special Privileges, Special Powers in the Orthodox Church, are Akin to the Papal Powers in the Roman Catholic Church’ – Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk
Pic - Wiki OCP News Service - 21/9/21 Moscow-Russia: “In recent years, we have encountered with the Patriarch of Constantinople’s claims to special privileges, special ... Read More
Consecration of the Newly Built Resurrection Cathedral Held in the City of Kokshetau – Kazakhstan
Pic - https://mitropolia.kz/ OCP News Service - 19/9/21 Kokshetau-Kazakhstan: The consecration of the newly built church in honour of the Resurrection of Christ in the ... Read More
OCA Orthodox Christian Youth Report 2020 – Now Available
Pic - https://pixabay.com/ OCP News Service - 19/9/21 New York - USA: The Youth Project Coordinator’s Report to the Metropolitan Council of the Orthodox Church ... Read More
“Where are you, Adam?” Orthodox Christian Film Premiere Held at the Splendid Palace in Riga
Pic - http://www.pareizticiba.lv/ OCP News Service - 19/9/21 Riga-Latvia: An Orthodox Christian movie titled "Where are you, Adam?" was premiered at the Splendid Palace theatre ... Read More
Finnish Orthodox Church to Host ‘Diaconal Workshop’ in Valamo (November 2021)
Pic - https://pixabay.com/ OCP News Service - 19/9/21 Helsinki-Finland: A diaconal workshop will be held in Valamo on the 16th and 17th of November 2021. ... Read More
Catholicos-Patriarch Mar Awa III Express Gratitude to Kurd Leader Masoud Barzani
Mar Awa III. Pic - https://www.facebook.com/assyrianchurch/ OCP News Service - 18/9/21 Kurdistan-Iraq: Catholicos-Patriarch Mar Awa III of the Assyrian Church of the East expressed his ... Read More
Orthodox Bishops Reject ‘Jihadist’ Claim by Uniate Catholic Prelate
Metropolitan Geevarghese Coorilos of the Niranam (L) and Yuhanon Meletius (R). Pic - Wiki OCP News Service - 18/9/21 Malankara-Kerala-India: Two Orthodox Christian Prelates, Metropolitan ... Read More
‘The State of Affairs in the Family of the Local Orthodox Churches is Cause for Great Concern’ – Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia
Pic - http://www.spc.rs/eng OCP News Service - 18/9/21 Moscow-Russia: A conference titled ‘World Orthodoxy: Primacy and Conciliarity in the Light of Orthodox Dogmatic Teaching’ conference ... Read More
The US-Ethiopian Bishops Urge End to ‘Diplomatic Pressure’
President Kennedy and Haile Selassie in 1963. Pic - Wiki OCP News Service - 18/09/21 Washington-USA: Nearly seven Archbishops and Bishops of the Ethiopian Orthodox ... Read More
New Children’s Book ‘The Kite, Eagles and the Saints’ Published in Bulgaria
Pic - https://bg-patriarshia.bg/ OCP News Service - 17/9/21 Sofia- Bulgaria: A new children's book titled 'The Kite, Eagles and the Saints' was published in the ... Read More
The British Museum May Return Looted Ethiopian Orthodox Artefacts
Ethiopian Priests carrying the Tabot. Pic - Wiki OCP News Service - 17/9/21 London-United Kingdom: The British Museum may return Ethiopian Artefacts (9 tabots) that ... Read More
Lordan Zafranović to Direct a Movie on the Horrors of the Jasenovac Concentration Camp
Lordan Zafranović and Maja Gojkovic with the Patriarch of Serbia. Pic - http://www.spc.rs/ OCP News Service - 17/09/21 Belgrade-Serbia: Patriarch Porfirije of Serbia received famous ... Read More
Church of Cyprus Recovers Looted Church Doors from Japan
St. John's Cathedral, Nicosia. Pic -Wiki OCP News Service - 17/9/21 Nicosia-Cyprus: The Church of Cyprus have recovered an 18th century Church door stolen from ... Read More
New Draft Resolution on the Ownership of the Cetinje Monastery Sparks Dispute
Pic - Wiki OCP News Service - 17/9/21 Cetinje-Montenegro: Cetinje town local council in Montenegro has discussed a new draft resolution calling the authorities of ... Read More
Metropolitan Mathews Severios Nominated by the Holy Synod as the Successor to Catholicos-Mooppan and Malankara Metropolitan
Pic - https://www.facebook.com/mseverios OCP News Service - 16/9/21 Kottayam-Kerala-India: Metropolitan Mathews Severios of Kandanad West has been nominated by Holy Synod of the Malankara Church ... Read More
‘Children Should be Taught the Importance of Cross’ Bishop Varlaam of Ploieşti
Pic - https://basilica.ro/ OCP News Service - 16/9/21 Bucharest-Romania: "Children should be taught how important the cross is in our lives and for the salvation ... Read More
Controversy Erupts in Georgia Over ‘Leaked’ Church Documents
Holy Trinity Cathedral of Tbilisi. Pic - Wiki OCP News Service - 15/9/21 Tbilisi-Georgia: A controversy has erupted in Georgian over the leaked 'Church documents' ... Read More
Malankara Nasranis Celebrate 109th Anniversary of the Establishment of Catholicate in India
St. Mary's Church, Niranam. Pic - Wiki OCP News Service - 15/9/21 Kottayam-Kerala-India: The Nasrani faithful of the Malankara Church (Indian Orthodox Church) celebrates the ... Read More
Georgian Ombudsman Charge Blogger, Orthodox Archpriest for Organizing Anti-Pride Rally
Zurab Makharadze. Pic - Alt Info Kincha/OC Media (https://oc-media.org/) OCP News Service - 15/9/21 Tbilisi-Georgia: Archpriest Spiridon and blogger Zurab Makharadze have been identified by ... Read More
Bishop Justin of Hvosno Consecrated Vicar of the Serbian Patriarch
Pic - http://www.spc.rs/ OCP News Service - 15/9/21 Belgrade-Serbia: Archimandrite Justin (Jeremic) was elevated as the Bishop of Hvosno and as the Vicar of the ... Read More