By Peter Anderson Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew gifts a cross to Pope Leo during his November 30-December 2 trip to Constantinople and Lebanon. (photo:Vatican Media) On October 22, 2025, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew presided at Vespers at the Church of St. George in Neochori (Yeniköy), near Istanbul. St. George is the Jerusalem Patriarchate’s embassy church (or [...]
By Peter Anderson The Greek Orthodox Monastery of Saint Catherine, located in the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt. The oldest continuously inhabited Christian monastery in the world is the Greek Orthodox Monastery of St. Catherine, located on the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt. It was built at the location of three extremely important Old Testament events. According [...]
By Peter Anderson Archbishop Anastasios of Tirana, Durrës and All Albania, died January 25, 2025, at age 95 On January 25, 2025, Archbishop Anastasios (“Anastas” in Albanian) of Tirana, Durrës and all Albania, primate of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Albania, died at the age of 95 from multiple organ failure following a viral [...]
By Peter Anderson Patriarch John X, the head of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch in Syria. On December 8, 2024, the Syrian government led by Bashar al-Assad suddenly and unexpectedly collapsed. The Assad family had ruled Syria through oppressive measures since 1971. The collapse occurred as the result of an offensive launched on [...]
By Peter Anderson On October 26, 2024, the XVI Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops of the Catholic Church issued its Final Document on the subject, “For a Synodal Church: Communion, Participation, Mission.” The Final Document is the culmination of a long process that began three years ago and [...]
By Peter Anderson Building of the Verkhovna Rada, the Ukrainian parliament. (Photo: Wikipedia) On Sunday, August 25, Pope Francis at the end of his Angelus address expressed his concerns about a law recently adopted in Ukraine. He stated: “I continue to follow with sorrow the fighting in Ukraine and the Russian Federation. And in [...]
By Peter Anderson Cathedral of the Moscow Patriarchate in Tallinn, Estonia Orthodoxy in the Baltic states of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia cannot be considered without reference to their large neighbor, Russia. The area occupied by the three modern states gradually became part of the Russian Empire during the 1700s. Russian control continued until the [...]
In October 2023, a Moscow Patriarchate court found Archimandrite Cyril Hovorun guilty of "perjury" for celebrating the Divine Liturgy with a bishop of the Ecumenical Patriarchate By Peter Anderson Archimandrite Cyril Hovorun at the Gregorian University, Rome, in October 2023. He teaches at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California, USA. He has been defrocked [...]
