Eastern Orthodox Church

Amid growing tension between the Church of Greece and the government over changes to the way religion is taught at schools, Archbishop Ieronymos said on Friday that there are "some who do not love their country and want to de-Hellenize it, and some who don't love the Church and want to de-Christianize it."

The decision of Bishop Timotej of the Macedonian Orthodox Church, MPC, to attend the opening of a new Serbian Orthodox church in Bar in Montenegro has raised new hopes of a thaw between the two churches.

Bartholomew I of Constantinople, the ecumenical leader of the world’s Orthodox Christians, will visit the concentration camp at Jasenovac that was run by Croatia’s Nazi-allied WWII-era regime.

Greek-American TV personality Maria Menounos has been at the side of her mother Litsa, since she was diagnosed with a brain tumour. Maria recently attended the liturgy at Saint Nektarios Greek Orthodox Church in Los Angeles and prayed for the recovery of her mother.

The success of the first Holy Great Council of the Orthodox Church in over 1,200 years, which is scheduled for June 16-17 on the Greek island of Crete, has been threatened by the Bulgarian Holy Synod, which decided to boycott the summit at the last moment.

After an extraordinary meeting on Monday, the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople called on all autocephalous Eastern Orthodox churches, including the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, to participate in the Pan-Orthodox Council which is scheduled to take place in Crete from June 16 to 26.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has arrived at the northern Greek peninsula of Mount Athos, on a visit to the autonomous Orthodox Christian monastic community here.

Putin flew from Athens to the northern city of Thessaloniki Saturday morning, went by road near Mt.Athos and then took a boat - the only means to reach the community.

NEW YORK/SYDNEY/MOSCOW - Fires broke out in four Christian Orthodox churches around the world during the Easter holidays.

The Serbian Orthodox Cathedral of St. Sava in Manhattan, New York, was destroyed in a fire that broke out just hours after believers attended the Easter liturgy on Sunday.

Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) Patriarch Irinej has said it was "symptomatic" that four Orthodox churches burned on three continents during Easter Sunday.

The New York Post writes about "fears of a coordinated attack on the religion" in the wake of the fires in four Orthodox temples on Orthodox Easter Sunday.