Eastern Orthodox Church

The Standing Synod by Archbishop Hieronymus announced the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and Pope Francis would be making a joint visit to refugee hotspots in Greece on April 14 or 15. The head of the Greek Orthodox Church, Archbishop of Athens & Greece, Hieronymus made the visit of the two heads of the oldest Christian denominations public Tuesday.

The Serbian Orthodox Church has offered a prayer to God with the goal of stopping the rain and the floods in Serbia, the SPC website has said.

"Lord, You who gather the clouds from the ends of the land, stop it with your commandment and send fair weather to the land," the text of the prayer reads, and adds:

The head of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Neophyte, received the 2015 annual award of the International Foundation for the Unity of the Orthodox Peoples in Moscow on Wednesday.

Orthodox Christians are in danger of losing their lives if they publicly profess their faith in many countries, "especially those with Islam at the forefront."

Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic, who on Wednesday started his visit to Russia, said this for Sputnik ahead of his trip, warning that "Christianity must not once again be preached in basements."

Russian Patriarch Kirill was in Antarctica where he met with scientists at a Russian polar station, and prayed in the only permanent church on the continent.

The wooden Church of the Holy Trinity was built in the early 2000s, RT reported, publishing a video and photographs of the head of the Russian Orthodox Church "congregating with penguins."

Pope Francis and Russian Orthodox Patriach Kirill called for restoring Christian unity and preserving the traditions of Christianity in a historic meeting held in Cuba on Friday.

This was the first meeting between a pope and the head of the Russian church since the Great Schism of 1054, which resulted in the split of the Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches.

Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) Patriarch Irinej has said that he "has nothing against" the visit of the Roman Catholic pope to Serbia.

However, Irinej added that perhaps the conditions for that have not been met yet.

The Orthodox church of Saint Clement, which was built at least 1,000 years ago in Ankara and is the only Byzantine-era structure in the city, has almost disappeared among office buildings The only structure from the Byzantine era in Ankara, the Saint Clement Church, is about to disappear amid the city's continuing urban sprawl. 

It was an emotional celebration by a congregation of a few hundred of Orthodox Christians who gathered last Saturday, Feb. 6, in the recently restored 19th century church of Voukolos (the Shepherd) in the old neighborhood of Fournaradika (the Bakers' district). It is the only Christian Orthodox church still standing in Izmir.

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew has called a meeting – Synaxis – of the heads of Orthodox Churches around the world at the Orthodox Centre of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Chambesy, Geneva from January 21 until January 28, the Ecumenical Patriarchate announced.