If the draft law is adopted, the Church’s legal entities may face forced liquidation, as it will be impossible to meet the prescribed requirements within the set timeframe.
His Beatitude Archbishop Anastasios of Albania, who led the Albanian Church for 34 years, working tirelessly to rebuild it from the ruins left behind by the atheist government of the 20th century, reposed in the Lord on Saturday, January 25, at the age of 95.
The festival, held October 25-27, 2024, maintained its tradition of celebrating Greek culture while taking on new significance as a vehicle for community support.
Dozens of authoritative Greek abbots, elders, abbesses and their brotherhoods and sisterhoods have signed a new statement condemning the ongoing persecution of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) under His Beatitude Metropolitan of Kiev and All Ukraine.
The Archdiocese of Tirana called the faithful to gather at the Church of the Annunciation of the Theotokos in Tirana for a special Synodal Divine Liturgy marking the Archbishop’s name’s day.