Macedonia’s President Gjorge Ivanov on Monday attended a Christmas liturgy held at the St. Clement of Ohrid Church in Skopje. After the liturgy, he said he wished all the Orthodox believers ‘health, joy, happiness and unity.’ “Holidays don’t serve only for celebration, they are here to remind us about everything that has allowed us to […]
The Macedonian Orthodox Church has called on the citizens to decide according to their own belief on the referendum on September 30. The Holy Archbishop Synod of the MOC-Ohrid Archbishopric thinks that the citizens are politically mature and that they will exercise their democratic right of choice freely and in their own confidence in the […]
We are ready to do everything we can and according to the holy canons of the Holy Church to help our Orthodox brothers in today’s Macedonia, wrote the Synod of the BOC in the letter on the occasion of the 1000th anniversary of the Ohrid Archbishopric. In the epistle published on the Holy Synod of […]
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew is working intensively behind the scenes and is committed to close the Skopje church issue, says Stavros Theodorakis, leader of Greek party Potami. In an interview with Greek radio Alpha 989, Theodorakis says he asked the patriarch during his recent visit to Athens what will happen to the Macedonian orthodox church. “He […]
All Orthodox churches are marking Friday the day before the last of the Holy week – Good Friday – the day when Jesus Christ was crucified. According to the evangelic writings, on the day of the death of the God’s son the sky and the earth opened, the sun concealed itself and darkness fell over […]
The request of the Macedonian Orthodox Church (MOC) for the Bulgarian Church (BOC) to become its ‘mother’ Church and how it may affect the regional cooperation, good-neighborly relations and Macedonia’s position is a matter for the church authorities and their efforts for MOC’s autocephaly status, Foreign Minister Nikola Dimitrov says in an interview with the […]
