On Tuesday the 16th/29th of August 2013, the Spiritual Center of the Bethlehem Pilgrimage was officially inaugurated. The Center is set up at a residence near the Basilica of the Nativity, and the Central Monastery of the Greek Orthodox…
HOLY CITY OF JERUSALEM, 22-5-2012 Your Beatitude, It is sincere privilege and profound honour to greet our esteemed guests and my fellow pilgrims of the Order of Saint Andrew to this historical and hallowed pilgrimage in the Holy Land…
November 29, 2011 It is with feelings of great joy that we greet today the 10th General Assembly of the Council of Churches of the Middle East. The Church of Cyprus, and we personally, welcome to our island, with great…
Al-Salaamu ‘Aleikum, “Εἰρήνη ὑμῖν!” I greet you all in Peace. Peace is not just a word for greeting or a word signifying the absence of war. It is something more than a simple word. The notion of Peace is signifying…
Between the 22nd of June / 6th of July and the 23rd of June / 7th of July, the Swedish Christian Study Centre (SCSC) located nearby David’s Gate, organised an International Conference on the Christian presence and its heritage in…
On Monday the 2nd of May 2011, during the visit of the Armenians to the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate, on the occasion of the feast of Easter, His Eminence Metropolitan Nourhan has addressed His Beatitude Theophilos III, Patriarch of Jerusalem with…
December 29, 2010 On Wednesday, December 16th / 29th 2010, the Leaders of the Christian Churches of the Holy Land visited the Presidential Mansion of the State of Israel on the occasion of the New Year, as has been custom…
Jerusalem, Monday, November 22, 2010. Your Beatitude, Five years have passed since the assumption of Your duties on the Throne of the Mother of Churches. During the time of Your Patriarchy our Directorate of the Patriarchate’s Website was created which…
Within the framework of his two day visit to the State of Israel and the Palestinian Authority, the Prime Minister of Greece, His Excellency Mr. George Papandreou, visited the Patriarchate of Jerusalem on Wednesday, the 8th / 21st of July…
The Archbishop of Canterbury of the Anglican Church the Most Reverend Dr. Rowan Williams, a scholar and writer, well disposed towards Orthodoxy, has visited the Holy Land again. Previously he had visited mainly with the aim of aiding the residents…
