Your Eminences, Your Excellencies, Distinguished participants, Ladies and Gentlemen, We are honored to be with you and to participate in the G20 Interfaith Forum to urge G20 members to step up and respond effectively to the most pressing challenges of our time. We are grateful to the organizers for their kind invitation to address this…

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His Beatitude Patriarch John X, the Patriarch of Antioch and all the East, phoned His Excellency the President of the Lebanese Republic, General Michel Aoun, and the Lebanese Prime Minister, Najib Mikati, congratulating them on the formation of the government, wishing them success for the newly formed cabinet. He hoped for saving Lebanon from the…

The Vatopedi Publications has relesed the book “Holy Knowledge: The Beauty Within”, written by the Metropolitan of Nafpaktos, His Eminence Ierotheos. For more information, please visit the site www.vatopedi.gr  

Members of the US Congressional Caucus on Hellenic Issues, in a joint letter, called on the UN Secretary-General to take concrete action against Turkey over the Erdogan regime’s threats to open the closed-off Cypriot resort of Varosha. In the letter, official Turkey’s claims on Varosha are refuted in detail, while the letter underlines that Ankara’s…

Greece’s Parliament on Tuesday commemorated the memory of the victims of the Greek genocide in Asia Minor, as Sept. 14 has been recognized since 1998 as a day of remembrance of the annihilation of thousands of years of Hellenic presence in Asia Minor by Turkish nationalist forces in 1922.

The Archbishop of Cyprus, His Beatitude Chrysostomos, this week issued an ultimatum to clerics of the Archdiocese who have urged the faithful to avoid vaccination for the Covid-19 virus. The ultimatum expires at the end of the week. The Archbishop said that if these clerics do not issue a public apology, along with a written…

The Patriarch of Serbia, His Holiness Porfirije, on Monday arrived at the historic Monastery of St. John the Baptist at Jasenovac, located some 90 kilometers southeast of the capital of Croatia, Zagreb, for an event honoring the martyrdom of people killed at a WWII concentration camp there. The death camp was operated in the area…

The Church today venerates the Elevation of the Venerable and Life-Giving Cross. The Feast, also known as the Universal Exaltation of the Precious Cross, is celebrated each year on September 14. The Feast commemorates the finding of the True Cross of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ in the Fourth century by St. Helen, the…