An exact replica of the holy and miraculous icon of the Panagia Gorgoipikoos, or Quick to Hear, was conveyed on Monday to the Monastery of Panagia Theoskepastos of Sohos, in northern Greece, a glebe of the Holy Monastery of Docheiariou of Mount Athos. The holy icon was conveyed by the Abbot of the Monastery, Elder…

The Moscow Patriarchate’s Metropolitan of Volokolamsk, His Eminence Hilarion, this week expressed the Church’s heightened concern over the situation in war-ravaged Afghanistan, in the wake of the assumption of power by the extremist Taliban. The specific Islamist movement in banned in Russia. The head of the Russian Patriarchate’s Synodal Department for External Church Relations added…

Two days after violent protests by extremists in Montenegro attempting, unsuccessfully, to prevent the enthronement of new Metropolitan of Montenegro and the Littoral, His Eminence Joanikije, the Patriarch of Serbia, His Holiness Porfirije, emphasized in a media interview that “…that even people who accuse the Serbian Orthodox Church of engaging in politics know that this…

Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, His Beatitude Ieronymos, on Monday attended a commemorative event at the historic Monastery of St. Luke in the south-central prefecture of Viotia, organized by the Metropolis of Thebes and Levadia and dedicated to independence struggle national martyr Bishop Isiah of Salona.

A wildfire erupted on Tuesday on the semi-autonomous monastic community of Mount Athos, in northern Greece, and specifically in a remote and rocky spot near the Mikras Aghias Annas site. Dozens of firefighters have been dispatched to the area, with fire-fighting planes also assisting, in the face of gusty winds in the area.

The Greek government on Tuesday left open the possibility of expanding the obligatory Covid-19 vaccination framework to educators and clerics in the country. This prospect, in fact, may come up for discussion during the upcoming session of the permanent Holy Synod of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece, which is scheduled to convene with its…

The Church today commemorates the Forefeast of the Nativity of the Theotokos. Today is also the feast day of Sozon the Martyr.

St. John the Baptist Cathedral (Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia) in Washington, D.C., was blessed with the visit of two highly-revered wonderworking icons two weekends ago. For the first time in the parish’s history, the Kursk Root Icon of the Mother of God and the Hawaiian Iveron Icon of the Mother of God were…

On the eleventh Sunday after Pentecost, His Grace Bishop Siluan the Holy Hierarchical Liturgy at the Cathedral chuch of the Holy Great Martyr George in Cabramatta. Archimandrite Petar, archpriest Goran Cecez, archdeacon Petar Mrakic and deacon Milos assisted, while protopresbyter-staurophor Djura Djurcevic, the head of the Cathedral church, sang responses. -Our God is a God…