US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, speaking on Tuesday at a hearing of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, underlined that President Joe Biden will raise the issue of Turkey’s activities in the eastern Mediterranean during his upcoming meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Responding to a question by Senator Bob Menendez, the chairman…

The Church today celebrates the Apodosis of Pascha, Holy Easter. Today is also the feast day of Cyril, Patriarch of Alexandria, who was born in the late fourth century. Apolytikion of Apodosis of Pascha Plagal of the First Tone Christ is risen from the dead, by death, trampling down upon death, and to those in…

His Beatitude Patriarch John X has received His Eminence, Metropolitan Leonid, Archbishop of Vladikavkaz and Alania from the Russian Church, accompanied by Archimandrite Philip, the Representative of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia to the Patriarchal See of Antioch in Lebanon, in the presence of the Abbot of Our Lady of Balamand Monastery, Archimandrite…

The wooden house used as the monastery church in the filming of the famous Orthodox movie The Island (Ostrov) burned down yesterday. “The house that was filmed in Pavel Lungin’s The Island went up in flames. The building couldn’t be saved—the flames quickly spread and destroyed the wooden structure,” reports karelia.news. The building stood on…

Next year marks the 130th anniversary of the parish community of Chicago’s Holy Trinity Cathedral (Orthodox Church in America), the city’s oldest Orthodox Christian community. In honor of the occasion, the historic cathedral is undergoing large-scale restoration thanks to a sizable grant from the city of Chicago’s Landmarks Department, reports the Diocese of the Midwest…

On June 8, 2021, His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America received His Eminence Metropolitan Joseph of the Antiochian Archdiocese to the headquarters of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America. Orthodox Observer

On Friday, 11th June, on the occasion of the commemoration of the glorious Saint Bartholomew the Apostle, a day on which His All-Holiness our Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew celebrates his nameday, a multi-Hierarchical Divine Liturgy (starting at 7:00am) will be celebrated at the Cathedral of the Annunciation of the Theotokos in Sydney, presided over by His…

The Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy & Great Monastery of Vatopedi, remained intubated at an Athens hospital’s ICU unit for a sixth consecutive day on Wednesday. The Elder Ephraim’s condition was described as stable, without any deterioration discerned, according to attending physicians. The beloved Elder was admitted to the Evangelismos Hospital on…

Dear Friends, Christ is Risen! Truly, He is Risen! We pray that this newsletter continues to find you and your loved ones well, safe and in good health. Within the past months, much work has been undertaken by our Department and its partners to create spaces for and lend our own voices to instruction and…