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The Archbishop of America, His Eminence Elpidophoros, on Tuesday received Metropolitan Joseph of the Antiochian Archdiocese. The meeting took place at the headquarters of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America. The two Orthodox hierarchs discussed issues affecting the Orthodox flock in the United States.    

Greek Foreign Affairs Minister Nikos Dendias on Tuesday met in Abu Dhabi with his counterpart of the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan. Dendias is on two-day official visit to UAE, his fourth in his tenure as foreign minister.  

Greek president of the Republic Katerina Sakellaropoulou, on Wednesday received the visiting Metropolitan of Buenos Aires, His Eminence Iosif, who briefed her over the activities of the Orthodox Church in Latin America. The Diocese of Buenos Aires is under the Ecumenical Patriarchate and includes, beyond Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Chile, Paraguay, Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Suriname, Guyana…

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…